In this project by Mark Selby “each camera comes with a map of a city to which it is configured, and allows one photo for each grid square on the map. When that photograph has been taken the camera is disabled until the next square is reached. In encouraging exploration, the camera becomes the tour guide. (more…)
“’With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet’, writes Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar on his website for the project, appropriately named The Biggest Drawing in the World. ‘My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS (more…)
Drawing with Satellites by Chris Speed, Esther Polak, Ross Cruickshanks and Karlyn Sutherland is a GPS project that was carried out with second year architecture students from ESALA (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture). (more…)
Walking Through Time is a mobile application that allows smart phone users with built-in GPS to find themselves both in the present and in the past. By making available historical UK maps, users are able to scroll through time and navigate places using maps that (more…)
We’re all familiar with GPS. It consist on a network of satellites that broadcast a time signal. A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites. That’s handy, but only works on Earth. Now astronomers at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy have figured out how to use millisecond signals from a network of pulsars to allow GPS-style navigation on a galactic scale. (more…)
There are loads of past news that I would like to register in this blog – this is one of them.
Try Something New With Omo was a campaign launched in Brazil last year, whose aim was to get consumers talking about a new stain-fighting formulation of a (more…)
