This is a video of chemical engineer James Orgill of The Action Lab creating what is allegedly the world’s darkest clothing, using IR flock sheet (a sort of velvety fabric specifically designed to absorb infrared light, available here for around $40/roll). I’m sure it’s fairly obvious, but these are not
This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill painting the entire interior of a room he made out of insulation board with the world’s blackest commercially available paint, Musou black, which absorbs 99.4% of light. He then turns on an overhead light bulb to see what it looks
Pandora: it’s right here on earth. “You’re talking about the jewelry store that sells the charm bracelets.” Exactly, my girlfriend loves those baubles. This is a video captured by photographer and videographer Raymond K. of the bioluminescent algae (aka sea sparkle) in the Wadden Sea off the coast of Terschelling
Batman: he was born in a time before cell phones and only answers to a giant bat-shaped light signal in the sky. He’s oldschool. And this is a video of Ron Swanson voiced Youtuber NightHawkInLight building a real-life Bat-Signal out of a 100,000 lumen IMALENT MS18 flashlight and a large
This is a short video of a golden retriever repeatedly trying to attack a beam of light that appears on a sofa cushion. It’s not trying to bite it though, it’s trying to poke it with its nose like it’s playing Whac-A-Mole or something. And, just like my day job
This is the Super Mario Piranha Plant desk lamp available from Target for $35 (also available other places, but $35 was the cheapest price I saw). The plant’s stalk is fully posable so you can shine its focused white LED light right where you need it. Are you going to
This is a video of Youtuber Randomonium discussing, building, and demonstrating his homemade invisibility/distortion shield constructed using sheets of lenticular lens. For those of you unfamiliar with how lenticular lenses work, he provides an explanation and diagram at around 2:30. Randomium estimates the cost of building your own shield to
- April 9, 2021
- April 9, 2021