The world’s first chocolate 3D printer is now available for purchase.
3D chocolate printers can directly produce 3D chocolate objects without using expensive molding tools. It can also deposit complex and artistic 2D patterns onto other foods or substrates similar to a chocolate chef pipes chocolate onto cakes, dishes, deserts, etc. The 3D chocolate printer can be broadly used to make creative, artistic, personalized and decorative chocolate products and gifts.
Kickstarted funded and then some. Here’s hoping this comes to fruition. It’s got an API to make apps, I’d love to make a sleep monitor with this
Clean, simple design, virtually logo-less. I’ll have to get my hands on one to see if it’s rugged enough to replace my old standby, the Timbuk2 Classic Messenger.
Opensource eclectic animation by Bleeple.
Download the Cinema 4d Files here: http://beeple-crap.com/resources.php
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Reminds me of Holi, the Indian festival of colors.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
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Update: Feynman on Beauty
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
– Bertrand Russell
Photographs from ISS the stitched together into a fantastic short video.
This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
As CPU clock speeds start to level off, researchers have noticed that another power law has appeared in the electronics industry: power efficiency doubles every 18 months.
If you look at any human endeavor that enjoys the benefits of the application of tremendous amounts of determined brainpower, the metrics by which that endeavor is considered a success have a tendency to obey power laws. The periodicity of each, however, varies from field to field. See Kevin Kelly excellent research on the subject of Moore’s Law and air speed records. Processor power efficiency is the key now that portability is of the utmost importance and the rate of growth of battery storage capacity, while itself is also obeys a power law, the chemical nature of the endeavor leads to a much longer doubling time. This leads to all sorts of fun facts such as:
Imagine you’ve got a shiny computer that is identical to a Macbook Air, except that it has the energy efficiency of a machine from 20 years ago. That computer would use so much power that you’d get a mere 2.5 seconds of battery life out of the Air’s 50 watt-hour battery instead of the seven hours that the Air actually gets. That is to say, you’d need 10,000 Air batteries to run our hypothetical machine for seven hours.
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