A brief history of aviation in 3D animation. While there are many contributions to aviation that could not be included, this video shows many of the substantial advancements that propelled aviation to what it has become today.YouTube link(thanks Co...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Coulrophobia - Are You Afraid of Clowns?
image creditDid you find Heath Ledger as The Joker scary? Then perhaps you suffer from coulrophobia, the abnormal fear of clowns. Why do so many people find clowns scary? Only a few years ago the Bestival Festival on the Isle of Wight in the UK had to...
Extraordinary Inventions: Victorian-Era Prank Machines
image creditAt the beginning of the twentieth century, 40 percent of American men belonged to a fraternal lodge, and they were hazing their newbies with squirting goats, spanking machines, electric chairs and carpets, and the like. Nearly all their prank...
Borgund Stave Church
image creditThe Borgund Stave Church is a church located in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. The church was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 CE with later additions and restorations....
Flying People In New York City
Three human shaped RC planes were flown around New York City to create the illusion of people flying. It's a marketing stunt to promote the February 3 release of the movie Chronicle.YouTube link(thanks Miss Ra...
6 Injuries For The Modern Era
image creditEver heard of a text neck, a Blackberry thumb, a Wii wrist, or a iPad shoulder? Our shiny new gadgets are proving once again that human beings are really easily breakab...
Formula 1: A Look Back Through The Premier Class Of Racing
image creditThe popularity of Formula One racing has grown to a point where it's now attracting a global television audience in excess of 520 million. The race meetings are attended by thousands of people who are all keen and willing to show their support...
Igloo Village
At the Igloo Village in Zermatt, Switzerland, guests can sleep at an altitude of 2,727 meters (8.946 ft) at the Gornergrat, right next to Switzerland's most famous mountain, the mighty Matterhorn. The Igloo village typically opens up in December with...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Rémi Gaillard - Radar
Rémi Gaillard is a French humorist who runs pranks on the public. This time he dressed up like a radar station to track vehicles speeds. And not just cars but also planes, trains, and even a tractor. All goes well, until the cops show up.YouTube link(thanks Co...
T-Rex Trying...
Tyrannosaurus rex was a very large ferocious carnivorous dinosaur of the Upper Cretaceous period. The animal had a very large head, its weight was more than six tons and it could have been more than 40 ft long. Unfortunately, it had very small forelimbs....
YouTube - One Hour Per Second
A visualization from YouTube, demonstrating the sheer volume of video that's uploaded to the site every second/minute/hour/etc. Click on the little video guy to get started.(thanks Co...
What's Your Animal Name?
image creditWe all have an inner animal. Find out what your animal name is.Mine is Fantasia, the Beautiful Dodo Bi...
Lego Man In Space
Two teens from Toronto, Canada, successfully launched a Lego figure into near space. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras 78,000 feet above the earth on a homemade weather balloon.YouTube...
The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever
image credit Even today, with advanced foods, and radios, and insulated clothing, a journey on foot across Antarctica is one of the harshest tests a human being can be asked to endure. A hundred years ago, it was worse. Australian explorer Douglas Mawson's...
16 Weird Facts From Around The Globe
image creditDo you know what the only royal palace used by a monarch in the U.S. is? Do you know there are European territories on the African continent? Or that the Canary Islands were named after dogs?16 Weird Facts From Around The Globe.(thanks B...
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Dutch Side Saddle Hop
Getting your bike in motion while someone is sitting on the rear rack is difficult because of the extra weight. You have to start moving your bike forward and then your passenger has to hop on the rear rack. The Dutch Side Saddle Hop - a three-step move to elegantly hop on the rear rack of a bike -...
16 Of The Smartest Children In History
image creditAt the age most of us were playing with food and discovering our toes, child prodigies around the globe are learning complex languages and studying fields we've never heard of. Many of these children went on to do great things. Others were...
Great Ball Boy Catch At Australian Open
One of the ball boys makes an amazing catch during the Federer - Nadal semifinal match at the Australian Open. Speaking after the match, 14-year old Dylan Colaci said he reacted instinctively when Federer casually disposed of a ball after a fault on his first serve. He said: I didn't have much time...
6 Extremely Rare National Animals
image creditYou'd think the distinction of a 'National Animal' would bring with it some sort of benefit - protection from extinction, for instance. Not so. Take the Bald Eagle, symbol of the United States, which has been on and off the endangered species...
