Whee! I’ll be an unwitting shill for a viral marketing campagne but only because it looks neat. If the Monsterpod does half of what it says it can do then I might buy one. The Monsterpd is like a beanbag tripod without the beans. Actually, it’s a plastic base that has a mold-able ‘viscoelastic morphing polymer’ (read: some sort of shape holding gel foam stuff), and a neoprene outer covering. All in a 6oz package. As long as your camera is under 300 gm (10 oz) it will hold whatever in place for a minute to an hour before oozing and letting go. This should give anyone enough time to set the self timer and get in the shot. If I were to guess how it works and I might as well do that, I’d say that you push it onto whatever you want and it fills in the nooks and crannies with bits of itself until it hold fast. Like the way a vine will crawl up a wall. I’m paranoid so I’d use a safety line on the camera if I were to plant it on a tree or sideways to a pole. But that’s just me.
The website says it will be shipping in a few weeks so look for it soon.
Author: John
Moving up!
Over the next few days TeamDroid will be migrating to a larger server so things might not work or get updated for a few days. Everything will be back up and running once the DNS caches get refreshed. Until then, be seeing you.
‘Are you from the past?’ IT Crowd Fan Shirts
As anyone in IT knows, helpdesk is like being in hell but with ‘special’ people asking you questions all the time. If you don’t know what that’s like then you need to see a British comedy called ‘The IT Crowd‘ (if you looked you could find it online but I don’t know anything about that).
Roy: Yeah, you do know how a button works, don’t you? No, not on clothes. No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that’s the music you hear when it comes on. No, that’s the music you hear when… I’m sorry, are you from the past?
Express your inner nerd with one of these the next time you have a casual Friday and the office.
[via Boing Boing]
Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four
Roger Corman, king of the low budget films, produced a version of the Fantastic Four back in 1994. Sadly, it never saw the light of day. Well, perhaps it wasn’t all that sad. The film wasn’t all that great. Anyway, it’s been posted to YouTube (in 10 parts) so check it out before it’s too late!
[via Neatorama]
Light Bulb Aquascape
Another great use for a light bulb. This is using a 250W bulb so there is quite a bit of room to work with in there. This example is just for plants, but as I’ve discovered, fish like a Betta can live in tiny spaces like this fairly well.
[via Boingboing and MAKE]
Palmtop Aquariums
Rocket Booster Video of the Space Shuttle Discovery Launch.
From launch to a water landing, this stunning video shows you exactly what it would be like if you were duct tapped to the side of a space shuttle solid rocket booster. They get extra points from me for adding sound to the video. They must have bolted a transducer to the space frame of the SRB. RocketCam has more videos from past SST missions and even a few from some satellite launches.
[via neatorama]