Foursquare's is coming up with a new Android app, adding in some latest motion effects and integrating a few of its month's iOS tweaks. That first feature, best known in the video community as the "Ken Burns effect," animates location header images with panning and zoom. You can still scroll through the top five photos from each venue, but images up top won't stop moving until you head over to the full-screen gallery tool. Other cosmetic adjustments include a refreshed sidebar, complete with avatar, and an updated profile page that matches the iOS equivalent. In a blog post today, Foursquare also referenced faster load times, though we didn't notice much of a difference in a quick side-by-side test. Enhanced performance or not, the new version is clearly an improvement. It's available today on Google Play.
One random tweet, that was all it took to start an awesome project. One insane Australian auto enthusiast and his bizzare nutty friend from Romania made all our childhood dreams come true by building an amazing hot rod out of Legos. Yupp, you read that right, it was built from Legos. It actually runs — on air — and the fact that it isn’t any faster than a bicycle does nothing to diminish its brilliance.
Both guys used more than 500,000 Legos, along with a set of tires, some load-bearing bits, and gauges, to build the suitably named Super Awesome Micro Project. Powering this yellow beast are a four orbital engines with a total of 256 pistons — all made with Legos — driven by compressed air. They can get the hot rod up to 18 mph. It could go faster, but “We were scared of a Lego explosion so we drove it slowly,” said Sammartino. The build took place in Romania before the Super Awesome Micro Project was shipped to Australia for its debut.
