We’ve seen Japan’s magic flying ball before, but this is the demo where the fumbly bumbly spheroid finally won my heart. The device could be used for reconnaissance, search and rescue, or as the world’s greatest piñata.
You don’t need to be a physicist, a PhD student, a geek, or even a member of the Insane Clown Posse to appreciate the awesome capabilities of superconductors and magnets as demonstrated in this video by Tel-Aviv University. An unidentified member of the university’s Superconductivity Group School…
The video is of an effect known in fluid dynamics as the coalescence cascade, which can be observed (provided you have access to a video camera with a sufficiently high frame rate) when a drop of liquid is deposited very gently onto the surface of a layer of the same liquid.
Gizmodo friend and amazing filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet says that calling this time lapse video of Utah and Arizona “breathtaking” is an understatement.
Roz Savage is about to set a world record as the first woman to row solo across the three largest oceans of the world. You may think she’s an extreme athlete, but she’s actually a lot like you and me. Savage was a management consultant in London for eleven years before she dropped everything to…
Tumblr really needs to update their Android Honeycomb app for tablets!! It’s a horrible experience viewing and posting in that environment. Need tablet optimization!!
Trip down memory lane…
Antigua - Guatemala - 2008
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