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Video: Japan’s Defense Ministry Develops Awesome Ball-Shaped Drone The world got a first glimpse of the “world’s first spherical flying machine” back in June this year, but its maker, Japan’s Ministry of Defense, decided it’s time to showcase it publicly a few days ago in Tokyo. And as you can see in the video embedded below, their ball drone is pretty awesome. The drone can stand still in mid-air, fly vertically and horizontally through narrow spaces at up to 60km/h, and (which is very cool) keep on moving when it hits the ground or a wall. Thanks to three gyro sensors in its body, the machine can keep also flying even if it’s hit by an obstacle. What’s also impressive is that the drone is made of spare parts that cost just US$1,400 in total. Here’s the video (in English, shot by DigInfo TV in Tokyo):

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Landmark History Albums The marvellous resource that is Landmark’s History Albums is now available online. This makes the detailed research undertaken on each Landmark digitally available to all, an extensive repository for every kind of historian and others to mine. Ever since Landmark was founded in 1965, every building has had its own History Album, a scholarly but readable account of the site’s history and those who lived there. Each is written by Landmark’s in-house Historian of the day to help Landmarkers get the most out of their stay, and we now make them available to download. Although every album has been carefully researched, sources are not generally cited in full given their general readership. The Magnet (film) The Magnet is a 1950 Ealing Studios comedy film, and gave James Fox his first starring role. The story revolves around a young Wallasey boy, Johnny Brent (Fox), whose deceptive obtaining of the eponymous magnet leads to confusion and ultimately him being hailed as a hero, but feeling guilt at his slyness. Johnny Brent (Fox), whilst off school in quarantine for scarlet fever, manages to con a younger boy out of a magnet by swapping it for an "invisible watch". However the little boy's nanny accuses him of stealing, which makes Johnny feel guilty: he runs away but then tries to get rid of the magnet, particularly after an older boy uses it to cheat at a pinball machine and the owner thinks Johnny is involved. He then meets an eccentric iron lung maker who is raising funds for the local hospital and gives him the magnet which is later auctioned for charity. The Magnet at the Internet Movie Database

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Can this former Apple executive put a shine on JCPenney? The genius behind the genius bar at Apple is now reimagining JCPenney’s 1,100 stores. Penney CEO Ron Johnson, who made it more attractive to go to Apple stores than shop elsewhere, wants to do the same for the 110-year-old retailer. To do so he is creating stores-within-a-store and a “town square” where shoppers can hang out—just like they do at Apple. He’s also enlisting the help of such A-listers as Martha Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres and designer Nanette Lepore. Johnson described his plan as the six P's: Price, Personality, Product, Promotion, Place and Presentation.

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Decoding a Tiffany Glassmaker’s Secret Notebook Scrawled in a notebook on view at the Corning Museum of Glass’s Rakow Research Library is: “Important: this is the key to all formula; keep it secret.” The small leather-bound book was used by Tiffany Studios glassmaker Leslie Nash to record recipes, designs, and personal notes on his father Arthur’s glass chemistry. Sometimes the was knowledge so secret, it was written in code. “Arthur and Leslie Nash used this code to protect their recipes and ideas,” Rebecca Hopman, Rakow Library outreach librarian and curator of Curious and Curioser: Surprising Finds from the Rakow Library, told Hyperallergic. “This kind of information was often closely guarded by glassmakers and/or companies — it was proprietary and they didn’t want others stealing or profiting from their innovations.” “Arthur Nash created the recipe used for Tiffany’s favrile glass and recorded it in his notebooks,” Hopman said.

MidCentury - The guide to Modern furniture, Interiors and architecture Antelope chair by Race Furniture, all images courtesy of Race Furniture It’s almost 75 years since the birth of Race Furniture and so it seems timely to revisit the work of this great British designer, who in a relatively short career produced some of the most iconic designs of his generation. It was a treat to be invited by the Managing Director of Race Furniture, Stuart Finlator, to visit their Gloucestershire factory, have a root through the archives and learn more about their reissued ‘Classic Collection’. An article and full set of photographs is published in MidCentury issue 07, but here are a few additional questions I asked while I was there!

Huguenot Society The Huguenot Library was formed from the printed and manuscript collections of the Huguenot Society and the French Hospital libraries, and contains the most complete body of Huguenot literature in this country. Since 1957 it has been housed within UCL Special Collections, and is currently located at The National Archives . The main focus of the collections is on the history of the Huguenots in Great Britain and Ireland, but the Library holds material on a much wider span of Huguenot-related topics, and covers the history of the Huguenots in France and the wider diaspora. The archive collection in particular provides an invaluable insight into the lives of the immigrants in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Both the library and the archive collections contain significant sources for genealogical research.