ANDREW SPOONER

1931 Western Television Advertisement – dancing girls and novelty programmes – has nothing changed in 80 years?

Spooner — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:53:32 +0000

Cheap too.

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Real life Wipeout – Quantum Levitation / Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (MagLev)

Spooner — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:46:33 +0000

“Fake!” I hear you cry. That’s what I thought, especially as the above video has comments disabled, however, the next video goes some way to explaining how this could be possible.

To understand how this works, take a read of the Meissner effect and diamagnetic (ism) over on Wikipedia. Essentially, when you cool something to very low temperatures (that’s what the liquid nitrogen is for) certain materials transition to a superconducting state and that’s when it creates an equally opposing magnetic field (which makes it hover).

I still think there’s a bit of CGI going on there though. If not, I want one for Christmas. Ok?

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Coming soon…Reeeboooooound Rumble! Robot Wars meets Harlem Globetrotters

Spooner — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:41:22 +0000

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Goldfinger Title Sequence. Incredible projections.

Spooner — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:16:43 +0000

I must have seen this film half a dozen times and heard the soundtrack many many more than that but I’ve never really stopped to appreciate the incredible projections onto the painted gold skin in the titles. Looks truly awesome, don’t know how I missed it before.

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Phonotropes Rock – Making of the “Holy Flying Circus” Title Sequence

Spooner — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:33:28 +0000

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4.8 miles on Mars in 3mins – Time Lapse of Mars Spirit’s entire journey

Spooner — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:11:56 +0000

Turn the volume down, the music is well dodgy. This video is composed of 3,418 frames taken by Spirit’s front-right hazcam played back at 24 frames per second. The images are either 1024 x1024, 512 x 512, or 256 x 256 pixels.

This time-lapse covers 4.8 miles of driving over the course of 5 years, 3 months, 27 days.

Images Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
6 frame per second version –

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I’m looking forward to Little Printer from those clever chaps over at BERG

Spooner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:21:43 +0000

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

bergcloud.com/2011/11/29/announcing-little-printer-and-berg-cloud/

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#UX advice – The Problem With QR Codes (via @rocket_panda)

Spooner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:57:09 +0000

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I. Want. One. Air Swimmers – RC Flying Shark and Clownfish

Spooner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:47:55 +0000

http://airswimmers.com/

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Beautiful vortex art (via @jamesalliban)

Spooner — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:00:51 +0000

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