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This weekend I took the family to London . Outside of work I rarely get to go and, having been born in Dublin , most of the children had never been. We had a lovely time doing the tourist thing and I even got to take some photographs too. Here are a couple of my favourites. Read Full Story

Sorry for the sparseness of the posts over the last few days. I've had quite a bit on, but no excuses, just on with the show. Here's a bit of fun. US college baseball players keep the crowd entertained during an extended rain delay. Read Full Story

This is pure brilliance. YouTube user FreddeGedde creates multiple versions of himself to perform a great cover of Killer Queen by Queen. Read Full Story

I have posted about the band OK Go several times before. They seem to have a real wacky genius when it comes to their music videos and the latest is no exception. Enjoy! The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet . OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played... Read Full Story

So of course this blog is an eclectic mix of my interests, but sometimes I'm lucky to come across things that just tick all the boxes for me, and this is one of those times. sillysparrowness describes herself like this... A German teacher with a leaning towards silliness and a bunch of quirky likes, obsessive enough to regularly upload videos, sometimes about school, sometimes about anything I find inspiring, always about chickens (at least in spirit). ...And she decided to build... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Hello loyal readers (including the lurkers that I don't know about). Those of you that have been following this blog for a while will remember that it wasn't always hosted at e-clecticism.blogspot.com but once had its very own domain of e-clecticism.com. Sadly this was hijacked from me when I wasn't reminded of its renewal and I lost an awful lot of followers in the process. I have resigned myself to the fact that e-clecticism.com is long gone and  is never to return... Read Full Story

How do computers see the world? It might not come to a shock to you, but computers don’t see like you or I do. They are programmed to recognise something, like movement or a change in brightness, and then, if the programmer wants, they are given parameters by which they can visualise what they “see”. The following video is a look at how something we've designed can make the world we know so well, seem so foreign and complex. Robot readable world from Timo on Vimeo . Related articles... Read Full Story

Are you familiar with Google's Search By Image feature? If not, you may want to watch this before watching the video below. Sebastian Schmeig , a Berlin -based artist, set up a recursive image search algorithm and animated the results at 12 images per second, tracing its evolutionary drift. Beginning with a transparent .png image file, the "Search By Image" function turns up the most similar image it can find and then searches for the closest match to that image, and so on. The resulting flip... Read Full Story

Are you familiar with Google's Search By Image feature? If not, you may want to watch this before watching the video below. Sebastian Schmeig , a Berlin -based artist, set up a recursive image search algorithm and animated the results at 12 images per second, tracing its evolutionary drift. Beginning with a transparent .png image file, the "Search By Image" function turns up the most similar image it can find and then searches for the closest match to that image, and so on. The resulting flip... Read Full Story

I have posted about quadrocoptors before but this is definitely worth watching. The GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) lab at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a nano version and linked several together so that they can fly in quite intricate formations. A swarm if you will. Related articles Quadrotor Swarm of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at) UPenn's GRASP lab unleashes a swarm of Nano Quadrotors (InnovationToronto.com) Swarm of little flying... Read Full Story