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Idea stuck in my head since childhood: that thing E.T. Did where McGuyver'ed the wind and a tree limb + a ratcheting mechanism based on a record player and a saw disk acting on a turntable.Did you know it actually did something, and wasn't just for show https://t.co/tRHX5hxrsd https://t.co/irHQXNjuS0
I want to make a set of VR goggles that is just two of these backlit with an LED: https://t.co/vu8VAPRIhn
I've personally used a 1901 replica stereoscope https://t.co/cvAttXf8xCThey're pretty good!
That fisher price 8mm reel toy is basically a more advanced version of https://t.co/X5l9nciKRtI wonder if it can trace it's lineage to the kaleidoscope.
Tired: Twitter TittiesWired: Late 19th century coin operated Quartoscope with 3d boobies ran by clockwork.https://t.co/9olWTKpIoH
Ever wonder why they're called peepshows?https://t.co/97tRRyBX3J
Huh, PBS has a good review of the tech as it relates to VR https://t.co/Cs3AGdHwAt
I think I saw the steroscope at Billings Farmhttps://t.co/AZBzvShQYc
The Quartoscope was at one of the places at Clark's Bears. https://t.co/LAJUpIkvZ5
I've got this song stuck in my head - thinking about radio towers and how transmission of signals was propagated long distance around London https://t.co/54paiIhAog
They finally figured out you can run solid state projector technology in reverse to take pictures."The resulting image has low resolution, but this system represents a proof-of-concept for a fundamental re-thinking of camera technology, said Hajimiri."https://t.co/1r7tTfGyBE
Guy behind it is apparently working on a system of turning those ideas into a point-to-point wireless power transmission using light.https://t.co/QK6013rrKS
Why do I know about this stuff? I want an efficient way for robotic ants to store and transmit electricity as a proxy for Trophallaxis.It seems to use a different system than @ubeam.Lidar is fascinating.https://t.co/uMCBUEIhWx
Camera Obscura has come a long way.https://t.co/WnLl39anaj
wireless charging a swarm of robotic bees using lightweight low power video projection and capture to act as a giant distributed eyeball?Talk to me about robits.https://t.co/84oOC0lDV1
"Holograms were invented in 1942, so they've been around a long time. If you think about it, humans were making 3-dimensional images with lasers before digital cameras were invented."https://t.co/yqVAGnsnJr
This is just to sayI have seenthe elvesthat were inthe clockworkand whichyou are probablyunknowinglymaking manifestForgive methey were suspiciousso cuteand manifoldhttps://t.co/Rz2dsCzzV1
Have you seen the clockwork elves?They live in the wire.Haunting you via a whisper.https://t.co/5JvF7tf6pI https://t.co/Fxdp3OsRzu
I shouldn't be allowed to make art. https://t.co/SYnrtGiRpV
