Gizmodo: mona lisa

Sit On the Mona Lisa's Face

Sean Fallon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:20:00 EST

A brilliant concept—chairs that can be transformed into wall art to save space. Plus, it's a turn on to anyone who ever fantasized about 16th hottie Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo. [Treehugger]

MythBusters Build a 1100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, Instantly

John Herrman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:20:00 EDT

In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.

Of course, the reality of parallel computing is much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but as with many of the experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of this demonstration makes its questionable veracity completely, totally, seriously excusable. Now that they've built this thing, the MythBusters have a clear and undeniable responsibility to turn it on a human and put the results on TV. Thanks in advance, guys. [TGDaily via CrunchGear]

Louvre Apple Store Now Official, Mona Lisa Keeps Smiling

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:30:00 EDT

The Gioconda will be surrounded by fanboys with white earbuds soon, as Apple gets ready to open an Apple Store in the Louvre following the official approval of the project. Like the Regent Street store in London or the Fifth Avenue store in NYC, the Louvre store will be located in one of the busiest tourism spots in the planet, with 8.3 million visitors each year.

"We are delighted that our project of opening a store at the Carrousel du Louvre was approved by the CDEC. Our stores have an enormous success in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy."

According to French site Nanoblog, the Louvre Apple Store will use 7,696-square-feet on two floors, using the space that was previously occupied by Résonnance and Lalique. [Nanoblog via Textually]