Shipwreck!
image creditWe normally associate shipwrecks with the bottom of the sea but with the recent tragedy of the Costa Concordia our perceptions have changed. Many ships end up on or near beaches. Here are just a few of the ships around the world which did...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
How To Remove Ads From Videos
Are you annoyed by the ads on YouTube videos? Here's how to remove them!YouTube l...
Jaipur's Elephant Festival
image creditThe gentle magnificence of elephants has long held a special place in Indian society. It's hardly surprising that elephants became symbols of royalty in Indian culture and that the animal is associated with a number of different festivals....
Anti-Aging Mouthpiece
Searching for that youthful look? Forget expensive surgery or dangerous therapies! Japanese housewife Chikako Hirama has the answer and it is as simple as it is, well, unusual. Just pop the colorful Pupeko gently into your mouth, clench your jaw and...
10 Secrets Of The Vatican Exposed
image creditVatican City may have fewer than 1,000 citizens and span only 110 acres, but it also has a multimillion-dollar budget and an unbelievably complex history. Understanding how it all works requires parsing through centuries of religious texts....
Rusty Cans
Rusty Cans is a web site dedicated to providing information about beer can collecting.(via Everlasting Blo...
Friday, January 27, 2012
Landing In The Hudson River - 3D Reconstruction
On January 15, 2009, an Airbus A320-214 was successfully ditched in the Hudson River adjacent to midtown Manhattan six minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport after being disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out....
What Do People Do All Day?
Timeu.se is a web tool for investigating how millions of people report spending their time. This is done by collecting and aggregating millions of messages from Twitter. Some people say that Twitter conversations are 'pointless' or 'babble.' It's great...
Ex E.T.
On a planet far, far away, where life is well regulated and orderly, a child just doesn't want to fit in. Ex-E.T. is a 3D animation produced by 4 students from the school ESMA Montpellier. Directors: Benoit Bargeton, Remy Froment, Nicolas Gracia and Yannick Lasfer.Vimeo l...
Wittenoom, Western Australia
image creditWittenoom is a ghost town located in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It's the site of Australia's greatest industrial disaster. The area around Wittenoom was mainly pastoral until the 1930s when mining began...
One Minute Fly
The One Minute Fly has got a very limited lifespan. One minute in which it wants to experience everything that makes life worth living.YouTube l...
Reformed Gambling Swindle Becomes A Punch Board of Love
Handheld punch-board parlor games, like Coo Coo and its companion The Fortune-Teller in Rhymes, were the icebreakers du jour at cocktail parties of the 1920s and '30s. They were sold by the checkout at five-and-dimes.First designed for gambling, punch boards quickly became the go-to scam for gangsters...
11 Incredible Edible Daleks
image creditThe Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They are evil alien mutants who travel inside cyborg shells and try to exterminate other beings. They are also funny-looking,...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Celebrity Sleepovers
Comedian and filmmaker Mark Malkoff didn't want to spend thousands of dollars on hotels during his recent visit to Los Angeles. His solution was to ask famous celebrities if he could sleepover at their homes. He sent them Facebook messages, emails, and...
Automatons
Bliss Kolb, born and raised in Seattle, has been creating cabinetry, furniture, set pieces and props for theatre and film, delicate containers, and other wonderful things for over 30 years. He also makes automatons, self-operating machines.(thanks J...
Chinese Boy Can See In The Dark
A Chinese boy has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black with eyes that glow in the dark. Doctors have studied Nong Youhui's amazing eyesight since his dad took him to hospital in Dahua, southern China, concerned over his bright blue eyes. Medical tests conducted in complete darkness...
A Scientific Look At The Dangers Of High Heels
image creditHow shoes affect human gait is a controversial topic these days. The popularity of barefoot running, for instance, has grown in large part because of the belief, still unproven, that wearing modern, well-cushioned running shoes decreases...
The World's Largest Gumball Machine
The same monolithic vending machine found in arcades, amusement parks, and novelty shops, this is the 7' tall gumball machine that holds over 14,000 gumballs. Requiring no coins for operation, the mechanism and dispenser are 49" high, allowing chewers...
The Mysterious Origins And Traditions Of The Chinese Lion Dance
image creditAlthough it is thought to date back to the Ch'in and Han Dynasties, the true beginnings of the Chinese Lion Dance are a mystery. For a start, how did an animal not native to China become such a large part of Chinese tradition? One popular...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Moby Dick Typed On Toilet Paper
If you are one of those people who like to read while on the toilet, then this is for you. For sale on eBay: Moby Dick typed on toilet paper. There are 4 full rolls, kept in a box in a cool, dry place for the last 10 years. Starting bid is $999.95.(via...
