kafa.fi - Valokuvaus Kai Fagerström Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the army's latest $4million spy drone disguised as a hummingbird, measuring just 16 centimetres By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 08:26 GMT, 18 February 2011 A pocket-sized spy drone disguised as a hummingbird has been unveiled by a major Pentagon contractor measuring just 16 centimetres and weighing less than an AA battery. The mini spy plane can fly up to 11 miles an hour and took five years to develop at a cost of $4million. Army chiefs hope to use the drone’s tiny camera to spy on enemy positions in war zones without arousing detection and eventually deploy it into both rural and urban environments. Unsuspecting: The tiny hummingbird spy drone has a wingspan of just 16 centimetres and propels itself like a real bird - just by flapping its little wings Experts hope the drone, which can fly just by flapping its wings, compared with current models which rely on propellers, will eventually be able to swoop through open windows and perch on power lines. Test: The $4million project has taken five years. He added: ‘This is a new form of man-made flight’.
How Iconic Album Cover Illustrator Robert Crumb Brought Comics to Music by Maria Popova What Janis Joplin has to do with rediscovering yesteryear’s forgotten masters. Alex Steinweiss may be the father of the modern album cover, but Robert Crumb is its favorite weird uncle. Though best-known as a pioneer of the underground comix movement, the subversive artist had long been fascinated with the music of the 1920s and 1930s — jazz, big band, swing, blues, cajun — so when, in 1968, Janis Joplin asked him to design the cover for her album Cheap Thrills, it was the beginning of R. R. In this narrated short, Crumb, who eventually learned to play the uke, banjo, and mandolin himself, talks about the convergence of his two passions: Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. You can also become a one-time patron with a single donation in any amount: Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter. Share on Tumblr
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Aurum Light Blog Massimo Listri History of Our World | Life, Death and Basinski. Amazing Fire Photography by Tom Lacoste (with Interview) Welcome to another cool and “dangerous” showcase! Our special guest today is Tom Lacoste, a very young French artist. He is not the kind of artist we are used to: first of all, he’s a juggler and then a photographer! That is pretty darn amazing and we are honored to ask Tom a few questions about the different aspects of his life. “nameless” Q: Howdy Tom! A: Hi! “Firewall” Q: I can see from your photos that there’s a lot of passion in what you do and I’m particularly amazed by the fire photographs. A: Fire is my main subject, and it was my first love in photography, because at the beginning, what you see on the screen is nothing you could imagine at the moment when you’re taking the picture. “Another Firewall” Q: What about the jumping photos? A: I don’t take photographs every day and I usually prefer to prepare a little shooting with friends, to show the art they master. “Boing XII” “Boing VI” “Boing XI” Q: What kind of gear do you use? Q: What other hobbies do you have besides photography? l
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