How a Man Flies Like a Bird

What does it feel like to fly like a bird by using a jet propelled wing? Only one man on earth knows, and he shared his story with the crowd at TED Global in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday.

Yves Rossy’s invention allows him to fly by attaching a 4-engine jet suit with wings to his back, which he starts up after jumping out of a helicopter or plane.

Unlike similar aircraft, Rossy’s has no steering controls. Rather, he uses his body to steer — arching his back gains altitude and pushing his shoulders forward sends him into a dive. “If you put steering in it’s more like an airplane … I wanted to keep freedom of movement,” Rossy told the TED Global crowd.

Traveling at speeds of up to 190 miles per hour and a height of 3,000 meters, the aircraft can stay in the air for about 10 minutes, which was enough time for Rossy to cross the English Channel. He also recently flew above the Grand Canyon.

The device isn’t quite ready for mass consumption, however. Rossy, who served as both a commercial and military pilot earlier in his life, has had to use the wing’s escape parachute about 20 times — sometimes after becoming disoriented in the clouds, others after more than one of the engines fails.

Rossy, who does hope that one day his invention or something like it could be used by anyone, summarized the experience by saying, “I don’t have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes. It’s an unreal feeling.”

You can check what one of his flights and invention look like in the video below from his Grand Canyon mission:

Photo fom jetman.com

Signs of being a Computerholic

Computer addiction refers to the excessive amounts of time spent on the computer. The preoccupation can cause problems with relationships and even with work performance. The time spent on the computer does not refer to work-related activities.

If you spend more then 15 hours a day on a computer you are a computerholic. If your job requires you to use a computer then spending more then 20 hours a day on a computer makes you a computerholic.

Here are some images showing what a computerholic did.

You work in your computer even when you are sick, I mean, really sick.

You take your computer to the bathroom with you.

Or even worse, you take your bathroom to your computer.

You have several computers, and you use them at the same time

You have keyboard keys as sleep prints

You neglect your kid.

You sleep at work and your office looks like this.

You stop caring for your personal hygiene.

You rather die than to live without your computer.

And when you do die, you ask to be buried under a computer gravestone.

Mirror and Reflection Photography

Art is the quality, production, expression, or realm, according toaesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Mirror reflections photography is one technique you can use when doing reflections photography. Using mirrors to capture reflections can produce great images. However, using mirrors can be very difficult to work with.

Using reflective surfaces is a great way to create abstract images. Often, images created using reflections have a more artistic appeal. Although any reflective surfaces can be used, mirrors are often the less chosen because they can be very difficult to work with.

The most important tip to follow when using mirror reflections for art or abstract images is to make sure the mirrors are clean. Blotches, spots, or a streak on a mirror is a great way to cause an image to loose quality.

Good photography is a reflection that can inspire us, that can move us,that can make us see those aspects of reality that our eyes were oblivious to before seeing them through the reflection on a lens.

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