Stadium Dubstep article tells that someone handed over the keys to Century Link Field in Seattle and allow these folks to have fun with the lights in order to get them synced to M83’s Midnight City. The result is amazing. Watch the Midnight Lights – Super Bowl Dubstep video to see the result yourself.
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Super Bowl Dubstep
Friday, February 17th, 2012Iron Sky Theatrical Trailer
Friday, February 10th, 2012Iron Sky is a science-fiction comedy film from the makers of small funny budget science-fiction comedy Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005). Production of Iron Sky began in early 2006. I have met the film makers (they are from Finland) at Assembly computer festival when they talked about their forthcoming production some years ago. The idea of the film production sounded ridiculous at the time: from low budget amateur film to huge international production based on ridiculous sounding plot featuring space nazis from the dark side of the moon invading earth. It sounded like wow this has got to be the stupidest movie ever.
It seem that production has progressed well, and now they have the full movie ready. Iron Sky world premiere is February 11 20120 at Berlinale movie festival in Berlin Germany (they sold out huge 1700 people theater). The movie is expected to be theaters April 4 2012.
Look at the Iron Sky Official Theatrical Trailer. Believe this is actually a movie. It looks quite professional and pretty funny (look at who is the president of USA in film). What to expect from the actual movie based on this: is that it is going to be either be very funny or total crap.
Arduino-powered glove
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Carnegie Mellon HCI students bring your favorite action hero sound effects to life. Arduino-powered glove brings real sound effects to your make believe gun show article tells that a team from Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction course have built a glove that does some interesting tricks.
AHRG: Augmented Hyper-Reality Glove video gives you the idea how thing works:
The Augmented Hyper-Reality Glove can identify upper-cuts and karate chops using flex and tilt sensors and play the accompanying sound effect using an Arduino-powered Adafruit wave shield.
Holiday videos
Friday, December 23rd, 2011Finish IT magazine Tietoviikko has a nice selection of Christmas videos for developers in the Kehittäjän kanavan jouluvideoerikoinen article. Take a look at those videos (you don’t need to understand the Finnish text on the article to enjoy them). Happy holidays.
25,000 Angry Christmas Lights
Friday, November 25th, 2011What do you get when you take Angry Birds and Christmas lights? 25,000 Angry Christmas Lights video shows that you get 25,000 Christmas lights pumping to the Angry Bird Theme song covered by Pomplamoose.
The video description tells that the lights don’t actually go on until after Thanksgiving. This video is shot at a middle of the night test run according to the video description. More information on this light show can be found at http://www.listentoourlights.com/
Useless Machines
Friday, September 30th, 2011The Most Useless Machine EVER!
Somebody has also made a LEGO version useless machine
Write only memory
Friday, September 23rd, 2011Write-only memory has been one of the best practical jokes on the electronics industry field.
Write-only memory (WOM) is the antithesis of read-only memory (ROM). By definition, a WOM is a memory device which can be written but never read. The WOM concept is most often used as a joke or a euphemism for a failed memory device.
An engineer at Signetics, frustrated by the long and useless sequence of approvals for data sheets (during which no actual checking occurred), once made up a spec for a “Write Only Memory” (a “WOM”) and sent it along with a batch of other data sheets to be approved. The WOM data sheet went through the approval chain, just fine, and wound up in Signetics’ new products catalog at 1970’s. Only after customers began asking for price and delivery. Signetics shortly printed up new “corrected” databooks, without any WOMs, and asked for the “erroneous” ones to be returned.
About 1974, Signetics bought a two-page, full-color spread in the April issue of ELECTRONICS Magazine, and published the WOM data sheet, as a (rather expensive) April Fool’s Joke. The data sheet is quite funny reading even today.
Video coat
Friday, September 16th, 2011Friday special: Groovy Video Coat video I found on Internet:
More details on electronics can be found on Groovy Video Coat pictures and this Video Coat Prototype video:
Stupid Robots
Friday, September 9th, 2011Ever worry that robots are getting a little too smart? Thankfully, some people are dedicated to keeping our metal friends dumb.
Bacarobo, the Stupid Robot Championship, is a showcase for just such robots. The contest originated in Japan (running in 2007 and 2008) before moving to Hungary in 2010. The competition has three main rules: the robots must operate automatically, they must be useless and they must be funny.
Smiling electrical outlet
Monday, August 15th, 2011I visited Denmark in summer. This is normal grounded mains outlet I saw there. It looks just like a smiling face.
