Clever: follow this video to see how to take a giant panoramic photo, turn it into a huge 5-foot-long metallic print and frame it using an inexpensive large mirror from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Impressive results. [RL Morris via Petapixel]
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Radar is wonderful, sure, but militaries didn't always have the benefit of radar to pinpoint enemy locations. Before that, there was sonar. Underwater is one thing, though. On land, you needed big victrola-like contraptions that looked uncomfortable as all hell.
These acoustic locators worked in much the same way as a submarine or bat's sonar would—through active and passive echolocation. Operators could merely listen to the surrounding battlefield to analyze for aircraft or engines, or produce a signal that would reverberate off the distant artillery and give a sense of the enemy's location.
This method was, of course, replaced by the much more accurate and probably lighter radar. Can you imagine lugging these things around? Still, it was a start. I'd like to own one of these things just as an ice breaker. [A Daily Trends via Buzzfeed]
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Navigating through a giant, massively detailed photo should be freaking amazing, not confined to a tiny control panel like it too-often is. The Gigalinc project from the University of Lincoln takes all the coolness of humongous photos and lets you control it with Kinect gestures. Awesome.
The project ran this weekend at the University of Lincoln in the UK, so you won't be able to get your hands on it or anything like it for a bit. But this is the kind of stuff we really hope we see more of out of gesture control. [Gigalinc via Petapixel]
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