100 of YouTube's Coolest Science Experiments |
- 100 of YouTube's Coolest Science Experiments
- Farmville Craze Extends to Cake Art
- Rotating Kitchen Makes One Huge Mess
- HD Tour of the Brand New International Space Station
- Local Cat uses WonderHowTo... and the Toilet
- Run Your Car With Wood Chips
- The Captivating Art of Fire Dancing
- Digital Handgun Won't Fire Without Custom Wristwatch
- Teenager Invents Technology for Deep "Cave-Texting"
- Jerry Andrus and His Impossible Box
- The Smartest Way To Defend Yourself Against Home Intruders
- The World's Biggest Machine
- How'd He Do That?
- HowTo: Properly Benchmark Your PC
- Meet Disco: YouTube's Version of iTunes
- 1200 Old Light Bulbs Make One Dazzling Chandelier
- HowTo: Survive a Hostage Situation
- Build-It-Yourself Airplane for $2000
- The Urb Garden: The City Dweller's Solution to Growing Food at Home
- Artificial Organs Whipped Up With an Inkjet Printer
- DIY Pie in a Jar
- Multitouch Skin Transforms Any Surface Into a Touchscreen
- 1000's of the Web's Hottest Photoshop Tutorials & Resources
- Get Out of Farmville! Dr. Phil Treats an Addict
- Apple Founder Wozniak: Prius SOFTWARE Also Causing Out-of-Control Acceleration
- Fan Propelled Paper Airplane (Fake or Real?)
- Make it in the Music Biz: The Lessons of Lady Gaga
- Use an Old Kitchen Timer For Panning Time Lapse Video
- India's Human Powered Ferris Wheels
- Military Technology Used to Create Video Game Drone
- Supersonic Space Diver With Death Wish
- Thousands of Bouncy Balls Extended in Space
- The Web's Top Ten Prank Calls
- The 15 Best Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac & PC)
- Kid Juggles Soccer Balls Like a Circus Seal
- The Secret to Easy Pomegranate Seeding
- The Buddha With 1,000 Hands
| 100 of YouTube's Coolest Science Experiments Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:30 PM PST The X-Ray Vision-aries Blog has compiled a list of YouTube's 100 Coolest Science Experiments. I particularly enjoy their introduction to the selection: "Although YouTube has something of a reputation as a repository for the inane mental diarrhea of stunted man-children injuring each other for cheap laughs or shrill teenage drama queens shrieking like harpies over the latest bland, interchangeable lump passing as the epitome of masculine beauty, many others thankfully take advantage of its services as a portal to share their knowledge and educate viewers. While few of the scientific offerings ...more Related: |
| Farmville Craze Extends to Cake Art Posted: 11 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Internet culture loves many things, but there are two web crazes in particular that always grab my attention: the notoriously addictive facebook game, Farmville, and the insane art of cake decorating. We've posted quite a few amazing cakes in the past - the ultra realistic baby cake, the In-N-Out cheeseburger cake, the gruesomely awesome Star Wars wedding cake (just to name a few). WonderHowTo also has Farmville hacks pretty well covered. I'm happy to report that two of our favorites have now joined in a deliciously silly internet culture union: lovingly crafted Farmville cakes. Check out ...more Related: |
| Rotating Kitchen Makes One Huge Mess Posted: 11 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST Remember the room with a rotating view? Dutch artist Zeger Reyers brings us an equally interesting installation, created for the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. The kitchen has been rotating since November 27th, 2009, and will continue to do so until February 28th, 2010. Check out the second video in the gallery below for a close up. Ew, lots of food + three months of rotation = one icky mess. ...more Related: |
| HD Tour of the Brand New International Space Station Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:15 PM PST Take a tour of the ISS (International Space Station), just posted on YouTube this week. The ISS is an international project, including the five participant space stations: American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the European Space Agency (ESA). It has been under construction since 1998(!) and it scheduled for completion in 2011. Read more about the station on NASA's site. Previously, MIT Kids Beat NASA on Beer Budget with DIY Space Camera. Related: |
| Local Cat uses WonderHowTo... and the Toilet Posted: 09 Feb 2010 07:30 PM PST Since WonderHowTo's inception, we have had a preternatural affection for toilet trained cats. The inspiration started with Millenium Y2Kitty and his owner's earnest toilet training lesson. We showed the video to everyone (from ad execs and journalists to our mothers) to showcase what unbelievable information WonderHowTo seeks to promote. Then this weekend we saw with our very own eyes, our life's work in action. Sugar, age 10, showed us what he learned on WonderHowTo and it was brilliant (if not just a little gross). Sugar's mom, local fashion shop owner Nikki Nalepa has been training him ...more Related: |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Forget electric cars, quit mixing your at-home biodiesel; just attach one of Dutch John's handy wood gasification contraptions to the back of your car and fuel your transportation with backyard wood chips. Says DVICE, "This old Volvo modified by a guy calling himself Dutch John, uses a popular WWII process called wood gasification, where freshly cut wood chips are heated until they release gasses that can be used to run the engine. The catch is that you need to heat the wood up to around 2,500 degrees F, so you probably don't want to mount the gasification unit under your seat. A typical ...more Related: |
