After a failed petition to the U.S. government to build a Death Star, someone has taken up the cause to fund the construction project using the popular crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter. Thankfully, to help keep costs down and to help make the project a reality open source hardware and software will be used. Along with “enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.” I can’t wait.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461687407/kickstarter-open-source-death-starOpen Source Death Star Kickstarter
Daft Punk to Release New Album ‘Random Access Memories’ May 21st
This morning, around 3:00am ET, Daft Punk sent out a press release stating their new album “Random Access Memories” is expected to hit stores on May 21st, 2013. The album is now available for pre-order through iTunes and I have already placed my order.
Snow
I always felt like snow made the world quiet. In that twilight hour everything stops and the only thing you can hear is the soft fluffing of snow blanketing the…
Edit Your Neighborhood in OpenStreetMap
Sick of the errors in the new iOS 6 Maps app? Consider adding or updating OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSM is a crowd-sourced world map, think wikipedia for maps, that can easily be edited once you create a free account on their website. OSM is one of the data sources used for generating what you see in the iOS 6 Map app.
The Space Shuttle is Silently Obliterated in the latest Gravity “Detached” Movie Clip
Anticipation is rising for director Alfonso Cuarón’s newest movie Gravity. We’ve written about the film before but I had to share this amazing sequence that was shown during the San Diego Comic-Con.
Superman Wears a GoPro Camera and We Get to Fly Along!
Remember the great music video filmed in first-person view? Here’s a similar short film from Superman’s point of view created by CorridorDigital.
Create 3D images with help from The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has created a fun and interesting resource for 3D aficionados. The library is allowing their online audience to create 3D images using archived stereographs. This site…
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