What a shape, via Motor Trend…
The Aston Martin CC100 Speedster Concept made its world debut today by lapping the Nordschleife at Germany’s ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring race. Built to celebrate a century of Aston Martin sports cars, the CC100 Speedster concept’s shape is inspired by the race-winning 1959 DBR1 as well as hinting at Aston Martin’s possible future design direction.
Loving these custom laser cut screen cases for the mac, developed by Uncover…
The Dutch developer Uncover offers Apple MacBook owners a way to personalize their system. It turns out that beneath the aluminium unibody of the MacBook, there´s an entire illuminated panel, used to backlight the Apple logo. This gave Uncover the idea to produce unique covers for the device, thus providing consumers with their own personal look.
Here’s the latest release from Native Instruments, the iPad Traktor DJ experience brought to the phone, via The Verge….
Earlier this year, Native Instruments released Traktor DJ for iPad, a powerful DJ system that also has a lower learning curve than most mixing options out there. Now, the company is attemping to bring that experience to the small screen with the dedicated Traktor DJ app for iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a $4.99 app, compared to the $19.99 NI is asking for the iPad version, but it doesn’t skip on features — in fact, the company says just about every feature from the iPad app is present in this new release.
Virgin Galactic finally tested their main rocket engines, the one time you can look out the window and not be scared of flames coming out the main engine…
Today, for example, they had a test-flight of their “Spaceship Two”, firing the soon-to-be-spacecraft’s rocket engine and breaking the sound barrier before successfully landing on a runway in the Mojave Desert.
Here’s a great example of what NASA does best…
In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph(150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.
I completely missed that the amazing Traktor DJ software has made the leap to the iPad, after a few days I have to say I am completely blown away by the feature set and flexibility.
Using the app on a multi touch surface means that you can have the precision and timing that is really hard to achieve when trying the same tasks on the mac, for me it replaces the need for my Kontrol S2 and makes everything so much more portable.
On thing I love is that the database of inpoints and loops you make when setting up tracks can be synced to dropbox, giving you complete peace of mind.
If you love music, and have an iPad, then is this is a must have app…
Unlike most other popular DJ apps for the iPad, Traktor DJ doesn’t have any virtual turntables or other real-world controls displayed on the screen — instead, you directly touch and manipulate the waveforms of your tracks themselves.
Traktor immediately slices beats into tappable areas as it loads tracks from your iTunes library, so you can jump around in a song simply by tapping on the waveform, and you can set loops anywhere just by tapping with two fingers on the screen.
Download for £13.99 from iTunes
