Mirror City Time Lapse, an abstracted video of US cities

The major cities of the world are bustling cosmopolitans of people amongst huge architecture of buildings, infrastructure and plazas outlined by multitudinous  transport networks. 

Michael Shainblum, Filmer and photographer has for the last five years been collecting images of five major cities in the USA  with a view to "emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before."

Shainblum has done this by collating a visual re-presenting of some significant American cities: Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

He has set out to "showcase something unique and artistic, which takes Time lapse photography into a more abstract direction".

iSketchnote: Nifty pen gadget records notes and sketches

Although the digital age is well and truly absorbed into our lives and community, there are many many writers and journalists remain using a a pad of paper and a pen or pencil. 

Simultaneously there are some pen pushers who have adopted either a digital pen or other such device to record and digitise their notes, scribblings and or doodles. These devices are by no means the most harmonious of devices between analogue and digital that justifiably satisfy all writers particularly those that use Apple products like the ipad and or Mac  computer. 

Thus an erstwhile team of developers have created an ipad cover enabling Apple centric writers and doodlers alike to digitally record their jottings. While the iSketchnote is being produced as a cover for an ipad, it can also be used with either a PC or Mac via USB.

Pinger alarm system helps prevent "Cetacean By-catch"

Every year thousands of unintended marine mammals lose their lives by becoming entangled and or strangled in commercial fishing nets and lines. This is known as “Cetacean By-catch”.

Marine scientists estimate that more than 300,000 Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Cetaceans) accidentally drown in fishing nets every year. "Cetacean by-catch is a global problem and represents the single largest survival threat to many marine mammal populations around the world."

Scientists at the Future Oceans research laboratory in Queensland, Australia have developed a small but clever acoustic alert gadget that emits sound waves, tuned to alert Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises to the presence of fishing nets. These devices called Pingers have been scientifically proven to be the only known solution to significantly reduce cetacean by-catch.

The Device, Thrilling Sci-Fi Short Film

We are all now not only depended upon geeky electronic gadgets of all varieties and more and more fascinated and intrigued by what they may provide or assist us with, that we are all perched on the edge of our seats wondering where the next gadget will be taking us.

Simultaneously many of today's devices that many of us can't seem to do with out like smart-phones, tablet computers and eclipsing the horizon smart wearable computers were all first seen and created in numerous Sci-fi movies and television shows, like Star Trek and 2001 A Space Odyssey. 

Thus the technology harbingers of our modern geeky gadget life are very likely gnawing over  what the latest Sci-fi creators have to offer up.

Open airspace ballet with tractors

On a wide open dusty plain near a waterway is a choreographed group of dancers and tractors performing a contemporary style in an open airspace environment to the accompaniment of some unknown music.

The music track itself is of a rather poor quality mainly near the beginning of the edited  video, but might be because of the position of the video camera, nevertheless the performance is entertainingly original, and massively popular in the region wherever that may be?

Click through to watch the video.

Throwable camera takes awesome in-the-air images

A bit larger than a cricket ball and smaller than a baseball, the Squito, a throwable panoramic video camera provides users to capture stabilised full "360° spherical panoramic video and high-resolution images over the course of its airborne trajectory."

Although the inventor, Steve Hollinger, says his device is packed with sensors, one is given to speculate that there is in all likelihood,  accelerators and gyroscopic sensors housed in this device merely because it knows which orientation it's in when spinning and or drifting thru the air. Simultaneously as it's flying through the air, the device at any given time is reorienting and stitching individual frames into panorama's, not only but also on the fly, captured footages are being sent wirelessly to a smartphone.

Click through to view a well made demonstration video.