Flyboard Air – a real hoverboard
The Flyboard Air looks like fun over a lake, I wonder if it could make it over the channel…
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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 space and anyone who disagrees is either a short sighted idiot or a massively, colossally selfish individual who only cares about themselves and the next…
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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 larger one, so you can imagine my delight when a mere 5 years later I was able to upgrade. The original one still works –…
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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.
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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.
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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 stretched to up to four times its original length. It also means that you can integrate circuits and technology into clothes. Frankly, you aren’t connected…
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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.
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Our Solar System is a vortex
Although I knew the solar system was flying around the super black hole at the middle of the galaxy (which is itself on the move), I never really envisage that movement.
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year from everyone here at the Word of Ward offices. I was born in Hong Kong and spent 21 years there so I will use the Cantonese version – Gung Hey Fat Choy!
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Far Cry 4 review
Far Cry 4 is a colossal sandbox adventure in the fictional kingdom of Kyrat. It is a gorgeous but deadly little place.
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Temple of Art
The Temple of Art is a documentary (and website) about what it is like to be an artist. Although not just an artist, just generally creative. There are lots of writers, musicians, directors and actors, etc, featured, and the end result is damned inspiring.
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Cooperworld – a short story
Cooperworld is a 17,000 word short story that looks at the nature of intelligence and consciousness and how meaningless those terms might be.
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Happy New Year!
Happy bloody New Year! I hope it is going well for you so far and that you haven’t already failed miserably at keeping your resolutions.
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from all of us here at the Word of Ward! (i.e. me.)
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Ford tells Trump: It was a movie
Harrison Ford tells Donald Trump: “It was a movie” when hearing Trump praising his Presidential role in Air Force One.
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Adele’s Hello by the Movies
A man called Matthijs Vlot has taken Adele’s Hello and remade it with movies because… well no one else has. Enjoy.
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Amazing image of the Earth and the Moon
When the Japanese satellite Hayabusa 2 took a photo on its way to some asteroid or other, it took a photo of Earth and the Moon from 3 million km / 1.9 million miles away.
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Map of musicians from each London borough
A map of musicians showing where in London they came from. Mostly.
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Meteors over Bangkok
Apparently we are in the midst of the Taurid meteor shower and this is a good ‘un. There are supposed to be more meteors and I’m now glued to the skies.
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Create a hologram with your smartphone
This video shows how to create a hologram with just your smartphone and a couple of easy peripherals. Enjoy!