Microsoft unveiled the world’s largest Windows Phone yesterday at NYC’s Herald Square, and it stands a massive 55-feet tall. This behemoth is comprised of “enormous tiles [that] display video feeds transmitted from a control room, and move out of place to accommodate live stage performances.” Click here for more pictures. Continue reading for two videos.
Graphic designer Taras Lesko wasn’t able to create a life-sized Gundam robot, so he did the next best thing, build a 7-foot tall model with paper. It weighs 10-pounds, consists of 1250-parts, and took 720-pages of paper. Click here for more pictures. Continue reading to watch an incredible time-lapse video of the build.
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Ever wonder why the case in Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers movie is so limited? Well, the had to keep certain characters, like Vision, out due to their powers. Continue reading to see what happens when Vision confronts the crew about this.
That’s right, NASA researchers are currently developing a working tractor beam — “a ray of laser light than can trap and pull objects in the opposite direction of the beam.” One of the methods involves “optical tweezers”, or in other words, two counter-propagating rings that “create a kind of ring-like geometry that confines particles inside.” Video after the break.
The second technique uses optical solenoid beams that spiral around the axis of propagation–just picture a spiral laser beam that can pull particles in the opposite direction of propagation. It does this via electromagnetic effects caused by the laser, and thus requires no atmosphere.
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A treehouse was probably on your wishlist as a child, but now that many of us have grown older, there’s still nothing wrong with chasing that dream. This modern version was designed and built by architectural firm Baumraum and is located in Munster, Germany on a real private garden. Continue reading for more pictures.
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Similar to the 404 error pages, the Twitter Fail Whale by Yiying Lu basically illustrates “eight orange birds using a net to hoist a whale from the ocean captioned ‘Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.'” Click here to see a few fan-created illustrations. Continue reading to see a young man’s struggle against the pressures of Twittering his life away.
Thanks to the internet, advertisers have to get even more creative with their ads in magazines, so many of them have turned to creative two-page spreads to capture your attention. The MacBook Pro advertisement from a few years back is a prime example. Click here to see more.
How about a cell phone that’s capable of being twisted at will and boasts a transparent form factor to boot? Introducing the Nokia Twist. This cell phone “explores the promise of nanotechnology and emotional interactions in a dynamically flexible device that goes beyond being just another touch screen.” Video after the break.
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Why waste a perfectly good photograph with boring poses and smiles, when you could defy gravity, like performance artist Li Wei? All of these incredible images were created with the help of wires, mirrors, rope, and plenty of acrobatics — Photoshop later used to remove extra artifacts. Continue reading to see ten more examples.
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