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more about #fiberoptics more comments → Benguin: The Instructables page has been bookmarked and will be put into use when I am a homeowner. ... it's gonna be awhile. more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: All it needs is a larger moon for Ed Harris to stand in, and the whole webcam in my bedroom would make me fell like Truman! more » BeyondtheTech: I'm in my mid-thirties. Would it be childish to say I want this in my master bedroom? more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: I think the "moon" is the best feature. This makes me feel like I'll never be a good father until I do this for my children. more » Curves: Most of the people at Giz would probably dig a ditch for faster downloads too, (especially if its for pr0n). more » player_of_games: Isn't this going overboard? more » InsidiousTuna: Admirable. more » znoop: some put that photographer through 80,000 volts and take a picture of him as well.. wtf.. if he can do it, maybe someone else will become famous as we... more » Hello Mister Walrus: Family photo time! more » Curves: Wow! Beautiful. Reminds me of some pictures I saw of flowers that were taken using X rays (in the radiology waiting room at the local hospital, of cou... more » strider_mt2k: See? You can catch the EXACT moment when it's life essence is extracted...with electrocity! Supergood! more » kylenalepa: That's actually surprisingly beautiful. It kind of has a kimono-feel to it. The sash around the waistband looks a bit like an obi. Nice. more » OMG! Ponies!: Peasant dresses are not in style this summer. Fashion FAIL! more » Preyfar: Call it a Kimono and suddenly it's alright to wear. more » bosskev: Hey, all those lights are going to need portable power. And, given this dress's translucent silhouette, the only place I can think where she'd be hidi... more » -
#space
DIY Star Ceiling Brings the Universe Inside
I thought that I was pretty hot shit when I climbed on a stool and double-sided-taped glowing stars to my ceiling, but their waning green light never captured the night sky like DIY fiber optics. More » -
#fiberoptics
Isolated U.K. Lifeboat Community Digs Its Own Fiber Optic Channel
Power to the People: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, not content with their local service provider, recently took matters into their own hands and literally dug a ditch to install their own modest 100Mbps fiber optic Internet connection. More » -
#imagecache
Photography Through Electrocution
Robert Buelteman takes electrifying photographs, but he doesn't even use a camera. Instead, he places flowers directly onto film and shocks them with 80,000 volts. More » -
#fashion
We Ponder the Social Bandwidth of this Fiber Optic Dress
You may not be lucky enough to have fiber optic in your home, but at least you can feel its powerful pulses of light all over your body when wearing the LumiTop Sophia. More » -
#art
The Mist Bench Is Happy To See You
The "Mist Bench" from designer Gwenael Nicolas utilizes coarse knits of optical fiber that respond to human movement. As you get closer, the bench glows brighter. More » -
#broadband
Australia To Stimulate Itself With Government-Backed 100-Megabit Fiber Broadband For 90% of Oz
Ozzie prime minister Kevin Rudd has announced what will be one of the biggest government-sanctioned nationwide broadband initiatives in history: an A$43 billion plan to bring a fat 100mbps fiber pipe to 90% of Australians. More » -
#lighting
Lumina Italia Ra Desk Lamp is Like a Robotic Two-Headed Cobra
I don't know about you, but in my opinion the Lumina Italia Ra fiber optic lamp is the world's most strikingly nerdilicious gadget to ever illuminate a desktop. More » -
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#itsalive
DNA Strands Converted Into Tiniest Fiber Optic Cables For Optical Computing
Future optical computers that use light instead of electricity will need nano-scale pipes to transfer photons—analogues to the individual transistor's in a traditional circuit. And for that, scientists for the first time have used human DNA to build the smallest fiber optics cables yet created. And as is typical with organic computers, said cables are capable of assembling themselves. More » -
#fiberoptics
Fiber Optics May Change The Way You View Wallpaper
As a prospective homebuyer, I have watched enough HGTV to learn a few things: people like open floorplans and they like big kitchens with stainless steel appliances—but they don't like wallpaper. Still, that has not deterred designers from trying to make wallpaper appealing again. One such designer named Camilla Diedrich is attempting to achieve this feat using intricate designs and fiber optics. Her Nature Ray Charles series comes in several different colors and can be purchased for about $231 a roll—although there are no details on how the wallpaper works or how it is applied. More » -
#design
Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz
When I see images of Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts playing in my head. If I had the chance to check out Munro's light installation, coming to Project Eden in Cornwall, England on November 1, I would totally wander through the fields—slowly, slowly through the fields, in fact—touching the acrylic globes that float at the ends of 6,000 fiberoptically united tubes. More » -
#robots
Snake-Like Rescue Robot Will Scare the Sh*t Out Of You, Then Pull You From the Rubble
If I was trapped in a pile of earthquake rubble, I'd do just about anything to get the hell out as soon as possible. But if this cilia-covered rescue snakebot squirmed it's way up my leg, I think the chances of heart failure might need to be factored in. It's called the Active Scope Camera, and it was conceived by researchers at Japan's Tohoku University, all of whom are clearly fans of War of the Worlds. It's a fiber-optic camera wrapped in a layer of tiny cilia bristles, which allow for millipede-like locomotion that's creepy, creepy, creepy in this video. More » -
#cabinet
Horm Voltaceleste: A Fiber-Optical Star-Spangled Cabinet For Your Stuff
I loved the glowing Full Moon sideboard from the other month, but I wasn't able to convince my wife it'd make a good addition to our home. I reckon I'd have more of a chance with Horm Voltaceleste, from designer Salvatore Indriolo as it's a touch more subtle but just as astronomical. The doors are decorated with embedded fiber-optics in the patterns of constellations, and there's interior lighting too. It's chipboard and poplar veneer, so though there's no info on price I reckon it wouldn't be a wallet-smasher. [Born Rich] More » -
#speed
Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Miles
FiOS, you ain't got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing speed of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles. More »
