Aleph: Reorganizing Vision is a “kinetic reflection display system” by Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer. It is basically a matrix of car mirrors hooked up to motors that shift individually. Cameras are used to analyze the environment, locating the lights and darks to be reflected toward the viewer. The mirrors are essentially pixels at this point, and images can be created by the matrix.

This is brilliant, and the concept is still in its infancy. With enough funding and development, there are some exciting possibilities here. Imagine the side of a skyscraper where the reflective windows shift, and the light recognition is sensitive enough to create multiple levels of light and dark. The entire building could pulse with visual energy. It could even be used for ad space. I hope these guys can get the resources to see this idea through. For more info, check out the project site.

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Gotta love design that is simultaneously geek and sheik. Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy created these curtains that use ASCII-Code to create the tree image. You see, ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. (Thank GOD for Wikipedia.) Comparisons between the digital world and plants is nothing new, but this is a rather attractive application.

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I purchased a Wii recently and making Miis is tons of fun.  Today I went to MiiPlaza.net to see what some other folks have been creating.  I nearly shat a brick when I came across these beauties.  If you haven’t gathered, the left is Space Invaders and the right is Duck Hunt! Keep in mind, these were created using a relatively short list of facial features only.  These are brilliant and there are many more to see!

MiiPlaza.net is a fantastic way to not only see a ton of great Miis, it is also a great way to make Wii friends.

If anyone is interested, my Wii number is 2216 5971 0086 7268.  You can comment with yours, or email it to me!

Ever since watching a long ago episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that dealt with nano-bots, I’ve been fascinated with nano-technology. So when I came across the pictures below, they kind of blew my mind.

I’ve known that we were capable of building true micro-machines for some time now but I had no idea of the microscopically small scales that have been reached. For instance, check out the comparison of the nano-machine to a dust mite in the picture below and realize that the teeth on the gears in these images are about the same size as a red blood cell.

I’ve been thinking that true nano-technology was a thing of the distant future, but if these images tell me anything, it’s that the future is now.

Go to the site below for more info on the MEMS Technology used in the creation of these amazing tiny machines as well as their uses in the world around us.

[MEMS Technology]

When I was a kid I absolutely loved Legos.  A testament to this is the fact that after having been out of my parent’s house for almost 10 years, they still find the occasional Lego around the house.  Anyway, check out this really cool interactive flash tour of the Lego-making process. The coolest part to me is how automated it is, there appears to be almost no actual human action involved in making these things.  That’s both cool and scary.

[Making of a brick]

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The coolest new thing in a long list of inventions I wish I had thought of is the Solio.

Yeah, cool huh?  But what does it do?  The Solio is a solar powered charger for all your little electronic doohickeys (ipods, cell phones and whatever since you can get adaptors for pretty much everything).   Basically you charge the Solio up by placing it in a sunny spot (like a window, the Solio has suction cups), and it saves solar energy so you can use it later to charge up your fill in the blank.  You can also plug your whatever into the Solio and charge it up directly from the sun.  Look at the pics below of the Solio in action and then click over to their site to read all the specs.

[Solio]

So you drive up to your CarLoft and the lift recognizes your car and automatically takes you to the correct floor. This is pretty cool, unless someone steals your car. Really nice site too.

[www.carloft.de]

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Check out the picture above. It’s a very nice panoramic shot of Sydney harbor by night, but nothing to write home (or in this case the whole world) about, right?

Wrong. Look at the pictures below.

These are close-ups of different areas from the zoom-able photo above. Any area in the original picture can be blown up and still retain this level of detail.

The left pic shows an underground car park from the far left of the original image, the middle pic shows some diners in a restaurant from the middle, and the rightmost picture is the detail from the bottom of the bridge’s support structure.

Scott Howard’s zoom-able panorama above has a total resolution of 720 megapixels (or 40,000 x 18,000 pixels) and is comprised of over 150 individual photos which took almost an hour to take. The total file size is 1.3 Gigabytes. Lest you think Scott Howard is the most patient man on earth, I will let you know that a program called AutoPane Pro was used to composite all the photos. For some reason though, I still think I’d have a hard time doing this with my camera phone.

Click on the link below to go to the site and zoom away.

[Scott Howard Photography]

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Maybe I’m old-fashioned or something, but the concept of being able to take detailed photos of Earth’s geography from space just blows me away. Especially when I see images like those at the Space Imaging website. The pictures below are of the Krakatau volcano and the Denali National Park (in that order in case you were wondering). Click the link to see more pics, and wander around the site for loads of cool high-res space imagery.

[Space Imaging]

Have you ever tried to play tetris on your cell phone and gotten fed up with the tiny screen and lack of detail? Well, here’s the answer for you.

1. Fly to Paris
2. Find the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
3. Stand in front of the Tower T2 and dial +33 (1) 44 24 73 50
4. Play Tetris on the side of a building

The windows of the Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France have been transformed into a huge computer screen, courtesy of lamps placed behind the windows of the building. The building shows ever changing lights shows consisting of random images and graphics but at anytime you can dial in from your cell and play games on the “screen”.

Tetris, Pong, Breakout and a simplified version of Pac-Man are all available, so if that cell phone screen isn’t cutting it….you know what to do.

[Tetris: Larger than Life]

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If what you need is new home builders
rather than building blocks then it can be a good idea to contact more than one

remodeling contractor to get price quotes and get a feel for how your home builder or remodeler might treat
your house. Also, the specialty of the firm can help you choose, like deciding between a home improvement contractor and a home builder.

I think most of us are pretty bored with the Moon. But seeing these pictures have made the moon cool again for me. Very cool stuff.

[http://moonpans.co.uk/vr]
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