With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you.
For our third week of 2015, we saw everything from a chocolate designs that alter taste based on texture alone, an update to Google’s Translate app and…dangerously (!!!) up-close footage of lava entering the ocean?
Ready? Let’s go!
This week we look at:
DESIGN
“Shed light on your last read page! A lamp shaped bookmark will give your books a bright and enlightening look.”
“Cocoa’s country of origin, kind, percentage content, technique of the chocolatier’s, the flavours inside … there are many factors that determine a chocolate’s taste … in coming up with a new chocolate concept, we turned our attention not to such factors, but to the chocolate’s shape.”
APPS
“Edit and organize images anywhere, anytime on your smartphone. Enhance everything from smartphone photos to raw DLSR images using powerful and familiar tools. Automatically sync all your mobile edits with Lightroom 5 on your desktop. Easily share all your photos to social media sites. With Lightroom mobile, your photography is going places.”
“Break through language barriers with Google Translate.”
DIY
Rotating Tip Ergonomic Slingshot
“It was time to try something new, something exciting, something….with moving parts. Slingshots aren’t known for moving parts, but it was time to try it out.”
“Some say that it’s hard to find beauty and brains, but what if you could have beauty where the brains should be?”
ROCK AWESOMENESS
Rare Up-Close Footage of Lava Entering Ocean
“Rare footage of lava entering the ocean from a very unique, dangerous and up close angle on the rugged volcanic coastline of the island of Hawaii.”
“Directed by Carroll Ballard (Never Cry Wolf, The Black Stallion), The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which he chronicles the building of an entire ESS Mainframe. It’s one of the best films in the AT&T Archives, a poetic musing on the connections between handwork and the act of communicating. In the film, he chronicles the act of making and building the mainframe with human hands so carefully that it becomes a handcraft, like weaving or sewing.”
And there you have it!
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