Audiopad: The look and feel of sound.

In the future, DJs will have you shaking your rump and raising the roof by interfacing with projected graphical interfaces that directly manipulate sound frequencies. Wait...thats not the future, that is happening now. James Patten and Ben Recht of localfields created Audiopad several years ago, and have been touching sound ever since. It just goes to show that at SciencePatrol, sometimes the future is the past.

The Uprising Will Be Televised:World War

In the robotic uprisings of the future, long after the machines have decimated humanity in a bid for global domination; the infighting will ensue. The vast legions of robotic war machines will turn in on themselves; separate factions all vying for the same prize. What results is a perverse form of mechanized violence that our fleshy, organic minds can only begin to fathom.
As it happens, this exact scenario is pre-supposed in this short film by digital artist Vincent Chai, as his final project at the University Of Hertfordshire. Watch now before your back is forced against the wall by robotic beings who will stop at nothing to end you. These things are imminent, you know.

The Artificial Animation of Plastic

Joshua Allen Harris is an artist whose medium is plastic bags, animated by blasts of air from subway vents and other unnatural sources. These videos are evidence of a strange new form of artificial life. My favorite is the air giraffe.

In Space, Noone can hear you [expletive].

From the delightful blog divine caroline comes this informative video explaining how astronauts manage to poop in zero Gs. In future dimensions, Astronauts will read SciencePatrol blog posts printed directly onto their rolls of toiletpaper, which will be constructed of carbon-nanotubes; able to withstand the high intensity gamma radiation bursts which they are subjected to while in range of the van allen belts.

This is Happening Now: Braid released on Xbox Live

Yanos Solong sat at the control panel of the ESME, the endlessly transforming 4-dimensional molecule that served as the Eventuality Survey Team's base of operations, playing a game of chess with the S.C.R.I.B.E. unit and watching the display screens. While on the surface everything appeared normal, Yanos had an impending feeling that an encroaching eventuality would soon present itself for investigation.

At the very moment that Yanos decided to castle on the king's side, an electronic buzzer sounded and the voice of ESME filled the cabin:

There is a new eventuality fold in the XBox Live community that I think you should take a look at, sir.

Sweeping the chess game off the coffee table for the moment, Yanos told the computer to display the relevant information from the Xbox Live server, but was greeted instead by an image of himself, looking slightly more unkempt, but otherwise identical.

"Yanos, this is Yanos + 48 hours on your current timestream. I've interrupted your vector to inform you that a highly important game named Braid has been released on Xbox Live. As you know, this occurrence has been highly anticipated among researchers into parallel timelines and alternate realties. The designer, Jonathan Blow, has produced a groundbreaking work, a training program for interdimensional travelers that is also a profound meditation into the nature of time and memory. I'm pleased to award Jonathan with the Medal of Infinite Density, and I want to thank him for providing humanity with his insight. Braid will become part of the Science Patrol Academy's virtualization training course, required playing for all enlightened beings. Now go forth and explore all vectors within the tenth-dimensional lightcone of existence. Solong out."

Warping the 11th Dimension

New word has reached Science Patrol headquarters of progress on a new type of theoretical hyperdrive. This warp engine was originally conceived by Michael Alcubierre, who imagined a spaceship surfing on a bubble of expanded space-time, but was unable to explain how space-time could actually be distorted. Now two theoretical mathematicians, Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy, have written a paper proposing that specific manipulation of the 11th dimension may allow the necessary distortion bubble to appear. This method of field manipulation will allow what has been referred to by some as "travelling without moving." The complete paper can be read here.

We're Ready to Believe You!

When your walking down the street, and you see a little ghost....whatcha gonna do? Ghostbusters!
From usual suspect Brickshelf comes both vehicles from ghostbusters 1 and 2. Ecto1 and Ecto1A were both constructed by user jminc, as no other sane human being would ever stack bricks like this. Both of these sculptures have PKG readings off the charts; whoever built them was either a complete genius or a certifiable wacko. Set protonic reversal rays to this link to see more pics of these creations.