Today’s favorites / R-Echos
Alistair McClymont has a nice serie of picture which made me think about sudden disparition and magics - at the intersection of reality, legend and fiction: transfiguration, those kinds of instant when reality is blurred away.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/alistair-mcclymont/
With the launch of the first african telecom satellite, the regionnal countries hopes to develop coverage in the more rural zone of the continent, which were so far neglected by traditional cellphone carriers. My hopes are accompanying the project.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/first-african-satellite-launched/
The real time representation of oceans activities is using wave and wind data from Port Taranaki in New Zealand, webcams from Pt Chev Tamaki New Zealand and San Luis Obispo California and the rss feed from oceanconserve.org
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/t2-by-andrea-polli-is/
The idea of bridging the wikipedia gap for the mobile community is a nice application: iPodia is a Wikipedia viewer for your iPod touch. With this application, you can view articles in an optimized layout, find certain text in the article, and save the article as a data URL for offline reading.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/wikipedia-for-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch/
This electric plane amazed me! and me think that some Blade Runner flight scenes could soon be possible. I would love to go to my studio with a small plane…
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/worlds-first-electric-airplane/
This system for screen calibration seems to do quite a pretty good job - I am wondering when this technology would go mainstream: how long does it need for a brilliant idea to get ingeneered, marketed, produced and sold?
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/if-you-thought-that-was-good-look-at-this/
Sustainability and energy efficiency; I like the way this building will use humans body to produce an economical heating system.
The recomposing structure reminded my RE-structuration drawings I should post on assembling.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/architecture_93/
Since drawing robots always pinged my attention, i could not refrain myself to add it to the R-Echos.net selections. This one use talcum powder to print.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/printbot-gets-creative-with-talcum-powder/
Some people developped excellent skills at making their desk perfectly clean - I should try too using this black hole.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/black-hole-for-my-junk/
Roomba packaged EULA could be funny if it was not a consumer hijack: retsrictive EULA are kidnapping end user and restricting curiosity, intelligence and liberties. This one even forbid you to read it - you are not even able to know if you agree or not.
http://r-echos.net/2008/01/07/worst-yet-agree-to-eula-inside-or-dont-open/