The 1980s synthesiser pioneer Thomas Dolby is releasing his first album in two decades, but you might know him better by his other achievement – a revolution in mobile phone ringtones. It is possibly the world’s best known mobile phone ringtone and, depending on your perspective, arguably its most annoying. But there is little doubting the…
Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts. The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images. Five scrolls have been captured, including the Temple…
As his career as an inventor became increasingly successful, Thomas Edison developed a range of philanthropic ideals, including the desire to place a piano in the home of every American. To ensure affordability, expensive (and resonant) wood would be replaced by a piano framework of concrete. Perfectly tuneable – if somewhat immoveable – the instrument…
Italians are born to communicate, and they’re loving their new mezzo – the smartphone. Now they have social networking apps to use alongside arm gestures and strong voices. Italians use smartphones and tablets more than the rest of Europe, spending approximately two billion euros annually on hi-tech accessories. The Doxa research agency, which conducted a survey…
Idiosyncratic concert pianist James Rhodes is disillusioned with Facebook but loves Twitter. Here’s what he says on his Telegraph blog: Truth be told, I only signed up to Facebook in the hope of being inundated with frisky offers from various beautiful women around the world. Instead, as is so often the case with online expectations, I found…
It’s labelled a sky diving ballet. Though ballet doesn’t really come into it, it is rather amazing and satisfies my geeky side! http://youtu.be/fLm_YzY3kLU And if you want to try it yourself visit www.skydivearena.com
The performance, dubbed Dancing Atoms, is the result of a collaboration between ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and a team lead by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – says The New Scientist. Bolle’s body was digitally replicated with a 3D laser scanner, producing a computer model that the team could manipulate at will. He…
The massive set for Wagner’s “Ring” being staged at the Metropolitan Opera picked a fine time to misbehave. A technical problem left an estimated 175,000 people sitting in movie theaters around the world (and nearly 4,000 people at the Met itself) twiddling their thumbs while waiting for the start of a live high-definition broadcast of…
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