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Ranking the BEST baby & dog moments ever
That LAST one completely melted my heart
Watch till the end โ pure cuteness overload!
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This is the Netherlands' most famous airport clock. ๐ณ๐ฑโณ
The man is a recording. Dutch designer Maarten Baas filmed a performer for 12 full hours behind a translucent screen, erasing and repainting the minute hand with a roller, minute after minute, for the entire duration.
That footage plays on a loop perfectly synced to the actual time of day, which means this 3-meter-tall screen functions as a fully accurate working clock.
The details are deliberate. The blue overalls reference the airport's cleaning crews, and together with the red bucket and yellow rag, they form the exact palette of Mondrian, the Netherlands' most famous painter.
Twelve hours of painting, a decade of perfect time.
#technology #schipholairport #amsterdam #artinstallation #design
("A Poker, a Faith, and a Belly Full of Eggs"), a young Sheldon Cooper debates Pastor Jeff at church about the probability of God's existence versus science.๐๐
Sony built this camcorder for news crews, and skateboarding never gave it back. ๐ ๐
The 1995 DCR-VX1000 was the first MiniDV camcorder ever sold to the public, using a prism to split light onto three separate CCD sensors one for red, one for green, and one for blue. Broadcast-grade color in a body you could hold with one hand. Then Century Optics designed a fisheye lens specifically for this camera, and together they invented the way skate videos look, the low follow line, and the world bending at the edges.
The sound sealed it. The built-in mic caught the crack of the tail and the roll of wheels with a texture modern cameras still can't fake, and today a $299 microphone is sold with one job, imitating the internal mic of a 1995 camcorder. Sony moved on in 2000.
Skaters kept repairing them, repainting them, and handing them down.
Three decades of skateboarding, remembered in 410,000 pixels.
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#vx1000 #sony #skateboarding #90stech #technology
He's committed to the role. ๐ซก๐
This pirate ship helm is a fully custom controller creator JohnnyJack built from scratch to live the seven seas fantasy.
Hidden in the base is an optical encoder, the same type of sensor used to track precise rotation in robotics and industrial machines. It reads exactly how far and how fast the wheel spins, then feeds that motion into the game as input.
The creator johnnyjack is funding it on Kickstarter as Wayfinder One and plans to release the full build plans so anyone can make their own.
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#technology #seaofthieves #diy #gaming #engineering
Last one standing after Netflix took over. ๐ฅ ๐
The last Blockbuster on the planet sits in Bend, Oregon. At its peak in 2004, the chain had more than 9000 stores worldwide. Then Netflix and streaming arrived, the company went bankrupt in 2010, and the final corporate location closed in 2014. By March 2019 every other Blockbuster on Earth was gone.
This one survived. It still runs on the same equipment it always has, a DOS-based IBM computer system from the 1990s that has never been replaced. The blue and yellow membership cards, the candy shelves, and the walls of DVDs are all exactly as they were two decades ago.
What was once an ordinary video store is now a destination people travel to from around the world, a fully working time capsule of an era streaming was supposed to erase completely.
One store, still rewinding, while the rest of the world streamed past.
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#blockbuster #lastblockbuster #bendoregon #streaming #technology
Imagine looking down from the 22nd floorโฆ only to realize youโre still standing at ground level. ๐ณ
Welcome to Chongqing, China, a city so vertically extreme that it feels like it was built in a different dimension. Constructed across massive mountains, cliffs, and river valleys, entire roads, neighborhoods, and skyscrapers exist on multiple elevations at once.
What appears to be the ground floor from one side of a building can be the 22nd floor from another. Itโs one of the most fascinating examples of urban engineering on Earth and a city that often feels more like a futuristic movie than reality.
No wonder Chongqing is often called the worldโs real-life cyberpunk city. ๐๐
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#technology #chongqing #china #engineering #architecture