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12 Christmas gifts for travellers | Atlas & Boots
This year has been a life-changing one for us. Three-and-a-half years after we moved to the country, we took the decision to move back to London. We missed our friends and family too much and, after two years under the pandemic, knew it was important to be close to them. And, so, in February, we sold our house and moved 240 miles across the country. We are now settled in our new home in East London and happier than we’ve ever been, despite the change in our finances (hi, London prices). Things feel settled, but, of course, being inveterate travellers, we are never settled for long. The post 12 Christmas gifts for travellers appeared first on Atlas & Boots.
12 Christmas gifts for travellers | Atlas & Boots
This year has been a life-changing one for us. Three-and-a-half years after we moved to the country, we took the decision to move back to London. We missed our friends and family too much and, after two years under the pandemic, knew it was important to be close to them. And, so, in February, we sold our house and moved 240 miles across the country. We are now settled in our new home in East London and happier than we’ve ever been, despite the change in our finances (hi, London prices). Things feel settled, but, of course, being inveterate travellers, we are never settled for long. The post 12 Christmas gifts for travellers appeared first on Atlas & Boots.
20 best travel apps to download in 2024 | Atlas & Boots
As travel writers, we're often asked about our favourite travel apps. For a long time, we stuck to old and reliable apps that performed prosaic functions like looking up locations or booking accommodation. The post 20 best travel apps to download in 2024 appeared first on Atlas & Boots.
Arctic Circle Trail packing list: all you need in one place
Our detailed Arctic Circle Trail packing list includes everything you’ll need on a trek through Greenland’s wild and remote backcountry. Having just returned from my adventure trekking the Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland I thought it would be useful to share my Arctic Circle Trail packing list as a point of reference for future trekkers. The post Arctic Circle Trail packing list: all you need in one place appeared first on Atlas & Boots.
This Blood Orange Speaker Is Made Out of Cement And Sits on Your Desk
Concrete is apparently a more robust material than we thought. Vietnamese designer Duc Vu Anh has devised a concept for a nimble portable speaker made entirely out of concrete. It’s just a concept at this juncture, but if the unit is ever manufactured for sale, it could provide users with high-quality audio. To operate the innovative speaker, the user would simply tap the top of it to turn it on and do the same to turn it off. There are four physical buttons, which allow it to be turned up and down, play and pause music, and connect to Bluetooth. The device would also have a USB port on the left side to recharge the battery. According to Anh’s technical sketches of the speaker, it will use high gloss paint, concrete, ABS plastic and translucent plastic. And there...
This App Uses AI to Generate Custom Playlists
The search for the perfect playlist just got a whole lot easier. In the latest test of generative artificial intelligence, PlaylistAI is a new platform which yields the promise of creating full, personalized playlists with just a couple of user inputs. The company explains that such inputs could be a variable combination of user prompts, images, videos and more. Have a certain mood or theme of music you’re looking to curate? The PlaylistAI app can run even with oddly specific requests, such as a playlist that captures the spirit of “playing board games on a rainy day.” Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The AI can also generate a playlist from images. Just feed the program an image of your favorite festival flyer and watch it work wonders, deriving the names of the a...
Burning Man’s Mayan Warrior Is Using Blockchain Tech to Fund Art On the Playa
Fans of the legendary Burning Man metropolis and its devoted Mayan Warrior community have a new way to preserve its future prospects both on and off the playa. Blockchain technology has long been lauded as a more transparent and cost-effective means of fundraising. Now Mayan Warrior, one of the world’s premier artistic communities is embracing its possibilities. The organization, which operates as a 501(c)(3), has announced the “Mayan Warrior Amulet,” an offering of digital assets to directly support the artistic endeavors that have built the community into a creative powerhouse over the last decade. By purchasing the blockchain-powered assets, the community’s members can directly fund artists to help “produce, bring, and display their live interact...
This Astonishing Digital Piano Uses “Flying Drones” as Speakers
Speakers for any modern devices are typically built right in to the device, but Roland is thinking outside the box—or piano—for their 50th anniversary. The fabled electronic musical instrument company debuted its ambitious digital piano concept piano at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The piano features a sleek body made of Japanese oak with a touch panel in the lid, and it hides a 14-speaker, 360° system, per Engadget. But the unit’s standout feature is its innovative flying drone speakers, which “hover over the piano” and “bathe the player in a sound shower.” The speakers are said to float around and change positions, communicating with the piano on a low-latency channel developed in-house by Roland. Roland̵...
Researchers Print the World’s Smallest Vinyl Record With Nanoscopic Accuracy
There’s very little holiday cheer to be found on this Christmas record printed by DTU Physics at the Technical University of Denmark. That’s because it’s a record so small that it could fit within a single groove of a standard sized copy. This impressive feat of engineering marks the world’s smallest vinyl printed record, and it holds just 25 seconds of “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.” In a demo showcased by the university’s DTU Physics organization, the Nanofrazor Scholar 3D lithography system presses a 15×15 micrometer record into polymer film. More impressively, the depth of the grooves inscribed on this sliver of a record are just 65 nanometers deep. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles “I have done lithography for ...
Wimbledon Tennis Balls Find New Life as Portable Bluetooth Speakers
Tennis fans can now share in the sounds and spirit of Wimbledon right from their own home. Heroes of the sport darted around the court in 2022, chasing and striking Wimbledon’s highlighter-yellow balls to hoist one of the most storied trophies in all of sports. Now, the Slazenger-emblazoned balls that defined Wimbledon’s high-stakes gameplay are finding new life as novelty speakers. The company has made their mark creating a sustainable path forward for tennis balls after they’re “retired” from tournament play. Produced by hearO, the units are one-touch bluetooth speakers embedded in the shell of an actual tennis ball used on the iconic grass courts of the All England Club at the 2022 Wimbledon tournament. The hearO 3.0 bluetooth speaker is made with an ...
Of The Trees Is Developing a Custom Game for Nintendo’s Original Gameboy Color
Of The Trees has announced a new video game, complete with a storyline, custom-made pixel art, soundtrack and more. Taking to Twitter to reveal the project, which is inspired by the “lore” of his recent music releases, the renowned bass music artist said the game will run on the original Gameboy Color. Of The Trees is developing the game and its infrastructure independently. “i’m actually working on a game right now, centered around all of the lore attached to my last few releases,” Of The Trees wrote. “pixel art, soundtrack, storyline, scripting – all by yours truly.” Of The Trees performing at Global Dance Festival in Denver, Colorado. Brian Rapaport/EDM.com Of The Trees also shared a clip teasing the game’s design, which follows a cha...
ILLENIUM Launches Decentralized Fan Community
Thanks to blockchain technology, “Illenials” now have access to ILLENIUM like never before. The Grammy-nominated dance music superstar has launched “The Phoenix Family,” a new community offering his diehard fans “first access for all things ILLENIUM.” Powered by the Polygon blockchain, “The Phoenix Family” was developed in partnership with Medallion, a Web3 platform that helps artists enhance their connection with fans. The community’s name derives from ILLENIUM’s signature emblem depicting a phoenix, which he integrates into his logo, visuals, merchandise and more. ILLENIUM performs at Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival on September 3rd, 2022. Christian Wade/EDM.com Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles “...
