Posts filed under “Bits und Bytes”

receipt racer

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The receipt racer combines different in and output devices into a complete game. It was made during the "Let’s feed the future workshop", part of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona on June 8th 2011. [Direkt] [via rvlt]

The Beginning Of Computer Music (1986)

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Schnieke Doku aus den Achtzigern über Synthesizer, Synclavier und Computer Musik überhaupt! Outdated but still interesting. Features news on "new" music making machines, including the Synclavier II. Max Matthews, Ronald Surak and Richard Head discuss sampling. Mason Gross. Rutgers. MIDI. PBS. Innovation [Youtube] [DirektTuben] [via brainpickings]

Giant OLED Globe

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National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo displayed Mitsubishi Electric’s "Geo-Cosmos", the world’s first large-scale spherical OLED. [DirektTuben] [via bestofyoutube]

Stippvisite in Googles Data Center

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Der Channel von Google Apps hat ein Video über deren Datenzentren veröffentlicht. Man sieht wie die Gebäude abgeschirmt sind, wie defekte Platten zerstört werden, wie Mitarbeiten den Iris-Scanner passieren und was im Falle eines Brandes passiert. Hmm. [DirektTuben] [via golem]

World’s Largest Artificial Tornado

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The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by UNStudio, can repurpose its internal ventilation system to form an artificial tornado “The twister takes around seven minutes to materialize,” Autoblog explains, “and is generated by 144 jets and 28 tons of air. The low pressure area at the center of the tornado works to create a [...]