Matt Borgelt hat sich einen NES Couchtisch gebaut, der – wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe – eine voll funktionsfähige Replica inklusive eines überdimensionalen Controllers ist. Fotos gibts auf Borgelts Flickr-Account.
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"It might be one of the most unconventional hospital wards on Earth, except that technically it’s not on Earth: It’s hundreds of meters below the surface. For decades, the tunnels of the Solotvyno Salt Mine in Ukraine have hosted subterranean convalescents. Patients with various bronchial blockages, asthma and breathing problems are sent to the mines by the Solotvyno’s allergological hospital to suck up the curative air. Kirill Kuletski’s photographs of these mines depict a cool underground outpost whose inhabitants appear to lie in eerie stasis. Patients are, in fact, undergoing speleotherapy: ambient exposure to the air of caves or mines, in this case air that’s permeated with salt ..." Eerie Ukrainian Salt Mines House Convalescing Asthmatics
"Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, and PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall at the historic U.S. Exhibition in Moscow in July 1959"(via Atompunk)
1. Do we have a chance of beating the Soviets by putting a laboratory in space, or by a trip around the moon, or by a rocket to go to the moon and back with a man. Is there any other space program which promises dramatic results in which we could win?
4. In building large boosters should we put out emphasis on nuclear, chemical or liquid fuel, or a combination of these three?
"Every fan of Back to the Future remembers the shoes that Marty Mcfly donned in 2015 that autolaced on to his foot and his exclaimation: "Power Laces- alright!" ... I will develop and finalize a marketable version and mass produce it. The next version will operate under a different, more efficient mechanism, and will be more suitable for everyday use. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to create it on my own, which is while I am turning to you guys! ... Let's Support the Future that 80s comedy/scifi movies promised us!(via Gamma Squad)
‘panoptICONS’ addresses the fact that you are constantly being watched by surveillance cameras in city centres. The surveillance camera seems to have become a real pest that feeds on our privacy. To represent this, camera birds - city birds with cameras instead of heads - were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on our presence. In addition, a camera bird in captivity was displayed to show the feeding process and to make the everyday breach of our privacy more personal and tangible.
"sneak peak into the next movie mash-up coming this Winter. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg weren't satisfied with ruining single movies. Now they will ruin two at once!"
"For an 80s-themed Halloween party, I wanted a costume that was unique, incorporated technology, and would be fun for fellow partygoers. I’d been toying with the idea of making a mini arcade machine for my game room, so I decided to come up with one that I could also wear as my costume. What follows is a guide to making your own wearable Pac-Man that guarantees you’ll be the life of the costume party. It’s fun to build and to wear. And I’ve since converted it to a bar-top arcade machine, so this costume can play long after the Halloween parties are over." Playable Pac-Man Costume
"The segregation of public washrooms is one of the most basic ways that the male-female binary is upheld and reinforced. As such, washroom signs are very telling of the way societies construct gender. They identify the male as the universal and the female as the variation. They express expectations of gender performance. And they conflate gender with sex." Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets(via MeFi)
"The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven is a sculptural installation drawing on the ecology and biodiversity of two sites on opposite sides of London; Duncan Terrace Gardens in the East and Cremorne Gardens in the West. The installations reflect the forms of the surrounding architecture; a combination of Georgian town houses, and 60's social housing around Duncan Terrace, and the World's End Estate adjacent to Cremorne. The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven has developed out of a recent London Fieldworks project called Super Kingdom ..."(via Animal)