Design from Brooklyn with Love

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Radiohead never ceases to amaze. Their new video for “House of Cards” bypasses cameras altogether in favor of Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. What the f%*^k is that, you say.

“The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, the female lead, and several partygoers. The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture large environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots.”

Of course.

Skip through the first minute or so, then it gets brilliant.

As one of the comments on this post points out, it’s the “best Flickr set ever.”

Thank you, Andy.

A few hours before it becomes official, we have a first look at the new ultra-thin MacBook Air thanks to the Wired Gadget Lab. According to Wired, “the device is made of aluminum and glass, and uses the same design language as recent Apple consumer products: black on silver.” There’s no details on exact specs and pricing for the 13″ sub notebook, but I’m sure Mr. Jobs will let us all know in a few hours during his keynote address at MacWorld. One interesting note — it looks like this puppy has no CD/DVD drive and no ethernet port. With so much dependence on Wi-Fi, is there another AT&T tie in here? We’ll find out soon enough I guess.

Wow. Pretty nice if this is the real deal. Check it out at AppleInsider.

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