| The Captivating Art of Fire Dancing Posted: 09 Feb 2010 08:15 AM PST Hongkiat has compiled a collection of 30+ insane fire dancing images. Fire dancing has roots in many different ethnic cultures, influencing contemporary performance art (Cirque du Soleil, Burning Man, eroticism, and more). Inspired? Get started with some basic poi moves. Poi is a performance art that includes juggling, object manipulation, and in some cases, fire. Click through for image credits. ...more Related: |
| Digital Handgun Won't Fire Without Custom Wristwatch Posted: 08 Feb 2010 03:00 PM PST Another goody from Wired's Danger Room (previous post, the oh so very cute Koosh Bullet). This time the weapon on display is the amazingly "smart" handgun: a gun that won't shoot unless you're wearing the right watch. Says Wired, "German firm Armatix has an electronic safety that automatically disables the pistol when it's not within a few inches of a custom wristwatch. The watch sends a wireless arming signal to the gun. If the gun is picking up a signal from the watch, a green LED on the back lights up. Try squeezing the handle without wearing the watch, and you will see a red warning ...more Related: |
| Teenager Invents Technology for Deep "Cave-Texting" Posted: 07 Feb 2010 03:00 PM PST 16-year-old Alexander Kendrick has invented a low-frequency radio that allows for cave-texting, meaning deep underground cellular communication. Says Engadget, "Alexander's team of intrepid explorers went far enough (946 feet) to record the deepest known digital communication ever in the United States. What you see the young chap holding (pictured directly below) is the collapsible radio antenna, though plans are already afoot to ruggedize and miniaturize the equipment to make it more practical for cave explorers and rescuers." Pretty impressive, especially for a 16-year-old kid. Listen to ...more Related: |
| Jerry Andrus and His Impossible Box Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Below is a great video that shows a classic illusion designed and built by Jerry Andrus. Jerry is a backyard magician and illusionist who created his own kind of special magic tricks for his entire life, up until his death in 2007. Related: |
| The Smartest Way To Defend Yourself Against Home Intruders Posted: 03 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST Another interesting weapon via Wired's Danger Room: the Koosh bullet. These rubber bullets can incapacitate, but are highly unlikely of actually breaking the skin. "Lightfield has been selling these projectiles to law enforcement agencies and wildlife officials for years. Each round is filled with a soft projectile that resembles a koosh ball. They look like toys, because they're made by a Chinese toy factory. The best thing about them is that they aren't likely to kill someone even if they are fired at point blank range. They're so soft that they're almost incapable of penetrating the body." ...more Related: |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2010 07:15 PM PST Introducing the Bagger 288, built by Krupps in Germany. Weighing in at 45,000 tons, this bad boy is the biggest moving machine on the planet. According to Dark Roasted Blend, "If you discount CERN's Large Hadron Collider (which is officially the Largest Machine in the World), then the biggest MOVING machine built by humans would be the giant bucket wheel excavator 'Bagger 288' built by Krupp in Germany in 1978. This enormous mining machine (300 meters long, weight: 45,500 tons) is capable of moving on its treads to the various open-air mine locations. The last such epic transition ...more Related: |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Amazing work by artist Walee for BEAUX ARTS Magazine. Photoshop tricks? Photograph manipulation? Papercraft sculpting? How'd he do it? Anybody know? Previously, Paper-made Girls. ...more Related: |
| HowTo: Properly Benchmark Your PC Posted: 02 Feb 2010 07:30 AM PST Maximum PC posts a thorough guide on properly benchmarking your PC. For those not in the know, benchmarking is the process of "running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it." (Wikipedia) As Maximum PC says, "To care about benchmark is to care about performance. And to care about performance is to care about having more free time on your hands." So if you're looking to maximize your PC's performance and save some time in the long run, click ...more Related: |
| Meet Disco: YouTube's Version of iTunes Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:00 PM PST Says Metafilter, "YouTube has launched Disco. From TestTube - the GoogleLabs of YouTube - it's like Pandora lite with videos. Create and share playlists, or just search for an artist and see what it comes up with." Could YouTube be the new iTunes? I'm not so sure about that. But Disco does have some cool features. View full music videos for free, browse organized artist pages, and create playlists to share with others. Plus, you have the option to purchase songs via Amazon. However, it appears you cannot purchase videos for download, which nixes the option of uploading to a portable device ...more Related: |
| 1200 Old Light Bulbs Make One Dazzling Chandelier Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Tim Fishlock's piece entitled What Watt? showcases 1,243 suspended retired light bulbs, the center illuminated by one low-energy fluorescent bulb. Beautiful eco-friendly design. Says Fishlock, "What Watt? is a memorial to the incandescent lightbulb. It's a spherical chandelier made up of 1243 suspended bulbs of various shape and size, illuminated by a single low-energy light source. By 2011, Related: |
