Tag: Angry Birds

Bird. Meet camera.

I like where the ubiquity of cameras is taking us.

Band makes film clip using iPhone games in real life as viral fodder…

… and I fall for it.

Angry Birds Cookbook – how to cook an egg (in multiple ways)

How eggciting.

It’s available from Amazon

Some kids put this book through its paces on YouTube…

Angry Birds in Real Life (for angry bird watchers)

Do you have any idea how much the bird watching industry is worth world wide annually? No. Well. It’s billions. More than $36 billion in the U.S alone. Angry Bird watching is a little known subset involving smart phones, iDevices, and the internet. Merge the two and you’d be on some sort of cash cow. Or cash crow. Here’s an example of what the Angry Birds might look like in real life.

From DeviantArtist Mohamed Raoof

Possible explanation for the slaying of Goliath

Archeologists may or may not have discovered something important about events in pre-Davidic Israel.

Via Ragamuffin Soul

Shirt of the Day: Furious Fowl

Pretty cool real life Angry Birds design – available on Threadless.

Real Life Angry Birds

A nice little video from Rooster Teeth.

Playable Angry Birds Cake

Firstly, the concept of a playable cake, in itself, is pretty cool. But look at this….

Thanks to Amy, who sent me this video.

Lego Angry Birds

I’m not sure that encouraging one’s children to build Angry Birds out of Lego and building things for them to knock down with a slingshot is a good idea. But here are some Angry Birds in Lego for your inspiration:

Created by Tsang Yiu Keung (Facebook page), via The Jailbreak.

Angry Bird Beanie: For people who like headbutting pigs

This is a fun game.

Step 1. Buy these beanies from etsy.
Step 2. Run around headbutting people you don’t like, yelling ” die pig, you stole my eggs.”

DIY Angry Birds

If I were crafty I’d make these. But I’m not that kind of crafty. Instead – I’ll craftilly put this out there and hope that crafty people in my life get the message and make them for me.

Patterns and a how to are here – at Obsessively Stitching.

Questioning the premise of Angry Birds

What happens when the troops start questioning the methods employed by their generals? Revolution. That’s what.

And so it begins.

Angry Birds: Genus genius

I like.

From Flickr, via Kottke.org a while back

I also like these (from the same Flick(sta)r… zero-lives.

Angry Birds Plush Toys, not actual size

TechCrunch has a scoop (not uncommon for the leading blog about goings on on the Internet). Everybody’s favourite iPhone game characters, the Angry Birds, are becoming tangible. Check out this range of plush toys headed your way (TechCrunch has photos of all of them).

Now, I can tell you that these birds aren’t actual size because somebody smart at
Wired/a> conducted some mathematical modelling on the game to determine its physics, and as a result, calculated that the red bird is five metres tall.

They worked out that there’s no air resistance in the angry birds world, and thus, gravity is the only force working on the bird (which moves at 2.46 angry birds per second in the horizontal direction).

“The only force acting on the bird (if the bird is not moving too fast) would be the gravitational force from the Earth. This is where I see lots of intro-student mistakes. They tend to want to put some force in the horizontal direction because the bird is moving that way. DON’T do that. That is what Aristotle would have you believe, but you don’t want to be in his club. There is no horizontal force in this case – no air resistance.

Check out the maths at Wired to see how the calculation of the bird’s height (actually 4.9m) was made.