Everybody Feels the Wind Blow

Did you feel it?

We've actually seen this megaphone idea implemented before. While it's probably easiest to just go ahead and plug your iPhone in rather than trying to mechanically amplify the sound waves with a series of cones and chambers, that hasn't stopped some designers from putting together some intriguing devices for making your iPhone louder (and clearer?).

All that said, we'd like to say this "acoustic horn" manufactured out of ceramic and placed on a walnut tripod was just another jokey accessory, but given how well-designed it looks? We'll just say: No comment.

No Comment: The iPhone Megaphone originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, does a really good impersonation of Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Jean-Luc Picard. In fact, it was good enough to fool Stewart’s wife on the phone — at least for a while. Here’s a video of Spiner demonstrating this talent at the 2011 Emerald City Comicon. -via reddit

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Stacy and I made a stop at this park when we were in Chicago last year - the sculpture is huge and remarkably fun to walk around. Also, keep your eyes out for the well hidden pump-jack in the park.

This cool picture by redditor ZeLittleMan was taken with mirrored shades and a mirrored sculpture. Specifically, he used Cloud Gate, a huge outdoor stainless steel sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park. -via reddit

In what looks like some kind of truck that is outfitted with 40,000 watt stereo a young woman finds out exactly what some thumping base can do to your hair. Would hate to car pool with the guy who drives that.  Her hair blows up from what I assume are the sound waves?  (Can anyone here go all Bill Nye and explain to us how the stereo makes her hair do that?)

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A quick 365 days after we launched the project, the community finished up 2.0 today! Briefly, what's new:

• We shifted to using normalize.css instead of the bulldozer reset.css (and base) approach. This ends up being smaller, faster, and easier to develop with.
• IE6 users will now be prompted to install Chrome Frame by default. It's time. :)
• The build script continues to get massively improved: any css @imports get inlined into your file before it gets concatenated with other files and minified together, the application cache's manifest is generated automatically for you if you want to take your app offline, also this whole build process is way faster now.
• Build script also has optional tasks for CSSLint, JSHint, splitting your CSS into modules, and more customizability.
• Added respond.js to allow true responsive development; use media queries with full cross-browser support now!
• PNGFix, Handheld.css removed along with lots of other smart removals. The full h5bp payload is now smaller and faster than ever.

View the much larger/detailed++ announcement at h5bp.com/#v2.

We've also added Mathias Bynens and Nicolas Gallagher, two very talented frontend researchers and developers, to the core development team.

Thanks to all the many many awesome code contributions, discussions, and most importantly research and documentation that lead to world-class front-end development!

Thanks: alrra, Adeel Ejaz, David Murdoch, Jonathan Fielding, Robert Ros, Mathias Bynens, Nicolas Gallagher, Mickael Daniel, Jonathan Verrecchia, Calvin Rein, Rob Larsen, William Meleyal, Bruno De Barros, Mike Almond, Frank, Joey Baker, Ben Word, Mike Botsko, Carlos Rosquillas, Todd H. Gardner, rdeknijf, John Attebury, Ryan Seddon, Dayle Rees, Ryan Smith-Roberts, Brian Blakely, Steve Heffernan, Barney Carroll, Osman Gormus, Jason Tokoph, See Guo Lin, Jeremey Hustman, James Williams, John-Scott Atlakson, stereobooster, walker, François Robichet, leobetosouza, Matthew Donoughe, Patrick Hall, Andy Dawson, Daniel Filho, Clément, Joe Morgan, Han Lin Yap, Gregg Gajic, Michael Cetrulo, Robert Doucette, lexadecimal.com, Adam Diehm.. and more people I'm sure… like Gavrisimo ♥ and Guillaume Moulin (Ping me and I'll add you! (sorry!)

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So feel free to dig into the 2.0 code and join the fun development community at our github issue tracker where we welcome all frontend hackers and researchers. Hop on the follow train of @h5bp for project news as well. Thanks everyone