| HowTo: Survive a Hostage Situation Posted: 31 Jan 2010 03:00 PM PST |
| Build-It-Yourself Airplane for $2000 Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST Shell out a mere two grand and you can build yourself your very own operating airplane. Back in 1928, Bernard H. Pietenpol decided everybody should have the option of personal flight. So Pietenpol drew up the plans for the Pietenpol AirCamper, and guess what? His family is still selling the plans for it. Interested in building this classic model? First check out hobbyist Chuck Gantzer's site. He shares his step-by-step building process of the Pietenpol AirCamper here. ...more Related: |
| The Urb Garden: The City Dweller's Solution to Growing Food at Home Posted: 06 Feb 2010 04:30 PM PST Designer Xavier Calluaud offers a simple solution for the urban dweller with a green thumb. The "urb garden" enables those living in small spaces (without a yard) to grow food at home, or more specifically, herbs. The best part? The eco-conscious system has an integrated worm farm. The process is as followed: "Scraps of food are deposited into the worm farm, creating nutritious fertilizer. Water is added and the liquid fertilizer is delivered to the plants via a drip system. The water drains down the tank and then is pumped back up to be used with the next batch of fertilizer. As the plants ...more Related: |
| Artificial Organs Whipped Up With an Inkjet Printer Posted: 06 Feb 2010 03:15 PM PST Dr. Anthony Atala landed a place in PopSci's Best of 2006 with his homegrown bladders. Now Atala returns to the spotlight at a recent TED talk, discussing his current project of "printing" organs. Via TED, "Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints" human tissue." With Atala's research, organ donor waiting lists could be a thing of the past. Amazing ...more Related: |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2010 08:30 AM PST Luxirare brought you the delectable pie lollipop, AKA DIY Pie on a Stick. Now cooking blog Our Best Bites posts a tutorial on baking your own pie in a jar. Equally portable and delicious. Yum. More pie recipes on WonderHowTo. ...more Related: |
| Multitouch Skin Transforms Any Surface Into a Touchscreen Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Coming soon! Popsci reports that a multitouch skin that can make any surface a touchscreen will be released this summer. Portuguese company Displax will "market a multitouch capable, super-thin polymer "skin" that can be applied to any material -- flat, curved, opaque, transparent, you name it -- creating a digital muli-touch surface virtually anywhere, from a wristband to a desktop to a pane of clear glass." Very cool. Displax says that the skin will be able to detect even the subtlest of touches - even blowing on it. A futuristic, sci-fi existence is creeping closer, becoming more and more ...more Related: |
| 1000's of the Web's Hottest Photoshop Tutorials & Resources Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST Noupe has compiled an amazing collection of literally thousands of the highest-in-demand Photoshop tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files. "Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want." This incredible list is broken down by category for easy navigation. Check it out. (P.S. When you're done combing through that list, you may want to wander over to WonderHowTo's ...more Related: |
| Get Out of Farmville! Dr. Phil Treats an Addict Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST Facebook games have become a worldwide, web-wide addiction. Just take a look at all the tutorials on WonderHowTo alone. For most of us it's just fun and games (literally), but some have an addiction that merits the attention of the (perhaps officious) Dr. Phil. In a recent episode, Trends for 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Dr. Phil takes on a mother with a serious Farmville addiction. "Dr. Phil addresses Teresa. 'Are you worried about your crops as you sit here?' he jokes. 'Before I came here, I made sure that none of the crops were going to die,' she replies. Dr. Phil takes a ...more Related: |
| Apple Founder Wozniak: Prius SOFTWARE Also Causing Out-of-Control Acceleration Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:30 AM PST In today's Silicon Alley Insider, the legendary Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, says "his new Toyota Prius occasionally goes insane on the highway--and that it's a software problem, not a hardware problem. He has tried to tell Toyota and the US government, but they won't listen." Scary. Wozniak's says his 2010 Toyota Prius will "unintentionally accelerate to as much as 97 miles (156 kilometers) per hour when he uses cruise control to increase his speed". If Wozniak says the Prius has a software problem (beyond the well documented hardware problem), you've got to take this Toyota safety problem ...more Related: |
| Fan Propelled Paper Airplane (Fake or Real?) Posted: 03 Feb 2010 05:00 PM PST This video has generated half a million views and quite the comment stream on YouTube. A paper airplane is placed between two fans, and suspends in the air for some time. The comments predominately charge that the action is "fake" (has a wired been suspended?). The video is an art project by Camille Laurelli. Hard to tell, because her blog is in French, but it looks like the concept of the piece is to generate discussion over the validity of the action. What do you think? Fake or real? Beyond conjecture or opinion, if anyone has a scientific analysis please write in the comment box below. ...more Related: |
