As part of an advertising campaign for Hot Wheels, a construction crew in Bogotá, Colombia, installed a giant fake loop track on a bridge for you to dream about.
via Neatorama
… Read More → "Giant Hot Wheels loop track appears on bridge"“The box comes with different color coded RFID tags that can be linked to point to certain music on Spotify. Once it is setup, place a tag on the device and it will play that playlist or search, remove it and it will stop. The two small buttons are used to skip to the previous and next track and the big wheel where the tags are placed rotates to control the volume.
“Commodore USA released a set of “sneak peek” images today of its prototype of a brand-new Commodore 64. One of the most beloved home computers of all time–and part of the group of machines, including the Commodore Vic-20, Atari 800, Apple II and IIe, and Commodore Amiga, that forever changed the way people interacted with computers.”
via cnet
“Texas Instruments is buying National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion. That brings together two of the largest and oldest companies in the semiconductor business, and it means that TI will have a huge share of the analog chip business.” via Venture Beat
… Read More → "Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5B"Check out some of these fun April Fools’ pranks here and here.
… Read More → "The best online April Fools’ pranks of 2011"“The MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer is a breakthrough in 3D printing technology. The Thing-O-Matic prints thing after thing, it’s completely automated! You hit print and the machine does all the work. Want to print 100 butterflies? Easy. Want to print an entire chess set? No problem. Buy it, assemble it, and enjoy being the first on your block to live in the cutting-edge personal manufacturing future of tomorrow!” from the Read More → "MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer kit"
“UNSW researchers have unveiled the microchip which is expected to power Australia’s first bionic eye.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step … Read More → "Bionic eye closer to human trials with invention of implantable microchip"
“The intricate mechanisms of the human mind are endlessly fascinating. We’ve previously explored various facets of how the mind works — from how we decide to what makes us happy to why music affects us so deeply — and today we’re turning to when it doesn’t: Here are five fantastic reads on why we err, what it means to be wrong, and how to make cognitive lemonade out of wrongness’s lemons.”
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Check out the Legotron, Mark I.
Details of the camera and the build here.
… Read More → "A medium format camera made from Lego blocks"
