It looks like a metal marble floating in space. Or the palantír of Orthanc, magically teleported from Middle Earth to 11,000 light years away, in the Cassiopeia constellation. But it’s just a visual effect. This is the Bubble Nebula.
via Gizmodo
Pik torama is the illus tra tion stu dio of Amaranta Martínez. Her portfolio is filled with colorful, cute illustrations and designs, some of which are avail able for purchase in her shop.
via design work life.
Here’s a handy hint for anyone who’s ever created a Mac partition on a disk that can’t be removed using Disk Management in Windows…
1. Open a Command Prompt or PowerShell window and type DISKPART at the prompt
2. The first thing that you want to do is have DISKPART list the hard disks that it sees so that you can tell it which one you want to work with.
DISKPART>list disk
3. Then look at the list and you will propbably see a disk with a small partition around 200mb which should be the EFI partition. You will need to select the disk because all the commands are applied to the disk you selected.
DISKPART>select disk 2
4. Now all you have to do is tell it to clean the disk. This will remove all the partitions on the selected disk.
DISKPART>clean
via Mark Koberlein.
Here’s a lovely addon for Windows 7, Bing Wallpapers that automatically update each week…
Windows 7 users need only to download the theme package from Microsoft’s offering page and double-click it to set up a “Bing Dynamic” theme. By default, the wallpapers rotate every minute or so, so you’ll want to head into the settings to slow things down a bit (click the “Desktop Background” link at bottom). You’ll get three months of Bing wallpapers through the feed, automatically updated each week.
via Gizmodo
Ok not really a conversion. Just a custom skin/sticker to make an iPhone 4 look like a Leica M9 Rangefinder.
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Right, when can I get this in an iPhone?
You’re looking at Canons new 4k “Multipurpose” concept, a wondrous amalgamation of still and video cameras pumping 60 frames per second at 4k resolution out of an 8 megapixel 2/3-inch CMOS sensor. Yep, we said 4k video, approximately quadruple the resolution of 1080p.
The hardware is essentially a giant SLR body packing a fixed video-style lens complete with zoom and focus controls and a high-def flip-out LCD viewfinder were told its the same LCD found in Canons new XF-300 and XF-305 video cameras.
via Engadget.
The European Space Agency has released a series of new images of Orcus Patera, a long crater near Mars’s Mons Olympus whose rim rises some 6,000 feet. But the images, taken by the Mars Express craft, only deepen the mystery of the crater’s origin.
via Popular Science.
Phasma is a hexapedal running robot that can run dynamically like a living organism. It is an attempt to depict life purely through its motion rather than its shape, by extracting the physics of running from living things and implementing that to the artifact. Phasma uses compliant components such as stainless steel springs and rubber joints to reproduce smooth and efficient locomotion seen in animals. Another interesting biomimicry applied in Phasma is the alternating tripod gait as seen in insects that provides excellent stability.
via Daily Icon.