#shape changing

[justufos]

Stunning UFO video, object changes shape on camera.

Stunning UFO video, object changes shape on camera.

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[superbooknerdthings-blog]

22. The Shape-Changer’s Wife by Sharon Shinn

    Things are not always as they appear. This may be a popular quote these days, even to the point of being almost cliche, but the underlying truth still holds. A young man, Aubrey, is a magician by virtue of innate talent developed through years of training under a benign mentor. One day, he is sent to his mentor’s rival to further his magical education. 

    His education expands his mind in ways he never could have imagined. This new teacher is rarely home. When he is, the two have thier lessons. When he leaves - sometimes for weeks at a time - Aubrey is left mainly to his own devices. As the weeks turn into months, he is puzzled by the strange servants... and the even-stranger Lady of the household. In time, Aubrey manages to unveil what he suspected almost from the beginning; that his host is up to something completely self-serving and harmful to those around him. 

    Aubrey must decide what, if anything, to do to help his new friends. He must unearth who the people around him are, what his host / tutor is doing to them, why the people in the village avoid this lot as much as they can. He must learn if there is anything he *can* do to help a magician most experienced, more powerful and more ruthless than he is. And he must do all this without tipping his hand too soon.

    While this book gets off to a bit of a slow start, there’s still enoug mystery to keep the story moving along. Once the action starts building, the momentum escalates nicely to the climax and pulls the reader right along. 

Next: Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders by Barry Day

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[kitchology]

How To Live In A Waste Free Food Technology Future

How To Live In A Waste Free Food Technology Future

Can Gigantic Daring Food Technology Morph Into The Mainstream?

The world of food technology is constantly morphing into something new. Specifically, today we’re talking about  advances in pasta shaping devices and changes in 3D printing. It really takes us to the edge of outside the box thinking, or maybe a combination of the two. Thanks to all this creativity we’re now transforming shape…

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[angel-ascending]

So I wrote a thing based off of @devilgate-drive‘s Spring Sprite Dan AU, which is here and also inspired by @theseusinthemaze‘s ficlet in that same verse, which is awesome.

Dan hates finding the traps. He knows logically that humans need to eat, and that they eat animals from the woods, but the traps are always upsetting to come across, like a nightmare lurking just under the surface of a good dream. Holly breaks the empty traps whenever she comes across them, and it’s something Dan can’t fault her for, not even a little.

The trap Dan had found this morning hadn’t been empty. The gray fox vixen had stared at him with the blank, unseeing eyes of the dead, the wire tight around her neck. Dan had stroked her course fur and hoped that she hadn’t suffered for very long, hoped that the hunter that had killed the beautiful creature would at least use every part of her. He’s walking away, feeling mildly sick and more than a little sad when he hears the tiny, high pitched cries.

It doesn’t take him long to find the fox den, the litter of kits making scared little yips and growls, backing up against the wall of their den. They’re scared and hungry, poor little things. Dan can feel himself changing to suit their need, his body sprouting gray fur, his pointed ears flicking as a gray tail with a black tip brushes between his legs. There are other changes as well, nipples sprouting down his chest to join the two he usually had in his two or four legged forms. He lays in front of the den, waiting, and he knows when his smell changes because the kits stop making their sad, scared noises and instead tumble out of the den to nuzzle at him and to suckle.

Dan sighs in a mixture of sorrow and contentment as the kits nurse from him, wincing occasionally when one of them nips him with sharp baby teeth. There will be no runts in this litter. He’ll have enough milk for all of them, for as long as they need him. For now he is a fox mom. Some point in the future he might be a bird mom, or a bear mom, but for now this is what is needed.

Dan yawns, and the four little kits, bellies full of milk, yawn with him. They curl up against him, in the warmth of his fur, making sleepy noises. Dan curls his tail around them, strokes their tiny furry bodies with his hand. They are so very very small, so fragile. He falls asleep, dreams them grown, running and playing and hunting in the forest. He feels proud, in the dream, like any mother would of their children.

[tescleanairsystems]

Researchers Develop Shape-Changing Smart Material

This is the first time researchers have been able to combine several smart abilities, including shape memory behavior, light-activated movement and self-healing behavior, into one material.

[dionnewolff-blog]

Nendo

A set of bowls for the KAMA. Sex & Design exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.The curators asked eight designers to create an object, in conjunction with an exhibition that explored ideas of eros in design from ancient times to the present, from a cultural anthropology and mythical perspective. We located the intersection of eros and design in the spiritual pleasure provided by an object’s touch, and decided to make an extremely thin bowl out of silicon for our contribution. The bowl resembles a ceramic one, but with a tension to this perception, generated by the extreme thinness that would be impossible to achieve with clay. The bowl changes shape as easily as liquid when it is touched, and continues to quiver momentarily in response to the outside force. We wanted to express eros through a design that invokes desire – a design that viewers simply can’t bear not to touch.

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[zoding]

saw The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In The Mouth of Madness back to back; during the drive home I started getting bugged out