He’re a little bubble wrap popping porn for all you hardcore bubble wrap poppers out there! 7×0.5m of twisted bubble wrap Vs 8m industrial hydraulic press folder. [Via Gizmodo | Bubble Wrap Picture from Bigstockphoto.com]
The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time? [Minute Physics]
The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon – setting the new world record for the Largest functional Rube Goldberg machine, according to World Records Academy. [Via The Awesomer]
Last year I jokingly wrote that graphene would be a dead cert if there were an awards ceremony for material of the year. It turns out the hits keep on coming in 2012: researchers at Berkeley believe graphene could make it easier to study liquids with a microscope. Graphene is made up of a single […]
He’s only cutting off the person’s hair, fortunately! The hair does count as the top of someone’s head, doesn’t it? The Multi-Arm UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) demonstrates its dexterity by shaving a volunteer’s head to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity committed in funding research for finding a cure for childhood cancer. […]
By Andrew Bridgman from Dorkly. Oh the truth, how it hurts! [Source: Dorkly | Via MUO]
This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas. [Via The Presurfer]
An awesome and uplifting little short movie featuring the Man of Steel by Los Angeles-based animator Mike Roberts. [Via Kuriositas]
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Stranger than fiction… molecular conflict and mitochondrial warfare … a heartstopping, subcellular epic … a truly microcinematic experience … “as an enthusiast for little things, I wanted to go deeper than the macro universe, so I found myself hanging on the eyepiece of a microscope. The real challenge was definitely the small depth of field […]