[From CNET; a story about a Nashville entrepreneur who tried the same thing this year is available in The Tennessean] [Image: A look inside the lights. Joe Stiglingh/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET] When you fly a drone into fireworks, it’s quite beautiful A YouTube video that’s currently inciting wonder shows a completely different perspective on a fireworks display. by Chris Matyszczyk July 5, 2014 The proliferation of controlled flying objects has incited many an imagination. Some believe drones should be used to deliver vacuum cleaners. Others might have more nefarious, prurient intentions. However, one man thought it might be entertaining…

[From the Daily Mail, where the story includes more images and two videos] [Image: Researchers have shown off their device called the revealing flashlight that can be used to digitally restore artefacts. Pictured is an artefact (1), while an input (in this case a finger at 2) is being used to manipulate a LeapMotion gesture device (3), which allows the user to ‘point’ where they want the projection to go] Shining a light on the past: ‘Virtual reality’ torch projects missing fragments on to ancient treasures, restoring them to their former glory Researchers led from Bordeaux have created an augmented…

[From Motherboard, where the story includes more pictures; for another perspective (!) and more examples, see “Flat design casts a long shadow” in WDD] [Image: An example of a long shadow in a flat design, from WDD] The Virtual Sun Is Finally Setting Written by Claire L. Evans, Futures Editor June 27, 2014 In 2006, I switched from PC to Mac in the midst of an aesthetic sea change called Web 2.0. Overnight, all my buttons and toggles became aqueous, squishy blobs. For my entire young life as a computer user, that place had been populated with beige file folders…

[From Road to VR, where the story includes more pictures and a 4:14 minute video] Kite & Lightning’s ‘Genesis’ is an Immersion-machine That Takes You on a Reality-bending Ride June 30, 2014 by Ben Lang When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn’t physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into a contraption that’s been presumed to be a torture device, a jungle gym, and yes, even a “sex machine.” Kite & Lightning is a creative development…