This is a fun visualization of the world’s tallest buildings from 1901 – 2021. I was actually unaware of the two upcoming world’s tallest buildings: the Jeddah Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Dubai Creek Tower in Dubai, but after a little research I learned the Jeddah Tower project
This is a video demonstration of an angle grinder attempting to cut through Proteus, a new material developed by researchers in Germany and the U.K. that prevents itself from being cut by using the vibrations of embedded ceramic microspheres to cause damage to the cutting tool (full paper HERE). Some
This is a vintage video from all the way back in 2002 of Christi and Ali getting 2nd generation iPods and not being sure what to make of them. You think their parents gave all their kids names that end with i? “Yes.” Haha — Levi, everybody! Honestly, I didn’t
This is a video from researchers at the University Of Washington who have developed a tiny, pannable camera system capable of streaming live video that’s so small it can fit on the back of a beetle (or any other small insect). The entire system weighs only 248 milligrams in total.
Note: The whole photo can be seen HERE. This is the closest photo captured of the sun to date, taken by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter satellite from a distance of 77-million kilometers. It features thousands of small solar flares scientists have nicknamed campfires. Some more info while I
This is a video of a man showing off his homemade Jack Daniels bottle water fountain. I like how the water is brown, that’s a nice touch. Or is it actually whiskey? *puts cup in fountain, sips, smacks lips* Tastes like– “DISAPPOINTED.” Haha, thanks, Kevin Sorbo. “In the video, I
This is the Sony Reon Pocket, a ~$170 smartphone operated personal air conditioner worn in a pocket in the back of a special $20 undershirt so it can make contact with your skin and cool your surrounding body up to 23-degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, and warm it up to
Because the world is going to hell in the bicycle basket of Wile E. Coyote’s rocket-powered jet-bike, the Nippon Professional Baseball team Softbank Hawks have added 20 Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robots and 20 Softbank Robotics Pepper humanoid robots to the stands to act as cheerleaders in the fan-less Paypal