http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa

Amazing. I want one.

Fantastic drawings of Legomen from the original patent (1979)

Developments in nanotechnology and planetary-scale engineering point to new possibilities for us to conform the global environment to our needs. These advances combined with a dream to make clouds snow ice cream have inspired a series of experiments that look at ways to alter the composition of clouds to make new and delicious sensory experiences. Using ice-cream as a catalyst for interesting dialogue, the project’s focus is to welcome people into a mobile space that sits outside institutions, letting new audiences experience and imagine emerging scientific developments and their consequences.

Via Daniel Eatock

via fastcompany

Artist & Musician David Byrne has created a sound installation in London, based around the idea of using a building as an instrument. Nice way to approach otherwise ‘derlict’ spaces.

Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.
http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/art_projects/playing_the_building/index.php

This is great: Threeframes.net