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Because why not. You might as well have the absolutely fully branded coffeeshop experience, with printable latte art. Print on the branding, for maximum hipster! Ripples is an ingenious mix of an inkjet and a 3D printer, using tiny little coffee drops to make up an image. How it works: With the Ripple Maker you’ll […]
Read MorePicture credit: Germain Lussier San Diego Comic Con rolled into full swing last weekend. Unlike many of the other Comic Cons elsewhere in the world, it was, as usual, a massive event that attracted thousands upon thousands of fans of comics, films, pop culture and more. Shows like Game of Thrones often trot out the […]
Read MoreGoogle’s artificial neural network is having some seriously weird dreams. These images are all created through Google’s image recognition neural network, taught to identify things such as buildings and animals in photographs. Then the program is asked to modify the image to emphasize the feature. At a low level, the end result looks like a […]
Read MoreThese immersed biospheres – effectively underwater greenhouses – are 20 feet underwater, anchored offshore in Italy, taking advantage of the sea’s constant underwater climate to grow crops. ‘Nemo’s Garden’ is an ingenious idea, if not yet commercially viable on such a small scale, housing plants like strawberries, basil and lettuce. Crop growth rates, apparently, are […]
Read MoreIn Japan, manhole cover lids are quite often feats of urban design: intricate and beautiful. For more photographs, check out photographer S. Morita’s flickr page. Why are the lids so intricate and beautiful? Amusing Planet explains: The trend started in the 1980s when Japan wanted to standardize their sewer system. Until then, Japan used regular […]
Read MoreNot convinced about drones? Check out these winning photographs from the 2015 Drone Aerial Photography Contest. Sponsored by heavy-hitters like National Geographic, Adobe and GoPro, the contest received over 5,000 entries from drone photography enthusiasts. Some of our favourites: A well deserved 1st Prize Winner – Above the Mist (Category: Places) by Ricardo Matiello: See […]
Read MoreLast week, US inventors Megabots Inc challenged Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a giant robot duel, in a dramatically patriotic video with helpful Japanese subtitles. Because: “[Y]ou have a giant robot, we have a giant robot. Let’s fight.” Yesterday, Suidobashi Heavy Industries accepted their challenge, raising the ante by suggesting that the fight be melee combat, […]
Read MoreThe 2015 Cannes Lions is over, and here are the Film and Film Craft winners: effectively the best ads of 2014 and 2015. Which are your favourites? Our favourites of the set are Geico’s brilliant ‘unskippable’ ads. Congratulations on a Grand Prix in Film! About the Cannes Lions The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity […]
Read MoreSadly no, it’s not Yoda, but a great illustration from a 14th Century medieval manuscript, the Smithfield Decretals. See more medieval monsters at the British Library’s blog. (Also, that beautiful blackletter calligraphy!) From the Telegraph: Stuart Freeman, the British make-up artist who first created the look of the character Yoda for the 1980 Star Wars’ […]
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