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iPhone App Displays Transparent Screen

From InkstoneSoftware Forget about a transparent screen. This eBook app uses the iPhone’s camera to video the scene in front of you and display it on the iPhone screen — in effect, giving a transparent feel...

A Cloud of 100,000 Starlings

A Cloud of 100,000 Starlings

100,000 starlings fill the skies in Poole from Mark Rigler on Vimeo. 1 Minute: a Vimeo Project A fantastic natural phenomenon is filling the skies over Sterte every night as around 100,000 starlings form a black cloud...

What’s In A Surname?

What’s In A Surname?

America is a nation of Smiths, Johnsons, and Sullivans—but also of Garcias and Nguyens. Click on the map above to be taken to National Geographic where you will be able to zoom in on the map to see what surnames...

Hair Clip Eyes

The perfect gift for a mom and/or a woman teacher: a hair clip with eyes printed onto it. When worn, it gives the impression that the wearer literally has “eyes in the back of her head.” View more images and...

NASA Extreme Planet Makeover Game

OK, so by now you’ve figured out that taking pictures of the planets in our Solar System, never mind of those further off into deep space, is not as easy as the NASA pictures make it look like. NASA knows that...

Watch A Flashbulb Fire In Slow Motion

Watch A Flashbulb Fire In Slow Motion

slow burn from frazerchurchill on Vimeo. How can you even think of catching the light from a flash bulb? Here’s a try while filming it going off at a super speed of 1052 fps, thus resulting in a super slow motion...