Readers are always asking us to recommend a digital camera safe for kids. It is exciting when your kid starts to get bitten by the photography bug. It is time to give him or her a camera. For small hands, you need big...
Archive - 2012-03-18
Forms: Generative Animation of the 2012 Olympics
Forms Installation at the National Media Museum from Nexus Productions on Vimeo. ‘Forms’ is a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and...
Watch A Tick Survive Under An Electron Microscope
From edyong209 An electron microscope operates in a vacuum, firing a beam of electrons at the object under observation. Staved of air, bombarded by electrons, a tick does fine, thank you very much. When it was all over...
What does it Look and Sound like riding on the Shuttle Rocket Boosters?
From interbartolo At lift off, the shuttle burns over 1000 gallons of liquid propellants and 20,000 pounds of solid fuel every second to generate nearly seven and a half million pounds of thrust. What does all this...
IKEA Offers Do-It-Yourself Conductive Mittens
From smfbstats To launch the iPad version of the IKEA-catalogue in Norway, advertising agency smfb created a new IKEA product called “BERÖRA”. It’s a sewing kit with a special conductive silver thread...
NASA’s New Atlas of the Universe
NASA used the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to catalog the entire infrared sky, showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects. WISE launched Dec. 14, 2009, and mapped the entire sky in...