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Below we have a video of a very progressive thinking guy. Taking the asphalt road that we have been taking for granted all these years and replacing it with a newer, very 21st century technological, power producing, solaricious road. The idea is to take glass, that is as hard as steel and place solar panels under the glass. That way the road, that is just sitting in the sunlight all day now becomes a power-plant taking electricity to you and your neighbors doorsteps, for free..well until the power company finds some way to charge you for it.
In the video he talks about how they plan to put LEDS in the panels to light up the roads, and give dynamic warnings to drivers, as well as make the pieces weathers, shatter and slip proof. Problem is that I can’t see power companies really enjoying the thought of their billion-dollar business going the way side for free power. I for one would love to see something like this because you know the web will spring up with hundred of ways to hack into the grid for the free energy. I enjoy the idea of taking all of these technologies and combining them into new, innovative and useful applications. With the impending loss of loss fuels, oil and energy derived from rocks we find in the ground, humanity needs progressive thinkers that are willing to take risks and push forward to harness the powers that we have around us for the free use of energy, that is clean and green. If we hope to ever get off this rock and explore the universe before our sun explodes or we kill each other, getting this world more energy efficient is a must and this is a great idea…plus when we get hover/flying cars we can just have normal glass since we won’t be going 80 over it and smashing into one another all the time. Kudps to this guy! Check out the video below.
~ Cannoli ~
The study, that was headed by Dr. Ian Stephen, showed that with five additional portions of vegetables per day to ones diet, that over the course of 2 months participants skin had a much healthier and radiant glow. The research isn’t anything too revolutionary, but it went something like this:
1) Get willing participants
2) Have half of them double their fruit/vegetables.
3) Observe how Carotenoids (which are found in high volumes in RED vegetables and fruits) affect the skin.
4) Get participants a tan.
5) Ask strangers to judge them. (best part)
If the research could be photographed it would look something like this:
The face in the middle shows the woman's natural color. The face on the left shows the effect of sun tanning, while the face on the right shows the effect of eating more Carotenoids. Participants thought the Carotenoid color looked healthier.
Brilliant piece right? It works by creating strips of colors, then uses verticies on the color strips, then your brush pushes the verts around and creates art. You can manually edit the verts or rely on the brushes to do all the work. Manually change colors, change sizes and push your piece until it’s perfect. If creating isn’t really your thing you can “Watch” the art. Which is a cool feature that takes what looks like the 10-20 most recent pieces of art and warps them into one another using the verts and changing the colors. People have created some really phenomenal pieces using Viscosity such as this piece:
Tonight I went to visit a lovely young lady that somehow agrees with me on the point of my awesomeness. After a quick cup of coffee we made our way to the bar next door, where eventually her friend Jason showed up. Jason is a local tattoo artist here in Phoenix,AZ. Long story short I drove them back home and got a tour of their house…err studio. This is where I wish I would have had my camera as it was so incredibly cozy! Open-face brick, wood floors, and trippy art all over the room created a really warm and surprisingly not cluttered feeling. After the tour of the Tattoo room and his backyard metal working/painting lab Jason handed me two pieces of art to decorate my bare-ass place in Seattle seen here:
Pretty rad huh? That being said, if your into Tattoos and live in Phoenix, AZ you should check him out. He’s got some great work, in fact, you should look at on his portfolio site….
http://web.me.com/jasonlouiselle/Site/Welcome.html
His studio will make you feel at home and he’ll kick you ass at Wii Sports before you get your half sleeve, and maybe a friend will make you some Chicken Soup to distract from the pain. Check out his actual Tattoo work below, enjoy:
For lyrics that will stimulate your cortex while you spiral down Greydon’s Vortex you should give this a listen. The album is available for free to listen on his site and if you enjoy it why not throw 8 bucks his way to support his efforts? Follow the link for some wavelength stimulation of your A-Spot. Cheers!
Sounds dirty, but looks cool
Augmented Reality has become exponentially more popular in the last few years. It seems like a daily occurrence that I log onto one of the many blogs I visit and see something that has an Augmented Reality component to it. I found this and 1) Found it fucking awesome, 2) Needed to post it. What your going to see in the video is that they are using shock-wave lengths from taps on the arm to interact with a display that is projected on your arm via a small projector and computer strapped to your bicep. The technology could be used to make display screens on phones obsolete or revolutionize MP3 player control input. For example, you could do such actions as skip songs or pause/play by touching fingers together or clenching a fist. Expect to see more and more technology like this as we get further into 2010. I’ll say it now, 2010 is going to be the year of technology integration away from a monitor and into the environment. I expect to see something revolutionary this winter to early next year that will become the standard on how we interact our technology (though the touchscreen pretty much did that with the DS and the iphone ie: we’re still tapping on our arm).
Minority Report may be Reality Soon
Everyone remembers the scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is manipulating the interface in front of him with a pair of gloves and gestures. Well the folks over at MIT have been working on this sort of thing for about 20 years now and are finally in beta! The chief engineer on the project was actually the science consultant on the movie…which makes perfect sense. The only problem with the whole thing is that it will take up an entire room of your household (if you want or you can get a scaled down single user interface) meaning that spare bedroom just because reserved. The project had formed into a company called Oblong industries and they plan on going commercial in the next few years. Observe the video below and get blown away (it’s older footage of the interface which is now called g-speak)
Learn About Sex through Play
I’m all about educational games, but this is just crazy. How Middlesex-London Health Unit decided this was a good idea is beyond me, but the game Sex Squad had been officially released as a sex-ucational game to teach kids all about sex with terrible characters that will most likely offend someone. (the midget black guy clearly has the largest package….come on!)
In the game you choose one of the four characters above Wonder Vag, Willy the Kid, Power Pap or Captain Condom (from left to right) to fight against the ex-Sex Squad member Speminator. The turmoil begins when Sperminator, who contracted an STD (or STI as the Brits call them) that turned his arms into Penis’, evil genius like decides to infect the entire city with various STDs by shooting semen from his hands/penis tips….I wish I was making this up.
As you answer questions about SEX the Sperminator (who looks like a luchador) shoots his “evil sperm” at your face, but if you answer the questions right e a large red condom shield deflects the infected excretion right back at his face….sigh. If, on the other-hand, you answer questions wrong your character gets a glob o’ mangoo to the face and exclaims such gems as “eww, that’s sticky” or “I need a shower!”. Once you have managed to answer enough questions right to Shieldom(?) enough malicious jizz to cover the Sperminator’s face in goo, he is some how instantly cured and rejoins the SS (sex squad) devoid of penis arms and ready to against protect against STDs….WTF ARE WE TEACHING KIDS!
Test Your Sex-Q (Play the game)
Samurai Destroys Kool-Aid
This is one hilarious T-Shirt design. It combines two things that I love, feudal Japanese warriors of honor and the death of one obnoxious drink. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but this only needs one. PERFECT.
Samurai vs Kool-Aid (only $24)