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No Robots: A touching short movie
Mar 7th
No Robots from YungHan Chang on Vimeo.
No robots is a wonderful short story about a time/place where robots are disliked by the society. It is about a man whose prejudiced opinion about robots is broken. Watch the short movie to witness those touching series of events that make a man change his preconceptions.
Beautiful drawing, direction, details and an amazing overall usage of color.
An automatic bookmark for your novels
Mar 6th
Albatros bookmarks from Oscar Lhermitte on Vimeo.
It is a new kind of bookmark that follows as you turn pages. Albatros Bookmark’s ingenious design eliminates the purpose of even remembering to place a bookmark. It sticks to the end pages and as you close the book it automatically folds into place.
Oscar Lhermitte started a fixed funding campaign at Indiegogo to raise 3000$. Every person donating 10$ or more is being shipped 6 of these, which will sell for 13$ in retail. It has already raised 14k$.
Make your own Ambigrams
Mar 6th
It has always been fun to write my name in a way that it reads the same (or something else) when turned upside down.
Instead of hours of brainstorming and doodling on paper you could try using FlipScript, which makes ambigrams automatically. The sad part is that it doesn’t let you have a high resolution version of the ambigram it makes for you, unless you are ordering something from their website. Still, it gives an idea on how to proceed with your doodles and saves you from the inefficient brainstorming.
note: Sometimes, when it is possible to make it into a single word, flipscript does it automatically. eg: textbox1: Friends; textbox2: Family.
Brain Hack – Spinning Girl
Mar 4th
The spinning girl is very common illusion. If you have never come across such a thing, I bring to you: The Spinning Girl (echos).
As the name suggests, it is a GIF image of a girl spinning. But take a look at it. What do you see? Is she’s spinning in the anti-clockwise direction for you? I always see her going anti-clockwise. If you keep staring, she might suddenly change the direction. It isn’t very easy to visualize for everyone. One method works for me always (described below). During the first few tries you might have trouble getting a hang of it. Soon it will be a breeze to make her spin in the direction you like.
The method:
1. For Anti-clockwise direction – If she is already doing it, skip to the 2nd point. Otherwise, look away from the monitor preferably on the right side of your monitor. Now using your peripheral vision concentrate on the image and think of it spinning in the anti-clockwise direction. Don’t look directly. Now when she starts doing that slowly change from peripheral to direct vision. Done. If it doesn’t work, try shifting from peripheral to direct vision suddenly.
2. For Clockwise direction - If she is already doing it, skip to the 1st point. Otherwise, scroll down till the point where you see only the lowest part of the image (the end of her shadow). Her shadow must have already started to spin in the clockwise direction. Concentrate if it is not happening. When it starts happening, keep staring and concentrating on the shadow and very steadily start scrolling up. Now slowly start focusing on the girl. She’ll be doing clockwise circles.
With enough practice and two of these images kept side by side, you’ll be able to see both directions at the same time. This will take time.
note: Since people everywhere are fascinated by brain hacks and optical illusions, online articles claim it as a test to find if you are right or left brain do it to gather attention. It makes no sense. It is a plain optical illusion based on how your visual cortex sees it. It has nothing to do with hemispherical dominance.
Related articles
- Peripheral vision (marciokenobi.wordpress.com)
- That Was Hard (dna100.blogspot.com)
Taking screenshots on your android device
Feb 11th
Android versions less than 4.0 don’t natively allow screen capture ability. You have 2 options to do it on your android phone/tablet:
1. Root your phone and then install apps like Screenshot and Screenshot It. I personally am not interested in rooting my phone right now. I’m scared to do it.
OR
2. Install Android SDK and Java Development Kit. Use the Dalvik Debug Monitor to capture screenshots. This method is messy and does not let you capture screens on the move.
Some phones like Samsung galaxy and Sony Xperia (updated to 2.3.4) allow you to capture screens natively.
For Galaxy phones:
Press the back button and hold, then press the home button to take the screenshot.
For Xperia phones which have been updated to 2.3.4 can capture screens by long pressing the power button and selecting screen capture on the touch screen.
Related articles
- Android 2.3.4 Update for Xperia™ SmartPhones (mrpant.com)
- Instagram Coming Soon To Android – Screenshot Leaked? (theappwhisperer.com)
- Galaxy Note: How to take Screenshots (mobilityupdate.com)
