For the first of three encores at a concert in San Francisco last week, Chinese pianist Lang Lang played ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ on an iPad. Watch him tickle the virtual ivory using the Magic Piano app. Mad skills!
The video shows a set of two plasma TVs set up behind a pair of windows, connected to a Mac Pro. The Mac is running Winscape’s software which controls the view seen from the windows by tracking the individual’s movement around the room using a simple IR sensor (in this case a Wii-mote). As the person moves around the room the view out of the ‘windows’ changes perspective accordingly. Read more…
Save yourself those precious few mood killing minutes of DVD trailers and legal warnings by using this simple, yet brilliant trick. Make seeing that little red ‘action not available’ sign when you press the menu or title button a thing of the past.
So how much money to recording artists make from digital downloads, streams and retail sales? It turns out that to earn the US minimum of $1,160/month, they would need 12,339 iTunes downloads or, alternatively 4,549,20 plays on Spotify. Apparently Lady Gaga made just $167 from 1 million streams of Poker Face on Spotify. Ouch. See on for the full, rather shocking picture. Read more…
Very well made, stop-motion video of people driving chairs. Indicating and the end are particularly entertaining.
If this guy offers you his card, make sure you take it.
Take a bunch of Modern Warfare fanatics, give them $209.42 and they shall deliver this in return. A real life 7 minute action flick well worth your attention. Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing was created by Corridor Digital who are obviously an exceptionally talented team. Part 2 is coming soon.
How new F1 driver, Bruno Senna unwinds after a hard day at the track. Cardio + balance + FPS. Now before you think this looks relatively easy consider that Senna is not simply riding an exercise bike, its a real bike, on a bicycle roller. Senna has to balance himself whilst aiming down his sights, otherwise he’ll drift off the apparatus and into his TV most likely. Mad skills.
The Hurt Locker cleaned up show at the Academy Awards last night in Los Angeles and has been haled by many critics as a near perfect film. That is of course if you discount that the film was set in 2004, as made explicitly clear at the start of the picture, and featured a reference to putting a film on YouTube which launched in 2005 and featured a character playing an Xbox 360 which launched in November 2005 and Gears of War on said Xbox 360 which went on sale in November 2006. Oops! Read more…
