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15 May 2012 ~ Comments Off

Inspiration: The Water Clocks of Bernard Gitton

Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s museum: an immense clock that kept time with the flow of water through glass tubes.

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27 February 2011 ~ Comments Off

Setting the date on a Muvi Micro Camcorder

I recently got a little Veho Muvi Micro Camcorder after seeing my brother using one on his bike. I appear to have the Pro model which on the positive side can handle more frames per second, but on the negative side puts a bright green timestamp on your recordings and there’s no way to disable [...]

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