Here’s a wild video about something called a Prince Rupert Drop. Essentially a piece of glass is quickly cooled in water forming a drop with a tail. When removed the glass is virtually unbreakable, how ever if you remove the tail the drop shatters into tiny pieces.
Phoenix panorama - The Planetary Society has an attempt at creating a panorama of the Phoenix images to date. Quite an amazing view, I wonder what the mountains in the background are.
Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?… turns out it’s ice, not salt.
Awesome! There was once water on mars!
This site has a transistor clock. Made with no IC’s! Just tons of transister, diodes, capacitors and resistors. Amazing, I’d love to build something like this I don’t know I have the patience.
code_swarm has several cool open source repository visualizations. An interesting way to show the history and participants.
Video displaying the new BMW concept car covered in cloth. I personally think it’s great. Most likely it’s considerably more energy efficient to produce, and I think it’s definitely more attractive. Perhaps some day we’ll see this.
Airduino Scungy Anemometer I’ve been a large fan (no pun intended) of this blog for a while. Although here Keith shows the true ingenuity and usefulness of knowing how to create and construct things like this. A great thorough explanation of ingenuity and reused components to keep oneself cool.
Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.
I thought this a great little movie trying to explain what invisible magnetic fields might actually look like.