Time-lapse videos of major cities are nothing new. A time-lapse video of the capital of the world’s most secretive country? Now that’s impressive. Be sure to check out the Vimeo page where producers JT Singh and Rob Whitworth discuss how they were able to produce the video given North Korea’s tight media controls.
Sledgehammer Games has begun releasing details of the multiplayer version of the forthcoming instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, Advanced Warfare — likely to the be year’s best-selling gateway to real-time pubescent misogynistic yelling. Among the key points: As expected, an EXO suit will overcome the pesky limitations of playing a human being in […]
Thanks to GaS reader Florian Liedtke for sending us a link to this video he produced for a university project. It’s his take on how the League of Extraordinary Gentleman should have gone, complete with a revised cast list.
Turkish inventor Mustafa Karasungur has come up with a genuinely lethal creation: a robot that delivers 25,000 volts to anything in its path. Thankfully it’s not intended for use on humans, but instead as an extreme form of scarecrow to stop bears attacking crops. That said, Australia’s Channel 9 News, which spotted the story from […]
MAJOR spoiler warnings on this one.
In the latest of its Lego takes on iconic Lords of the Ring scenes, Brotherhood Workshop explores the question “Why didn’t the Fellowship use the eagles to fly into Mordor?”
An engineer has told a hacking conference how he turned a cat and a dog into tech weapons: the former to make a point and the latter for a prank. Gene Bransfield of Tenacity Solutions discussed his work at the DEFCON event and then followed up with an interview with the Guardian. His first project, […]
American Gentry Stein’s winning performance in the 1A (single Yo-Yo string tricks) category of the 2014 World Yo-Yo contest in Prague: [Via: Neatorama]
ThinkGeek is selling a 20oz ceramic stein with an embossed map of Westeros. Why so big? Well… There are drinking games to go with everything. For Game of Thrones, the drinking game is this: when some character you love dies, take a drink. Oh, wait. We’re gonna need a bigger cup… It’s got the capacity […]
cloud piano from david bowen on Vimeo. This installation plays the keys of a piano based on the movements and shapes of the clouds. A camera pointed at the sky captures video of the clouds. Custom software uses the video of the clouds in real-time to articulate a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys […]