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Make has a post about a series of videos that zoom into objects to the atomic level. MAKE: Blog: Zoom into steel (to the atomic level!)

Pretty weird.

Hologram Google Earth is an amazing prototype computer display. Forget about multi-touch if this is a real display it will blow that away. Amazing video.

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.

Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?… turns out it’s ice, not salt.
Awesome! There was once water on mars!

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.