Gallery: Electric Trikes / vehicles

Last weekend I was in Antwerp, Belgium. The city centre was closed for car traffic to promote alternatives for clean urban transport. One of the solutions were these ‘reverse trike electric vehicles’. In the gallery above a quick view of different solutions that can be purchased nowadays. From DIY to James Bond like gadgets. Advantages:

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Counting wildlife with aerial imagery from drones

Crowdsouring the counting of wildlife with Aerial Clicker. Look for Rhino’s, Elephants, Giraffes etc with high resolution aerial imagery taken from drones. “As part of their wildlife protection efforts, rangers at Kuzikus want to know how many animals (and what kinds) are roaming about their wildlife reserve. So Kuzikus partnered with Drone Adventures and EPFL’s

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Startup: Glove translates sign-language to speech

    I met these guys pitch their idea yesterday at a startup bootcamp at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. They are developing a glove that makes it possible to translate sign-language gestures into speech. Furthermore they showed options where this gloved can be used in the security or military branch.   0000

Drone: Iris+ can follow its user with “follow me” function

“You can fly the Iris+ Drone manually using the controller or use the advanced 3PV Follow Me mode that turns IRIS+ into your own hands-free camera crew. And our tablet-based software makes flight planning exactly this easy: If you can draw it, you can fly it.” Prices start at $750 Source: 3D Robotics Iris+ 0000

Google Maps indoor with Slam Technology

Today Google releases six indoor maps created with their new mapping tool called Cartographer. Cartographer is a backpack equipped with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology. Example map: Hotel (click in the hotel, you can select the floorplans at your right). source: Google Latlon Blogspot 0000

TimeLapse: Yosemite HD II

Didn’t see this great timelapse yet, I thought it looked a bit like the TimeScapes 4K timelapse. Can’t wait to go hiking again. Source: https://vimeo.com/projectyose Want to make your own Time Lapses? Check: Camalapse 3 Timelapse maker 0000

Gallery: Cities at Night

Late night gallery. World cities at night. Click the images to open the high resolution images/wallpapers in a new tab. Source: 4Chan I do not owe any rights in these pictures. 0000