Croatia-based photographer and video editor Tomislav Safundžic takes us on a stunning trip through space as we travel around planet Earth in his time-lapse video titled This Is Our Planet. The photos used in this video were pieced together carefully from images shot on board the International Space Station.
The automatic road patcher resides on a trailer which is towed behind a service vehicle at 5 km/h. Cameras mounted near the front of the device detect cracks down to 3mm in width using an array of LED lights to guide the way. Once a fault has been detected, nozzles mounted under the trailer blast the road with liquid tar to seal the crack before it becomes a real problem.
via Hack a Day.
Nervous about that presentation or client demo?
Say something goes wrong; your client doesn’t notice, but you realize it was a close call that could have ruined the presentation. Don’t just walk away relieved. Think through what you could have done–and add the solution to your mental shelf.
Close calls are like gifts, because they let you learn painlessly.
How to be graceful under pressure
Thanks (Missing Link)
What a fantastic video from Toyota – “nothing soft gets in”.
So you want to grow your own vegetables and don’t have much space? How about setting up a small hydroponics system at home. It’s actually far simpler, cheaper and cleaner than you would imagine.
This guy in Singapore shows us how to do it on Instructables.
What started as a bunch of photo’s to remember how to put everything back together ended up as a fantastically beautiful stop motion video of the process of stripping and rebuilding a used motor. 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee!
Anil Dash gives us some great food for thought about appstores and the inevitable direction they’re heading.
…I know there’s an entire class of applications that centralized services don’t create. Every day, a dozen different people at Google or at Facebook or at Twitter say to each other in a meeting, “Well, that’s a great feature, but only one percent of our users would want it, and it’s super compute-intensive, so let’s just table that for later.”
Unless some enterprising and generous engineer devotes their slack time to creating the feature out of sheer enthusiasm, those ideas die. Not because of merit, but because we have no option in between intermittently-connected, low-bandwidth personal devices and centralized megaservices with unified, homogenous feature sets.
No two people’s smartphones have the same functions, thanks to app stores. Everyone’s web sites have the same features, even despite platforms like Facebook’s apps, because those apps have to live within the constraints of what Facebook permits and can support.
Go read the whole thing, as usual, he’ll make you think.
via Anil Dash.
So this looks like an interesting storyline for a movie. Retired thief and his “pet” robot go back to thieving. Looks like fun.
via kottke.org.
…if you like Star Wars.
Seriously, Gotye has just done a parody remix of “Somebody that I used to know” that is incredible. Listen carefully to the words of this remix.
A six seat plane slowly rotates end over end, held aloft by two steel beams in the art installation “How I Roll” byPaola Piva (video). Presented by the Public Art Fund, the installation is on display at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in New York City’s Central Park through August 26.
via Laughing Squid.
