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.
March 29th, 2012 08:09
Er… Scott… it’s aviatrix.
March 29th, 2012 14:57
Indeed. Fixed.
March 29th, 2012 16:36
I want one of those hovercams that would be awesome. Of course nothing is more awesome then Amelia Earhart( except for Deryn Sharp)
March 29th, 2012 18:54
I luve the hovercam!!!! not eally how I pictured it but still!! Flash tattoo= must have! 4th comment!!
March 29th, 2012 18:55
woops…. love* really*
March 29th, 2012 18:56
stupid computer, I am NOT posting too fast!
March 29th, 2012 18:56
lalala Ima go check last FAF..
March 29th, 2012 19:47
Hahaha. Scott, how could you even assume that I would try not to be evil? I AM ALWAYS EVIL!!! Muahaha!
March 29th, 2012 22:03
Thank you for the fix! >^..^< And I love the hover-cam. It reminds me of something out of Spy Kids.
March 29th, 2012 22:38
Amelia Earhart= no hot, scott dear
March 29th, 2012 23:17
Awsome!! The hovercam and tatoo are awsome! 8)
March 30th, 2012 03:29
I just realized… I’ll be on spring break on April Fool’s, which means no pranking people
and no getting pranked! 
March 30th, 2012 03:38
So, speaking of that fake picture, could you give us more details and where in the world you or Keith came up with that idea? Is it suppose to be a bad dream?
And I am so thankful April Fools is on a Saturday this year. Because there is nothing worse than being an elementary school teacher on April 1. Just sayin’
March 30th, 2012 07:11
I SAW THAT THINGY FOR THAT TATTOO IN THE NEWS PAPER!!! When I saw it I was like, “wow, scott came up with this didn’t he?”
NO IMPLANTS FOR MEH. I have a thing about stuff in my skin… *is scared of needles*
I’ll try not to be evil, just for you Scott.
March 30th, 2012 07:43
We already have hovercams. They’re called helicopters.
March 30th, 2012 12:05
Psssshhh, that’s no hovercam!
Actually, imagined Moggle as a sort of Weebo (that camera from Flubber)
Go Earhart!!! She’s Deryn in the flesh =^^=
March 30th, 2012 23:41
WHY NO FAN ART?!?
March 31st, 2012 00:00
Oh… Well i won’t be evil any more today (I posted a… umm, weird video on facebook, April fools? Day early)
You people have NO IDEA how insane the world would be if ANYTHING from my dreams became real. *shudders*
April 1st, 2012 04:12
i miss the leviathan series!!! GOING BACK TO REREAD!!!!!!!
April 1st, 2012 19:47
I appreciate, result in I discovered exactly what I was taking a look for. You’ve ended my four day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye
April 1st, 2012 22:53
I will attempt to not be evil.
April 1st, 2012 23:56
Comment number= sad
April 2nd, 2012 01:43
Speaking of hovercams, I saw one of these recently at a Brookstone store:
http://www.brookstone.com/ar-drone-quadricopter?bkiid=ProductDetails|ConsiderationProducts|652479p
April 3rd, 2012 10:04
LALALALA
April 7th, 2012 08:18
Scott-la, have you seen the Google glasses?! I demand hoverboards next!
April 7th, 2012 23:53
@25: Those glasses can’t possibly work. They’re preposterous.
April 7th, 2012 23:53
But I want hover boards too!
April 7th, 2012 23:53
*hoverboards*
April 8th, 2012 18:05
@SteampunkJedi I hope they don’t work. People can barely text on mobile phones and walk as it is! But it is a step in the direction of eyescreens, I believe. Which would be ridiculous. Yet awesome all at the same time.
April 9th, 2012 08:07
@29: I agree.
April 10th, 2012 19:59
@19 I KNOW!!! I have done that about 20 billion times… I can probably recite most of it if I really, really tried.
@29 In my strange little happy world, eyescreens would mean ALL Beatles/White Stripes ALL the time. I would probably either a) forget how to talk, or b) start talking in a Liverpool accent. Which I sometimes do already…
April 10th, 2012 20:25
Has anyone here taken a gander at the Steampunk Bible? *says Ruth, pointing to book*
April 14th, 2012 03:05
@32: I must say I haven’t seen that book before.