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ARRR! Augmented Reality Pirates!

by Tom Saunter on 14. Jul, 2010 in gaming, mobile

Cambridge-based Augmented Reality specialists Optricks Media have just released their newest creation: AR! Pirates. It’s a swashbuckling shoot-em-up game for Symbian devices (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson) that uses a really unique marker-based mechanic: the coins in your pocket! In AR mode, three coins laid out in a triangle become a desert island, and the surface [...]

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Are You Ready For Your Close Up, Miss Colada?

by Tom Saunter on 06. Jul, 2010 in design

BevShots have discovered what you’d call a niche: they take your favourite alcoholic drink, crystallise a single droplet of it in an airtight container, photograph it at 1000x under a microscope, and then sell the resulting image on a printed canvas. And man, are these things selling! Since August last year BevShots estimate sales of [...]

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Holy Hole in a Doughnut!

Holy Hole in a Doughnut!

by Tom Saunter on 02. Jul, 2010 in Culture

TV ain’t what it used to be, and I’ve found the evidence. It’s a video of the 109 utterances of Robin’s famous catchphrase, mashed-up and in sequence, as spoken by Burt Ward in the first series of television’s Batman in 1966. It’s the sort of thing I’d usually post on my Tumblr, but now we’re [...]

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The Weird Inner World of the 3D Fractal

by Tom Saunter on 01. Jul, 2010 in Technology, design

This post is about one of the really cool things that happens when maths I don’t understand and technologies I don’t understand get together to make something awesome. Let us begin: A fractal is a conceptual object that reveals further details about its shape ad infinitum, upon ever-closer inspection of it’s fabric. Think of the [...]

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Nature in Numbers

Nature in Numbers

by Tom Saunter on 23. Mar, 2010 in video

Saw something pretty cool on Boing Boing just now – a short film demonstrating how mathematic principles manifest in nature. It’s something you’ll all have heard about, but the below actually shows you the background, and does so in a really lovely way. Top marks to filmmaker Cristobal Vila for making Fibonacci, Golden and Angle [...]

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