Category: Cool

Eyestilts

eyestilts

Now when haven’t you wanted to be able to see thing from the perspective of a giant? These clever guys built a device that tricks your brain into thinking that your eyes are about ten feet apart and not the normal 2.5 inches. The effect is enhance the stereo effect and ‘shrink the world’. You can do the same thing with a camera by taking two photos of the same thing (it has to be large and far away) from two points that are separated by a few feet. But looking at photos isn’t the same as seeing it in real time with your own eyes, you lose a lot of the coolness.
Building one of these and putting it near the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls and charging a quarter for a look would make you rich.

eyestilts

ecoMOD Home

ecoMOD

For a school project this is pretty snappy. If I had the chance to buy one of these I would, I wonder what it would be like to live in one. The stress of keeping it clutter free might be overwhelming.

ecoMOD is a student design project at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. The aim is to design a house that is both affordable and eco-efficient. The first design they came up with is modular with an emphasis placed on melding indoor and outdoor space through passive design strategies.

[via Metaefficient]
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Synergy – The Soft KVM

Synergy

Wow! I saw this on CommandN yesterday and figured I’d give it a try. I have to report that I’m impressed with the software. The basic jist of it is that you use one keyboard and mouse between two computers. Works like a charm! I can even cut text from one computer to the other PC, a very handy thing while I sit here and toil away at the blog.
You should go download it and try it out. Next step is to try it on my Mac.

Synergy