txchnologist: This is what happens when someone brings a football to NASA. The folks at the agency’s Ames Research Center decided to take a closer look at the new ball that was designed for this year’s World Cup. The result is a lesson in fluid dynamics. Get ready for...

designersofthings: Your Flowerbed Gets Smarter with the Edyn Smart Garden System The Internet of Things is trickling into all facets of our life including the garden. Edyn is a smart garden system which is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The system monitors and...

Successful replication experiments documented in 2011 This video is the only remaining evidence of replication experiments conducted on humans in an unknown location by a shadowy branch of the US Government. Edward Snowden hinted at it’s existence in an early...

zerostatereflex: Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold...

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: GE has a great new video with a straightforward explanation of the turbojet and the turbofan engines. The simplest description of the engines—suck, squeeze, bang, blow—sounds like a euphemism but it’s fairly accurate. The engines draw in air,...