Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on
I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.
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The great monetisation of Ward!
I realised recently that a lot of people are making money out of the Internet and I am not one of them. Which sucks. I have been writing purely for pleasure, like an idiot. I live in Thailand and the place is crawling with ‘digital nomads’ and I want to join the smug bastards.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is a new documentary from Werner Herzog. Apart from having an awesome voice, Herzog generally makes a pretty decent documentary. I remember … Read More
Sherlock Series 4
So the big excitement that has prompted me to write this, is that there is a new Sherlock trailer. It doesn’t give much away about what will happen but it does show Toby Jones who is going to be a new villain.
Chris Hadfield: the making of Space Oddity video
This is a ‘behind the scenes’ on the making of Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity video. Everything about this is great.
Augmented Reality transforming medical education
Not to be left behind in sticking it to boring old reality, VR’s less popular friend Augmented Reality (AR) has been hitting the news more often of late and showing that it can do some pretty cool things too.
Robotic stingray made from rat cells
A scientist called Kevin Kit Parker went to an aquarium with his daughter and saw a stingray. Thinking, as I have often thought myself, ‘That’s pretty cool, we should have robots built from gold, silicone, and rat heart-cells that behave and act like that.’
Tribute to Voyager space program is damn inspiring
Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.
Welcome back Tim Peake
Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More
Free books!
You read that right. Free books. My three books, to be precise. I have decided to put them out to share with the interweb because I am feeling generous and … Read More
Charge your phone using the power of plants
Thanks to science, photosynthesis, soil, our lord the Sun and a clever group of people, you can now charge your phone using plant power.
Genuine wrinkle cream that really works
Anyone who has not seen this site before will now assume that I am a spammer thanks to a headline about wrinkle cream. I’m sure you have all seen those … Read More
A Holiday in Cambodia
Dawn over Angkor Wat was beautiful. The huge Angkor Tom was amazing. Ta Phrom was downright cool.
Flyboard Air – a real hoverboard
The Flyboard Air looks like fun over a lake, I wonder if it could make it over the channel…
4 minute video of Space X launches is damned inspiring
(Feel free to skip my rant and just see the clip at the bottom. I apologise in advance.) I’m not going to tiptoe around this – we should go into … Read More
iPad Pro review for writers
I have had my beloved iPad Pro for about 4 months now. I always said when I got the iPad 1 that I couldn’t wait until they brought out a … Read More
Eggstatic – stroboscopic Easter Egg patterns
I would have loved a day off designing complicated devices and designs for eggs. These are really cool. I can sum up with: Eggs + computing skills + robot + camera/strobe + imagination = cool Easter eggs.
Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent is a project that was begun by Hugh Welchman, the Oscar winning animator of Peter and the Wolf in 2006. He saw the Royal Academy’s van Gogh show in 2010 and decided he really needed a ridiculously long and involved project to sink his teeth into.
Stretchable electronics
Some very clever people have been doing some very clever things with liquid metal and plastics/polymers/general stretchy stuff. Or something. The result of this cleverness is electronics that can be … Read More
I am now swapping Scrivener for Ulysses
I am now plotting away on Ulysses and it has been great. It looks and works great on the iPad too. It is a lot simpler that Scrivener but I was never that into doing complicated anyway.