No, this portrait isn’t made up of thousands upon thousands of magnetic sculpture beads. The metallic wonder’s lifelike contours and shimmer comes from painstakingly hand-placing 13,000 variably sized platinum beads.
Computers love to think in triangles
Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest resolution and ppi for a smartphone panel.
This Fantastic Website Shows How Far Mars Really Is from Earth (Spoiler: It’s Faaaaar)
Posted in: Today's Chili This ingenious website made by David Paliwoda shows how far Mars is from Earth in a metric all us Internet lovers understand: pixels. If Earth was a 100 pixels wide, how far would Mars be? To start off, the moon would be 3000 pixels away (and 27 pixels wide). Mars? More »
The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2
Posted in: Today's Chili The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device-iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch-that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2 because its pixels are smaller. More »
Attention all ye hoodlums, thugs, and general ne’er do wells: the days of the wooly ski mask are over—at least, over for 333 of you. More »
Whereas pixillation is usually very successful at obscuring images otherwise unfit to be seen, the US Army is $5billion in the hole, with its pixellated camo uniform (introduced in 2004) being dubbed a colossal mistake. More »