Cool thing of the week

April 1st and yet inspiring

Amazon’s drone releasing blimp mothership

I think this just looks awesome: This video made by Zozi (sorry, proper Twitter video embeds are not possible) and released on Twitter. More background info on Snopes.

Amazing hobbies people have

Boeing 737 home built simulator

A while ago, I came across a post from Clement Stals where writes on setting up the displays for his home built cockpit. He built a Boeing 737 flight deck simulator and created a whole site on how to do it. I went down a rabbit hole and a search on Youtube confirms he is […]

Back to the future

Remastering old TV shows to 4K using neural networks

We all know the examples in movies and TV shows, where they take a low resolution photo or video footage and then use some magical software to uncover tiny hidden details. Here’s an example from CSI: But is there are some truth to that? Here’s a great post from Geoffrey Litt where he explores using […]
Endless unique ambient music

Bot composing, no AI involved

Endless unique ambient music

Generative.fm offers several endless dynamically generated ambient music streams. When you play one of the streams, [...]

Hidden WW2 treasure

Quarry filled with old-timers

It has been a while since I posted on some fascinating urbex topic. For this one, we go to a quarry in central France. It contains a collection of rusting cars dating back to the early 20th century. Nobody knows how they got there and why. Nobody even knew it existed before someone stumbled upon […]
WorldWideWeb

Celebrating its 30th anniversary

WorldWideWeb

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of WorldWideWeb, a group of people at CERN decided to try to bring it back to [...]
50,000 photos of the moon

The level of detail is just amazing

50,000 photos of the moon

Two weeks ago, I posted the far side of the moon selfie taken from the Longjiang-2 satellite. This week, I came [...]
Paper Mario Bros

Hand-drawn stop motion video of the original game

Paper Mario Bros

I came across this video (h/t The Verge) of a hand-drawn stop motion video of the first level of Super Mario Bros. [...]
Far side of the moon photographed by volunteers

Moon selfie

Far side of the moon photographed by volunteers

The volunteers of the Dwingeloo radio telescope put together a photo of the earth seen from the far side of the [...]
Explore ISS by ESA

Peak inside

Explore ISS by ESA

Google has a street view to explore the ISS, but ESA has their own version . While looking into how these [...]