Archive for March, 2008

Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube

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We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…

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Animation: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

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A 7 minutes scene from “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” – an animated feature film by “Lotte Reiniger” from 1926. This film is said to be the oldest surviving animated feature film. If you’re interested in Lotte Reininger films you will find references to other scenes with the movie link below…

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Cartoon: Mr. M. having a bad day

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A dark cartoon of what definitely is a bad day…

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Video: Morpho Towers

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A interesting video showing the beauty of science within an installation with ferrofluids and magnetic fields…

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Will speedcabling become a new geek sport?

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What once was called – go clean out that closet with the patch cables – in now being turned into a new type of sport for geeks. Speedcabling, as they call it, already had its first competitions held in Echo Park, CA.

During the Speedcabling events contestants try to unravel a bundle of wires as quickly as possible. And there are rules what a bundle of cable is and how these should be intertwined within a set…

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