NMAP have visualised the 288,945 most popular websites (according to Alexa) in the world using their favicon — that’s the little picture that appears by bookmarks and in the address bar. Google dwarfs the competition. I’d like a bit poster of this so help me spot our site!
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I blogged about Kinect — or Natal as it was know back then — a little while ago. The technology is truly amazing, it watches how you move, listens to what you say and understands you… it’s a massive advance in interaction and leaves everything else dead in the water. Even better it’s available for you to buy this this November for your Xbox 360. This is futurist technology that you’ll be able to own very soon. Peter Molyneux presented the first live demo of Milo to TED and the video of the talk is now live. It’s an interesting listen and shows how Kinect has the potential to create new experiences. The animation looks fantastic too. I might have to get an Xbox 360!
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Continuing with giant theme for today is a new website by the BBC that allows you to superimpose events, places and things on different parts of the world to compare scale. Want to see how big the Glastonbury Festival would be in Guernsey, or scale of Pakistan’s floods? How Big Really allows you to do that and truly appreciate the scale. I think it works particularly well in Guernsey due to our small size and clear geographic boarders
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Pylons draping their power-lines across the landscape is not something we have to worry about in Guernsey, but if we did I’d want ours to look like these. Still at the conceptual stage I’m not sure they’ll ever get made — there must be a lot of structural and performance considerations — but I think someone should try.
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Want a new drink every three days (well nearly) for a year? Yeah? Then you need the new Freestyle vending machine from Coke. It has a whooping 104 flavours to choose from. I’d like to be able to truly ‘freestyle’ and mix flavours like a carbonated fizzy-pop DJ. Or you could buy a SodaStream, they’re back, and make any flavour you want.
Hidden deep within the DeepZoom powered 70 billion pixel photo of Budapest is the above plane. When zoomed out it’s not even a pixel is size such is the scale of the world’s largest photo. Take a close look here to truly appreciate the scale.
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Mr Doob has created a new browser based drawing experiment. This time you can collaborate with other visitors and create a masterpiece. Images spontaneously appear before your eyes, and partnerships are formed as you help other users with their creations. I helped user XXXL draw a face, they did the eyes and the nose and I aided by drawing the hair. There was no discussion, no planning, no permission, it just happened. It’s fun and feels nice, but be ready for someone scribbling over your pictures.
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I love my cat, but I want my next pet to be a robot. The top contenders at the moment these floating creatures by robot gods Festo.
They have grace and a wonderful organic movement as they explore their surroundings. Watch the videos below and you’ll begin to think that robots don’t have to be hard edged, impersonal things… Read more
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This project combines several offices favourites, Lego, foosball, computers and small furry rodents! The custom built table uses Lego WeDo sensors to automatically update the score after a goal and the balls tumble down a cleverly designed ball return mechanism. One of the benefits of using Lego is you can change the team kit, in the above photo we can see a team of Dutch builders — however the official ITSF say no hats are to to be worn whilst playing table football. Be sure to check out the video that’s filmed in super slow motion after the read more link.
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