How To Move Through The Woods Silently
While hunting this week, I managed to stalk to within 30 yards of a bear and snuck up on an Army Ranger undetected. Here’s how to be vewy, vewy quiet outdoors. It’s a skill anyone can use.
How the most beautifully complicated watch movements in the world tell time
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. With these watches, telling time is so much more beautiful and intricate and complicated than that. These are some of the most sophisticated watch movements in the world with a ton of complications added to them and just to see all the fancy ways the mechanical engine moves is a delight. It’s a…
Watchmaker takes apart and reassembles a Rolex in hypnotizing video
This video shows a professional watchmaker taking apart and reassembling a Rolex Submariner. The insanely intricate movement of this watch is composed by more than a hundred little pieces, all of them vital to make it work with absolute precision, and all of them assembled by hand.
Spooky Art Installation Puts Mesmerizing Video on Moving Sculpture
Artist Robert Seidel loves to play at the fuzzy border between sculpture, still images, and art in motion. He's at it again with "grapheme," projecting piercingly bizarre video images on delicate suspended shapes that defy the conventions of a stationary, rectangular screen.
Xbox 360 Kinect Motion Controller Comes November 4 at $150
Microsoft's locked down their Kinect pricing, availability and bundling, and it's pretty much what everyone knew. It's $150 on November 4 for the standalone, and $300 bundled with a 4GB version of the new, smaller Xbox.
Apple Patents Movement Gestures for the iPhone
Apple recently applied for a patent for "movement-based interfaces for personal media devices," which means a more advanced accelerometer and movement gestures for the iPhone.
Close-up Video of a Watch's Movement
Got three minutes to kill? Check out this video of an extreme closeup of how a watch works. It's very odd, and unless you were a watchmaker, something you've never seen before. Careful not to watch this video too many times, or else you'll start getting delusions of grandeur and start chopping off the tops of…
