Honda unveiled the U3-X, a stool with a unique directional wheel system that allows it to travel diagonally, as well as right, left, forward, and backward.
Honda's machine has a one-wheeled, "8"-shaped body on which the rider sits and changes direction by leaning forward, backward or sideways. It is something that would be used more for inside than outside like the segway.The U3-X moves at a maximum speed of 6km/h, about the pace of brisk walk.
The self-balancing U3-X, weighing in at less than 10kg, is powered by a lithium-ion battery and runs for an hour per charge. The U3-X device is able to readjust itself so that instead of riders having to constantly balance themselves, the robotic unicycle does the compensating for you. Honda's U3-X also includes balance control technology that allows the device to respond to how its load shifts and readjust balance accordingly while on the go.
What do you think of think of Honda's new U3-X unicycle?
Fall has to be the most colorful and peaceful filled seasons. While I guess this is my opinion but I agree with it. There are so many variations of colors and styles of leaves when autumn arrives. It gives a chill and yet peacefulness to the landscapes. So how do you capture these images and moments? Here are some tips to getting the best images for your fall photography.
1. Use a Polarising Filter
The saturation of colours that you get with one of these is fantastic. It is particularly useful in getting lovely blue skies but you’ll find that it decreases some of the haze that you often get at this time of year also. Using a polarizing filter will eliminate glare from the leaves and thus deepen the colors.
2. Shoot in the Golden Hours
While you can get great results at any time of the day - Shooting Autumn colours at the end of the day just before sunset when the light is golden. This accentuates the reds and golds even more than normal.
3. Don’t ignore the Overcast Days
Some people keep their cameras in their bags on days where the sun isn’t shining - but they can actually be the best days. I like overcast days because they help create a mood that you can’t get on a sunny day - plus the images are nice generally nice and rich.
4. Look for Contrasts
One way to accentuate the colours in your shots is to think about framing your shots in such a way that the different colours contrast with one another. Golden leaves on a blue sky - a red leaf on a lush green grass etc.
5. Avoid Shooting Into the Sun
Shooting into the sun will result in shadows, lower saturation of colours and lens flare (which further reduces the impact of colours. On Sunny days - keep the sun at your back. If you do have to shoot into the sun use a lens hood or shield your lens with something to avoid lens flare.
6. Play with White Balance Settings
Sometimes Auto mode with White Balance won’t give you the most vibrant results. Warm up your colours by increasing the colour temperature a touch (not too much). You can do this by increasing the kelvin numbers or by selecting a setting like ‘cloudy’ if your camera has semi-auto settings. Read more on White Balance here and here.
Museum Day is a one-day event where participating museums and cultural institutions across the country offer free admission to Smithsonian magazine readers and friends with a Museum Day Admission Card. Museum Day is an outstanding way to celebrate the country's cultural offerings, encourage the dissemination of knowledge and promote your venue nationwide.
Celebrate Art by attending and checking out a museum in your area. The Smithsonian website will help you find a venue located near you. This a one day event and it will be happening on Sept 26th 2009 and you shouldn't let it pass you by. Here is the link to get your admission pass for Museum Day: Admission Pass
Simplify Media is a FREE program that allows you to connect to your computer and listen to your music collection while your not at home. It also allows you to share your music library with up to 30 people. You can browse and play all your favorite music with itunes, winamp, WMP11 on Vista and Frontrow and Rythembox. They also have a iphone app that works on the iphone and the ipod touch. So you have full access even on your phone. Smiplify Media can also send all your shared information to a UPnP enabled devices like the Xbox 360.
This is a great option for people who have gigantic collections of music and want to listen to it while on the go.(wink). Its also good for people who like to share their collections with others. This is also a great app for those with an iphone and ipod touch. Check it out. Simplify Media for more information.
Illustrator is a great program to use to smooth out your design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. However it can be a challenging program when learning how to master. So I decided to provide to you some great tutorials that can help you in your goals of achieving master of Illustrator.
01 - Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days
02- Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide
03- An Intro to the Mesh Tool
04- Get More-Natural Adjustments with the Illustrator “Reshape” Tool
04- Fun with Illustrator’s Blend Tool
05- How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
06- Creating vector characters in Illustrator
07- Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout
08- Trendy Geometric Lines Tutorial
09- How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps
When the early years of the Internet were growing you had a source of many web search engines and Google wasn't the king of search engines. You had many choices like Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, Alta Vista and many more.
Let;s look and see how the web has changed the faces and designs of these search engines. Let go back to the future and compare the past to the present.
I wanted to post a blog about this program called Qik. This program was brought to my attention by a friend of mine. So I check it out and got some information on the software.
Qik is a mobile live streaming web application that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet Qik enables users to record and upload video directly from supported cell phones. Qik, a Silicon Valley startup, launched its alpha version in December 2007 and went into public beta in July 2008.
As of April 2009, Qik supports about 128 cell phones for its software. Qik videos can be shared via Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and many other online web 2.0 sites.
On April 2009, Qik was the first mobile video service to support Facebook Connect. It allows Qik users to automatically post videos directly to their video collection or wall and does not require them to install additional Facebook applications
Time for another compiled Playlist. This is a more chilled and folk kind of sounding playlist. It has some great bands that worth checking out. Hope you enjoy. ;)
Cover Art by Damion
Tracklist
1. Mrs. Cold By Kings Of Convenience
2. These Streets By Trolle Siebenhaar
3. We Sleep In The Ocean By The Cloud Room
4. Something To Believe In By Aqualung
5. Heading For Nowhere By Jets Overhead
6. One Of These Days By Joshua Radin
7. Hold You In My Arms By Ray Lamontagne
8. Vagabonds And Clowns By The Mostar Diving Club
9. Charmed Life By Joy Division
10. How I Remember By David Bazan
11. To Be Alone With You By Sufjan Stevens
12. Black Tables By Othher Lives
13. Bulletproof Weeks By Matt Nathanson
Long Exposure Photography is something that I find to be quite interesting. Long exposure photography is a technique that requires a slow shutter speed to capture light and movement.When an image is taken including stationary and moving subjects (for example, a fixed street and moving cars or a camera within a car showing a fixed dash-board and moving scenery) using a slow shutter speed, interesting effects, such as light trails occur. Long exposures are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using neutral density filters or specially designed cameras. Here are some cool long exposure photos.
Honda unveiled the U3-X, a stool with a unique directional wheel system that allows it to travel diagonally, as well as right, left, forward, and backward.
