This amazing new time-lapse video shows beautiful star trails and city lights streaking over the Earthâs surface as seen from space. Photographer Christoph Malin from Austria created the stunning film by stacking image sequences provided by NASA from the crew at International Space Station. These “stacks” create the Star Trails, but furthermore make interesting patterns visible. For example lightning… Continue reading Stunning Star Trails and City Lights from Space
Category: Science
Gloves Turn Sign Language Into Speech
What a brilliant idea! A group of Ukrainian students have invented a sensory gloves that work with an app to turn sign language into automated speech. The Enable Talk project won first place ($25,000 grand prize) at Microsoftâs Imagine Cup 2012 this week in Sydney, Australia. Students on the winning Team QuadSquad â Anton Stepanov, Anton Posternikov, and Maxim Osika â beat… Continue reading Gloves Turn Sign Language Into Speech
The World’s First Large-Scale Spherical OLED Screen
Its like watching earth right in front of you. The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo displayed Mitsubishi Electricâs âGeo-Cosmosâ, the worldâs first large-scale spherical OLED. The globe was installed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the museum. It was created from Miraikan’s Chief Executive Director Mamoru Mohri’s desire of “wanting… Continue reading The World’s First Large-Scale Spherical OLED Screen
Colourful Ants
Dr. Mohamed Babu is an Indian scientist who came up with an interesting idea when his wife showed him some ants that had turned white after drinking spilt milk. He gave the ants a colored sugar drops and watched as their transparent stomachs matched the food they were eating. Via: Pondly
Siri Controlled By Brain Waves
Josh Evans and Ollie Hayward claimed on their blog to have taken Siri to the next level, by making the iPhone 4S feature that obeys voice commands, and turning it into an app that obeys brainwave patterns. Although there has been some debate in the scientific community and some websites like gregslab and Mashable, about whether Project Black Mirror real… Continue reading Siri Controlled By Brain Waves
Microsoft’s Vision Of The Future
 The video, titled Productivity Future Vision, Its microsoft‘s vision of what might plausibly look like five to ten years in the future. Microsoft sees touchscreens and holographic displays dominating our daily experiences. Flat surfaces of any kind are transformed into useful, interactive displays as well. Watch how future technology will help people make better use… Continue reading Microsoft’s Vision Of The Future
Flying Over Planet Earth
Switch to 1080p HD with 20″ screen monitor or more to watch this video, and you’ll actually feel like flying over earth on board a spaceship. This movie (time-lapse) was taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. It begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and… Continue reading Flying Over Planet Earth
Eddy Currents Demonstration
As you can see in the video below the demonstrator got a length of copper pipe and dropped a small neodymium magnet into it. It shows that the magnet wasn’t attracted to the pipe, but the descent was still slowed dramatically on the way down creating eddy currents. Interesting, don’t you think!? Watch the video below.