A light-hearted animation (done as an ad for V water) – if only there’s someone up there taking care of my life like this, smoothening every crease and catering to every whim…
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Reactogon – New Music Visualizer
Hot on the heels of music and new ways of visualizing them – here’s reacTogon, a multi-touch music arpeggiator. Watch the video to find out how it works!
Pimp your Logo
‘Pimp my Logo’ takes on user-submitted logos (vector) and turns them into what-he-claims-is cheesy 3-second animation (the kind you see at the end of an ad or a short clip). And he (she?) does it all for free! Too bad the submissions are closed already – but you can still check out some of the reels that he has already done!
Brilliant Mirror Prank
Just stumbled upon this clever and hilarious prank:
The mirror in the toilet was replaced by a window pane. The gray lady’s identical twin is in an identically set-up room on the opposite side, mirroring her every move. Everybody who walks in gets very confused.
Sherlock Test
There are 21 continuity errors in this short clip that tests your observational skills – how good are you at paying attention, o Sherlock-wannabe? I totally failed this – couldn’t see any at my first try, and even after I saw the whole clip and re watched the video, the changes are still so hard to spot.
I’d never be a good detective.
[Ad from DOTHETEST]
Thai Commercial
Thais are well-known in the region for their creativity in advertising – I’ve covered some of the funny and touching ads, and they’re also no stranger to ads that play more like a short movie. So here’s yet another:
Amazing Gear Heart
Wow, this is simply an incredible motion sculpture. Initially it looks like it’s simply a heart composed of carved gears of various proportions coming together to form a shape – but when the motion starts magic happens, as gears of various ratios engage each other in a most harmonious way.
If you look closely enough you’d also notice that on each gear the spacing between the teeth are also varying to accommodate for the variation due to turning. It must have taken gazillion tries (or, genius mathematical calculation) before the gears can be totally in sync – and even reform back to the heart shape after a few cycles.
Magnificent!
Touchscreen moves out of the Screen
While the world’s ooh-ing and ah-ing with Microsoft Surface some time ago for its engaging and intuitive interaction, researchers within the campus are moving on to yet another interesting interface – touch control but out of the screen.
Called SideSight, the interface allows you to control a phone placed on a table by wiggling your fingers in the space around it. This helps to solve the problem that a touch screen is limited by the need for fingers to touch it – thereby limiting how small the screen can go.
Personally I see application of this more outside of the phone though – how often do you place a phone down on the table? But think about things like ultramobile laptops and stuff – a virtual trackpad if you will – and things start getting more interesting.
[via New Scientist]
Magic Wand
Mmm… cool toy! Cool science behind – check; Easy to use – check; Effects that make others go WOAH – check!
“Todays magic is tomorrow’s science”… as we always say here at ThinkGeek. Now you can get a bit of magic for yourself with this amazing Fly Stick Van de Graaff Levitation Wand.
This battery powered wand features a mini Van de Graaff generator inside. Push a button on the handle and the static charge built up in the wand causes the included 3D mylar shapes to levitate at your command. You can also do some cool tricks causing the shapes to jump back and forth from your hand to the wand. Not quite Harry Potter… but hey, we do our best for you.
Get it at ThinkGeek or at Amazon.
Floating Ladle
Saw this design of a ladle and thought it was quite interesting – there is a hollow ‘ball’ at the stem. Due to the hollow ball the ladle always floats on the water surface, very much like buoys on the sea. This way, you can just leave the ladle in the liquid (think fruit punch tumbler) without worrying about dripping or even having to hang on to the side of the container. An added bonus will be the ease-of-washing when doing the dishes.
Here’s how it works:
