Produced by Lithuanian director Rimantas Lukavicius (Korb) for “I’ll be gone”, a song by Mario Basanov & Vidis feat. Jazzu, this video takes a simple idea, four cardiographs tracing lines across sheets of paper, and turns it into a visual masterpiece. Check it out:
“Our Place in the Cosmos”, the third video from the Symphony of Science series, was crafted using samples from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Richard Dawkins’ Genius of Charles Darwin series, Dawkins’ TED Talk, Stephen Hawking’s Universe series, Michio Kaku’s interview on Physics and aliens, plus added visuals from Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, History Channel’s Universe series, and IMAX […]
In the following video, Bill Nye demonstrates a scale model of the solar system by riding his bike across a barren plain. Richard Dawkins wrote this about our planetary system: Find a large open space, and take a soccer ball to represent the sun. Put the ball down and walk ten paces in a straight […]
Produced by Youtube user LegoAgentJones, the following video shows a re-creation of the famous bullet time dodge scene that wowed the world back when the first instance of The Matrix movie came out. Enjoy! [Via BuzzFeed]
Ok, maybe that headline is a bit strong, but I can’t help and feel this way after watching this: This absolutely amazing ad was produced for the New Zealand Book Council to promote real books, not those soulless eBooks that have recently been popping around all over the place. I don’t know about you guys, […]
When we listed James May in our top five sexiest male geeks in Britain, we noted he had been working on a very special toy project. Some of that work has now aired on TV in James May’s Toy Stories, and it’s geek to the max. The concept of the show is that May (who […]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means that – for those of you in America anyway – many of you will be having the great joy of (or coping with, depending on how you feel about them) having some quality family time. And the family that geeks out together stays together… so here’s a few examples of […]
Thanksgiving is just about to dawn here in the US, and that means one thing: everyone’s obsessed with Black Friday sales. And it’s no different for the geeks, all striving to get the best deals on hardware, gadgets, movies and games. I’ve always hated the juxtaposition of Thanksgiving and the crazed Black Friday sales. I […]
Yes, a Cylon birthday cake… with a shifting, glowing red eye. Now how awesome is that? [Via Neatorama]
A senior Apple executive has refused to apologize for problems with the approval process for applications with the iPhone app store. That’s despite a combination of developers complaining that perfectly good apps get delayed or rejected, and some clearly inappropriate apps make the cut. To recap some notable decisions, Apple has said “yes” to a […]