The Anatomy Of A Cupcake
A cupcake is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper or aluminum cup. The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of 'a cake to be baked in small cups' was written...
8 Year Old Guitarist Zoe Thomson
Zoe Thompson from Thatcham, in Berkshire, UK, working on a Stratosphere.YouTube l...
Films To...
Films To... is a new site by Philipp Lenssen. The site shows you hundreds of random videos to laugh, think, cry or cl...
Tropicana Wakes Up London With Artificial Sun
This artwork was commissioned by Tropicana (PepsiCo) to support their current advertising campaign. Art collective Greyworld created the spectacular sun which was raised over Trafalgar Square as part of Tropicana's 'Brighter Mornings' campaign.The Trafalgar...
Strange Forgotten Space Station Concepts That Never Flew
image creditAstronauts living and working in space rely on the International Space Station as their port of call. The iconic ISS is a modern engineering triumph, zipping around the Earth every 90 minutes at a height of 200 miles above the surface. Its...
When Larry Met Sergey
When Larry Met Sergey: From Grad School to $150 Billion Company. An interactive guide to everything Google.(thanks Pet...
30 Beautiful Sunsets From Around The World
image creditThe world is an amazing place, and it looks its best when the sun goes down. Here are some of the best pictures of great sunsets from all over the glo...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Zurich Chamber Orchestra Rollercoaster
Visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries in the shape of a rollercoaster. The camera starts by showing a close-up of the score, then focuses on the notes of the first violin turning the staves into the winding rail tracks of the rollercoaster.Vimeo link(thanks...
9 Offbeat Countries
image creditDid you know there's a country with more than 3 million lakes? What is the least densely populated country? Here's a list of countries that are not like other countries. Some countries are specific for its natural beauties, some by the demographic...
The Most Incredible Space Imagery
image creditBeautiful pictures of stars and galaxies. They are all the more spectacular if you consider how far their light had to travel to reach us: millions, sometimes billions of yea...
How An Olympic Runner Is Making An F1 Team Faster
image creditThe Williams Formula One team has joined forces with Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson in a bid to improve their performance on and off track. Michael Johnson Performance Inc, a company founded by the athlete, will focus on providing...
Real-Time Web Monitor
Akamai monitors global Internet conditions around the clock. With this real-time web monitor you can identify the global regions with the greatest attack traffic, cities with the slowest Web connections, and geographic areas with the most Web traff...
Big Bang Theory Network Diagram
The popular CBS TV-show 'The Big Bang Theory' presents a complex network of characters.This network diagram illustrates the various types of relationships.(thanks Be...
Hidden Cold War Missile Launch Base Underneath House
image creditScouting New York has gone down into a 9-story Cold War missile launch facility hidden in the wilderness of the Adirondacks.(thanks Co...
Monday, January 23, 2012
Bat Infestation Under Tile Roof In Miami, USA
Hundreds of bats come flying out from underneath the tiles.YouTube link(via Nothing To Do With Arbroa...
11 Things You Might Not Know About Winnie the Pooh
image creditWinnie the Pooh is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh from 1926.The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney...
The Internet 2011 In Numbers
image creditSo what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed...
Tiger On Hotel Roof Rescued By Firefighters
Firefighters sometimes receive calls out to get cats out of trees. But what happens when they get calls about a tiger on a roof? The Houston Fire Department received several calls last week about a tiger on the roof of an abandoned hotel. Fire crews removed the tiger, saying it posed a hazard because...
Rats Free Trapped Friends
With a few liberating swipes of their paws, a group of research rats freed trapped labmates and raised anew the possibility that empathy isn't unique to humans and a few extra-smart animals, but is widespread in the animal world.In a study published...
IKEA - In The Kitchen
Five kitchens, five stories - and you! Jump into the characters, travel through the kitchens, get inspired by a unique experience.(thanks Co...
The Final Maneuvers Of The Costa Concordia
Regarding the disaster with the Costa Concordia we will not exactly know what happened until the Voyage Data Recorder, aka Black Box, is analyzed. But John Konrad, who is a professional seaman and author at gCaptain, a maritime and offshore industry...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Yosemite
Beautiful daytime/nighttimetime-lapse of Yosemite National Park shot over an extended period of time by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty.Vimeo l...
Bald Eagle
The Bald Eagle is off the endangered list. He doesn't seem to be too happy though.(via Crig...
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