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NASA’s New Deep Space Rocket Is Simply Amazing [Video]

shaun — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:14:20 +0000

Artist Liu Bolin must have slain a lot of dragons and evil ninja skeletons in magic Chinese catacombs, because his invisibility powers keep getting better and better. His last batch of camouflage photos are simply awesome. Images via Bored Panda More »

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See The Amazing Mechanical Pac-Man In Action [Video]

shaun — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:14:25 +0000

Jonathan M. Guberman, creator of the previously featured Automatypewriter—a typewriter that plays Zork—is working on a new project, a playable, fully mechanized Pac-Man cabinet. This is our first peek, the Pactuator, a hand-cranked, fully geared Pac-Man. More »

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It’s more than meets the eye with the Montblanc TimeWriter 1 Metamorphosis

othertech — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:09:30 +0000

Montblanc is a pen company. They do watches as an aside, some sort of weird cross-marketing thing that presumably they’ll use to convince watch lovers to go and pick up some pens. However, they have truly outdone themselves with the TimeWriter 1 Metamorphosis.

Ariel at ABlogtoRead found the full details on this watch but, in short, when you pull down a lever the entire face changes. One face, with the lever up, shows the time and date. When you pull the lever you release a single-push chronograph. While the technology isn’t that impressive, the presentation is amazing. Watch the video about and fast forward to about 5 minutes to see how it works.

The process of changing the watch is longer than you would expect. First you need to press the monopusher chronograph button in the crown, then slide the lever on the left side of the case. The process actually takes about 15 seconds. So much of what you get is watching the process take action. There are two hidden plates in the watch that act like a double scissors. These “close” and the upper and lower dials are covered over with grayish plates. At the same time the lower dial actually moves down like a little elevator. Internally the watch is going mad with gears and changes to make sure everything works properly. This is not a sport watch my friends, something that you are wise to be delicate with.

The watch is 47mm wide and runs an MBM16.29 movement with a power reserve of 55 hours. Amazing stuff but I worry, like Ariel, that it’s a gimmick. It looks a lot like Montblanc is trying to get attention by being clever, and, as we all know, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. Pricing, shall we say, is not published.

OK Go’s amazing Rube Goldberg music video

othertech — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:38:18 +0000

So you thought OK Go was a one trick pony, right? They did the old treadmill trick and we were all like “Wow! Amazing!” but take a look at this action. These guys basically recorded this in a single shot, arriving in their places with just as all sorts of crazy things happen.

Seriously: color me impressed.

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Utterly amazing music video shot on a bunch of webcams

othertech — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:42:09 +0000

Japanese band Sour has made a music video for the ages. Shot with actual fans performing concerted actions on webcams, this had to be one of the most difficult editing jobs in history. My mind blew a couple times. Utterly insane on Yooouuutuuube as well, as a commenter points out.

This’ll be a great thing to show your family and friends over the weekend. Excellent job, guys.