I love Ferrofluid. I don’t pretend the beginning of this video, but I can certainly understand the awesomeness of the second part of the video.
Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Up With Magnets! Boing Boing
It seems that a research group took some LIDAR and did a mapping of the Stonehenge area. This is a pretty short 3d rendering of that data mostly fly overs of the area.
Stonehenge: virtual 3D animation – Boing Boing
Awesome video of a substation producing a Jacob’s ladder. I have no idea why this happened, I’d assume some kind of break down that allowed it. It is pretty spectacular.
YouTube – Jacob’s Ladder: 500kV Switch Opening
Looks like the Adler Planetarium has an interesting exhibit setup to showcase the images taken by LRO! It’s a virtual fly-by using the images taken from the LRO’s 500 megapixel camera.
Digital Displays at Adler Planetarium BizTech Magazine
Looks like NEC is making great progress toward a universal translator. I think the best part about this is the projection onto the retina. This might just start leading the way in augmented reality devices.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart spectacles aid translation
I must admit I’ve been a bit lax in posting one of the more interesting new pieces of Mathematics that has come around. I’ve enjoyed fractals for a long time and some of my first programs where of Sierpinski’s triangle, and the Mandelbrot. This has been saturating the interwebs, so I was reluctant [...]
From the “seriously, WTF?” files. Turns out a linguist is hell bent on messing up some children by only speaking Klingon to them.
Me thinks these(this) child might end up like Comic Book Guy.
Klingon as a First Language – Boing Boing
Make has this interesting video of a bomb proof kevlar wall. While it is neat there are a number of things that really don’t make sense to me here. First the wallpaper is held to the frame of the rig, as long as the wall paper doesn’t rip then the wall isn’t going [...]
As a person with Asthma I found this device and demonstration very interesting. It’s amazing what simple little things can make a world of difference for some. They’re waiting for FDA approval, but I wonder if they have a way to measure the impact that this little device is going to have in [...]
Boing Boing shows this amazing video of a photographer from National Geographic. He went to document Leopard seals, but instead had a giant dangerous predator try and feed and adopt him.
Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins – Boing Boing