Make Beats by Bouncing the Oddball Drum Machine
Funding on Kickstarter now, a product that's part musical toy and part tech device
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Quadrillions of Tons of Diamonds Discovered by Sound Waves
Within Earth’s cratonic roots—thick “inverted mountain” sections of rock beneath most continental plates—quadrillions of tons of diamonds rest, well below where we’ve ever been able to excavate or drill. This is according …
Via theoutline.com
Succulent-Saving Six-Legged Robots
Adapted from the robot HEXA, developed by Beijing-based technology company Vincross, this moving flower pot prototype not only holds small succulent plants, it changes locations to address whether a plant has too …
Via nytimes.com
Hope Rises From New Gene-Editing Method
Innovative Genomics Institute—a partnership between University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley—has released their findings on a new gene-editing method that holds the potential to advance treatment against …
Via businessoffashion.com
Beauty in the Realm of Augmented Reality
Earlier this year L’Oréal bought the augmented reality makeup app developer ModiFace, an industry leader in AR-assisted shopping technology. As many know, ModiFace and competitors have offered “magic mirror” type services wherein …
Via theverge.com
Nikon’s Coolpix P1000’s Powerful 125X Zoom Lens
Falling somewhere between utility and novelty, Nikon’s Coolpix P1000 offers the most extreme zoom available for the “compact camera” category. That’s 125x optical zooming or a 24-3000mm equivalence. The world of point-and-shoot …
Via fastcodesign.com
Fifth-Generation Pyrotechnician Jim Souza on Firework Design
This Independence Day, fifth-generation family-owned Pyro Spectaculars will put on over 400 firework events in one evening, according to Fast Company. Chief Show Designer Jim Souza does it all—from permits to ignition. …
Via wired.com
Wired’s List of Gadgets for iPhone Filmmaking
With the iPhone X shooting 4K video at 60 frames per second, pocket-sized capturing capabilities truly rival that of larger set-ups. Still, certain things are missing: from stabilization to various lenses and …
Via politico.com
Google’s City of the Future in Toronto
Google sister-company Sidewalk Labs has been contracted by a coalition of the Toronto, Ontario and Canadian governments to develop Quayside, Toronto as (what Sidewalk Labs refers to as) “the world’s first neighborhood …
Via theverge.com
University of Tokyo’s Dragon Drone Transforms While Midair
Calling the University of Tokyo’s new drone the Dragon doesn’t just reference its form, the name is also an acronym short for “Dual-rotor embedded multilink Robot with the Ability of multi-deGree-of-freedom aerial …