No wonder I love this video (i.e. it looks amazing). Four words: Directed by David Fincher.

So what’s the post that you’ll see for the next eight months here? Well, it had to be something pretty spectacular, and I’m confident this music video fits the bill. This video from Foals is properly amazing, and Cool Hunting has an interview with the studio that thought of it, which describes the three months of painstaking motion capture it took to make.

But honestly, why should any of that matter? Just watch it, then watch it again, then watch it again… Lord knows I have.

Source: Cool Material

Leap Interactive Computer Controller


Something has to be really significant to tear my attention away from cramming on my field paper - like watching new episodes of Sherlock on PBS.com, whenever the New York Times adds an article to their front page, or re-watching season 15 of South Park.

However, it takes something amazing to jump all the way up the list, past just reading or tweeting about it, to deserve me babbling for a paragraph or two here. What’s so special about this “Leap” controller thing-a-majig? Well, Holy S*#t, just the fact that it exists and only costs $70.

What the hell is it?

The 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report is like catnip for techies for a bunch of reasons, but one of the most important has to be the depiction of computers: large transparent panels that respond to gestures without the use of touchscreens. Sure, the Kinect system does a lot of that stuff, but it doesn’t handle precise movements very well, isn’t designed to work with a computer, and costs about $150.

The Leap controller, on the other hand, just sits at the base of your monitor, and is able to precisely recognize everything within an eight cubic-foot space above, and costs $70. The demo above does a way better job explaining exactly how precise it is, but essentially it’s as, or more accurate than a touchscreen. 

Oh, I’ll also mention that it costs half as much as the Kinect, is designed to work with any relatively new Mac or PC, and doesn’t need any special gloves or other crap like that.

So why did I write this post? Well, how often does something from a sci-fi move set 40 years in the future not only go on sale for cheap, but actually works better than the stuff in the movie?

Source: Cool Material

Dollar Shave Club

Okay, so stop me if you’ve already seen this video, because it’s really making the rounds on all of the blogs I continually rip off. If not, absolutely take a look because this has to be one of the best commercials I’ve seen in a long time.

Hell, I might like this as much as some of my friends like Old Gregg, Baileys, and all things that are good (my apologies if that video wasted 10 minutes for ya). Plus these guys actually do somehow manage to ship a month supply of blades for $1 a month, which seems impossible short of facing operating costs and prices from 1967.

Source: Cool Material

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