frankylicious » Inventions http://frankylicio.us Geekiness with Attitude Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 10/GUI, The Future of The Tablet or The Cintiq Killer? http://frankylicio.us/inventions/10gui-the-future-of-the-tablet-or-the-cintiq-killer/ http://frankylicio.us/inventions/10gui-the-future-of-the-tablet-or-the-cintiq-killer/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:31:13 +0000 franky http://frankylicio.us/?p=1252 10/GUI this seems like it could be the future of any form of computing: tablets or Cintiq killer. With or without extended fingerboard.

I bet that Steve Jobs and John Ive are already looking at this, just as the Cintiq team are.

Via Scrivs.

]]> http://frankylicio.us/inventions/10gui-the-future-of-the-tablet-or-the-cintiq-killer/feed/ 0 Wrong way water fountain. This actually is brilliant http://frankylicio.us/inventions/wrong-way-water-fountain-this-actually-is-brilliant/ http://frankylicio.us/inventions/wrong-way-water-fountain-this-actually-is-brilliant/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:42:34 +0000 franky http://frankylicio.us/?p=1088 At this year’s Chelsea Garden Show, inventor James Dyson presented his MC Escher based ‘Wrong Garden’ water fountain. This is a great illusion and an even smarter creation.

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The water actually is not going upwards, but the smart creation pump the water up towards the top of the ramp, where then it it split in two ways: one falls down the ‘waterfall’ and the rest slides down the ramp, with added air bubbles to make it look more real. The illustration after the jump shows how it actually works.

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