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My techie step-bro-in-law (James) has a job for New Scientist and has produced a video about some cool tech that creates an entire 3d cityscape from photos on flickr. You can watch the vid and listen to James’ voice over at the link below.

Entire cities recreated from Flickr photos – video 42059434001 – tech – 29 September 2009 – New Scientist.

YouTube – HER MORNING ELEGANCE COMMERCIAL.

For doing a bit of graphic stuff I bought myself a new bit of kit.

Basically it means I can draw with a pen on a tablet in a much more natural way than using a mouse. Hopefully have some results to show in a week or so.

Here they are, can you guess who did which one?

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I’ll post our pumpkin efforts here in a moment – once Lorraine has finished – but check this out for a proper geek pumpkin!

Carving the Death Star.

Wow!

Sounds too good to be true? Check out the times online article. Basically harnessing the power of footfall at Victoria tube station to drive mini turbines to store a charge the could then be used for whatever.

The interesting point is at the end which mentions the possibility of powering your ipod (other mp3 players are available) by the motion of your walking. Cool!