| Make it in the Music Biz: The Lessons of Lady Gaga Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST An article in Friday's Wallstreet Journal examines a model for success that can't be ignored: the world is just goo-goo for Lady Gaga. "Her debut album has generated four No. 1 songs. She topped the digital sales chart for 2009 with 15.3 million tracks sold. Her dance hits, including 'Poker Face' and 'Paparazzi,' recalibrated the sound of pop radio with a spacey Euro vibe that's crept into songs by rock and rap artists. She grabbed attention beyond the music world with outfits that make her look like a refugee from a sci-fi film. In concert, on video and at past awards shows she has sported ...more Related: |
| Use an Old Kitchen Timer For Panning Time Lapse Video Posted: 31 Jan 2010 07:45 AM PST Clever little cinematography hack. Flickr user rtadlock mods an old kitchen timer into a panning timelapse motor controller. Explanation video below. Not bad for just $6.50! (Another video on Flickr made with the set up and GoPro camera). ...more Related: |
| India's Human Powered Ferris Wheels Posted: 30 Jan 2010 03:00 PM PST We have seen it before (previous post: Human Powered Ferris Wheel), but it never gets any less amazing. Talk about resourcefulness. No need for electricity. Use humans to power your ferris wheel (if you had one sitting around... I wish I had one). Via Make, "At the Hindu Swasthani Mela festival held in Kathmandu earlier this month, I spotted a small ferris wheel that appeared to be non-functional. It consisted of four octagonal open-air cages and a simple metal frame. When two kids climbed into one of the octagons, though, a man got up on the other side and started jumping up and down ...more Related: |
| Military Technology Used to Create Video Game Drone Posted: 30 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST An iPhone-controlled drone unveiled at the recently held CES is expected to revolutionize the world of video gaming. Called the AR.Drone (AR stands for augmented reality), this new product will literally bring video games to the streets. Via Daily Mail, "The flying saucer-like AR.Drone's creators gave a demonstration near their company's offices on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris... One of the ten engineers who has spent four years developing the drone tapped a button on his iPhone to lift it off the ground and make it hover near the dark waters of the canal. Then he tilted the phone ...more Related: |
| Supersonic Space Diver With Death Wish Posted: 29 Jan 2010 03:00 PM PST Felix Baumgartner plans to leap a record 120,000 feet, breaking four world records. If all goes well, Baumgartner will set records for highest altitude freefall, longest distance freefall, highest manned balloon fight, and fastest speed freefall (he will actually break the sound of speed!). 120,000 feet is pretty damn high. High enough that the fall is expected to last six whole minutes. It's also high enough that valuable scientific data is expected to be collected for advances in future space travel. The project's technical director, Art Thompson, has expressed some concern regarding ...more Related: |
| Thousands of Bouncy Balls Extended in Space Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST Massive bouncy ball installation by Australian artist Nike Savvas. Entitled "Full of Love and Full of Wonder", each bouncy ball "represents the very atoms that are the fundamental structural units of all things". Reminds me of that amazing Sony Bravia commercial (scroll all the way down to view). ...more Related: |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:00 AM PST Blog Your Office and PA has compiled a list of ten telephone crank calls that range from giggle inducing to slightly uncomfortable to uh, somewhat... depressing. Click through to hear 'em all. Image Credit. Previously, PRANK WARS. ...more Related: |
| The 15 Best Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac & PC) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST There's no denying it- keyboard shortcuts make life a little simpler, a little faster. Cut down on those small annoyances, and pick up some tips from CNET. Image Credit. ...more Related: |
| Kid Juggles Soccer Balls Like a Circus Seal Posted: 28 Jan 2010 07:00 AM PST The art of juggling + serious freestyle soccer skills = talented Polish kid who (with a little practice) could possibly fit into a Cirque du Soleil act... ...more Related: |
| The Secret to Easy Pomegranate Seeding Posted: 27 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST Don't know about you, but I think pomegranates are delicious. However, seeding them is a huge pain in the you know what. So, here it is, a de-seeding trick so simple, it seems painstakingly obvious. Courtesy of Food Wishes. Image Credit. ...more Related: |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2010 09:45 AM PST Incredible dance production, Thousand-Hand Guan Yin, performed by China's Disabled People's Performance Art Troupe. All of the performers are deaf, which makes the choreography quite an amazing accomplishment. Check out the synchronized hand spinning at 2:39. ...more Related: |
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