Atlanta-based filmmaker Walt Thompson has created this fun stop-motion animation entirely out of LEGO for the very special purpose of proposing to his girlfriend. The short film tells the story of their courtship and even features a few Star Wars Character! [FIREPIT PICTURES | Via Technabob]
Looks like something Keith Apicary would wear… but he’d probably go for the Neo Geo line instead. [Via]
Best Dorkly short EVER. [Dorkly]
New videography techniques have opened up the oceans’ microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain. [Source: The Plankton Chronicles […]
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 […]