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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]