Whoever is flying this firework-spitting plane must have laser focus.
Guests of the Avalon Airshow in Melbourne were treated to a wild laser and fireworks show earlier this month when a plane literally shot lasers at them. The multitasking …
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This company wants to illuminate our skies with artificial shooting stars
Bored of regular fireworks? ALE, a Japanese “space entertainment” company, is working on making artificial meteor showers an option. ALE has already managed to send its first satellite into orbit to conduct experiments ahead of their first attempt for…
View More This company wants to illuminate our skies with artificial shooting starsA look inside the Taipei 101 New Year’s Eve fireworks show as it goes green
One of the tallest buildings in the world, Taipei 101’s New Year’s Eve fireworks have become an iconic celebration since the first show at the end of 2004. But despite being a major tourism draw, the fireworks haven’t been immune from criticism. Over the past couple of years, as poor air quality becomes an increasingly […]
View More A look inside the Taipei 101 New Year’s Eve fireworks show as it goes greenOooh. Aaah. Woaah. Here’s a bunch of dazzling fireworks displays for the 4th of July.
Oooh, look at that one. Aaaah, that’s a good’un. Woooaaaah, WTF was thaaaat?
Folks across America have toasted Independence Day beneath jaw-dropping fireworks displays, from New York City to Washington D.C., Nashville to Los Angeles and everywhere in…
Disney researchers are working on fireworks you can ‘feel’
If you’re visually impaired or blind, fireworks can feel a little exclusive to those with full sight.
“Feeling Fireworks” is a new project attempting to make fireworks more inclusive for people with low or limited vision, or who are blind — yep, they’re fireworks you can “feel.”
A new project by Disney Research and ETH Zurich’s Dorothea Reusser, Espen Knoop, Roland Siegwart and Paul Beardsley, it’s a large-scale tactile firework show in which water jets are directed onto a flexible screen.
Users put their hands up against the other side of the screen, a rear-mounted Kinect detects the user, and they will be able to feel “tactile fireworks that are directly analogous to physical fireworks happening in the sky.” Read more…
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