The Mays Effect

jtotheizzoe:

Google Begins Testing Augmented Reality Glasses

Google has started testing their super-secret augmented reality glasses, something they are calling Project Glass. These Star Trek-looking prototypes (below) are going to be out in public, being put through some initial paces.

Phone calls, contextual information like weather and transportation routes, capturing photos, calendar management, even video chat. It looks like a pretty cool view of the future. Obviously, the features outlined in the video probably aren’t written into the prototypes yet, but they give a great idea of what Google has planned for Project Glass. Someone should ask that guy’s friend why he doesn’t have a pair, though. Is it because the narrator looked like a weirdo walking around with shifty eyes, talking to himself?

Google also announced the project this morning on Google+, and you can go check it out. That strikes me as a very good way to ensure that almost no one hears about it.

(ᔥ Project Glass)

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moscowbear:

-1992 Alfa Romeo Group C prototype

Monster v10

topgear:

Aston V12 Zagato reaches production

It’s gorgeous. And it’s being revealed next week:

It first made waves at the Villa d’Este last May; from there it raced as a prototype in June at the gruelling Nürbürgring 24hrs, and last September made an appearance at the Frankfurt motor show. All as a full-blooded, big-winged cabin-less racecar.

Next week, in Kuwait, Aston Martin will finally reveal the road-going production version of its lightly expensive and gently unique Aston Martin V12 Zagato. And it will look like this.

Each Zagato takes around 2,000 man hours to complete, and is constructed from hand-crafted aluminium and carbon fibre, just like the One-77. The car sits on a V12 Vantage platform with that body, complete with ‘double-bubble’ roof, bonded to the aluminium structure of the base car, designed by Aston Martin design chief Marek Reichmann’s team in Britain. In fact, the Aston designer insists the new Zagato takes cues from the past, but forges a new design language for future Astons.

For more details, visit TopGear.com

I’m starting to become very disappointed with Aston with its inability to create a new FUCKIN INTERIOR!

jtotheizzoe:

timelordlaura:

Hydrogen as a plasma, along with helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon in excited states.

The beauty of ionized atoms. Inert except when excited.

Here’s a nice little explainer on how it works.