Tagged with " Science"
20 Jan
2012
MIT’s Exploratory Cute Robot Boxie

MIT’s Exploratory Cute Robot Boxie

Meet Boxie! He’s a robot cinematographer that is a project of the responsive environments group at the MIT media lab. Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the [...]

29 Dec
2011
Fun With Neodymium Magnets – 2 Simple DIY Projects | Homopolar Motor & Eddy Currents

Fun With Neodymium Magnets – 2 Simple DIY Projects | Homopolar Motor & Eddy Currents

Magnets are just super cool in general, but neodymium magnets are extra cool. There’s so many fun uses for them. You Also Might Enjoy:Slate Tool Allows You To Plot Actors/Actress Career Based On Rotton Tomato DataPSA: Please Be Careful This [...]

7 Dec
2011
The Mythbusters Bust A Myth, and Some Neighborhood In N. California

The Mythbusters Bust A Myth, and Some Neighborhood In N. California

The MythBusters crew was testing a myth about cannon balls when they accidentally missed the target at a test range and sent a cannon ball soaring into a neighborhood in Dublin, CA. The ball hit the front door of a [...]

22 Oct
2011
The Science Behind How a Quartz Watch Works Simplified – The Engineer Guy

The Science Behind How a Quartz Watch Works Simplified – The Engineer Guy

Bill Hammack, AKA “The Engineer Guy” creates some pretty amazing videos that explain things two steps further than most of the fluff on the internet. The thing that sets him aside is that he chooses topics that are a bit [...]

20 Sep
2011
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Cone of Evaporation Water Purifier

Call me odd (as some already do), but I’ve always thought the concept of evaporated water collectors was really interesting. I’m curious though just how dirty the water you start with can be. The user can pour up to 1.7 [...]

17 Jul
2011
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Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene (by CNNNN)

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17 Jul
2011
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Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4

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