Real Live Stuff of My Dreams

Last April Fool's Day I was a bit bad, revealing a fake illustration from the upcoming Goliath. But today, even though it's getting close to April 1, I am being TOTALLY FOR REAL with a random round-up of things that reality stole from ME:

Hovercams!

A company called Helimalibu provides flying cameras for "a variety of industries such as, Residential and Commercial Real Estate, high-level inspections for electric towers or HV lines, or for land survey and construction purposes." The film industry is considering using cameras of this type for movie-making. And, of course, police are using flying drones in all sort of ways.

For more, read this story at FastCompany.

Aviatrixes of Yore!

That's Amelia Earhart, aviatrix, trailblazing woman, and paragon of goggled hotness. I want that jacket.

Ganked from this story at QuiteContinental.

Tunguska!

These paintings by Bill Pullman, a meteorological painter, attempt to recreate what the Tunguska Event in Siberia looked like to those on the ground. This is the meteor (or something) strike that leveled millions of trees and for which Nicola Tesla attempts to take credit in Goliath.

Flash Tattoos!

Thanks to everyone who tweeted to me about Nokia's patent on vibrating tattoos. For those of you who missed the low-information internet storm about these tattoos, they're skinplanted ferro-magnetic patches that respond to a device (like a phone), so you can feel a very personal buzz when you have a call/message/eBay auction to attend to.

I'm sure at some point many of us will have implanted devices to make interfacing with the internet and machines easier, but I have one problem with a ferro-magnetic tattoo. What happens if some April Fool's Day prankster develops a "buzz broadcaster," a device that gives everyone around them a great big vibration?

Nothing good, I'm sure.

That's it. Have a fun April Fool's Day, and try not to be evil.