I love Poly. This iPad app allows you to draw points on any photograph, turning it into a colourful mosaic of polygons. The effect is really pretty. Sadly, it's optimised for iPad 2 and runs slow on the first iPad.
I prefer to call it The Force — a particle that "surrounds us and penetrates us" binding the galaxy together — but Czech physicist Luboš Motl makes a good case as to why the Higgs boson should be called the God Particle.
An anonymous reader sent me this crazy video taken two weeks ago: a truck out of control almost smashes a car on a snowy road in Russia. Fortunately, these guys got extremely lucky and Death got distracted at the very last second.
There has been an explosion at one of the factories of Pegatron Corp—a manufacturer of back panel parts for Apple's iPad 2. The explosion has injured 57 workers, with 23 hospitalised with burns.
Hyperrealist painting is nothing new. Derived from photorealism in the '70s, this early aughts art movement aims to turn actual photographs into paintings. These are extraordinary examples by a young Italian painter, Roberto Bernardi. His command of oil painting just defies belief, doesn't it?
Oh these are clever. CLEVER I say, and pretty: a cocktail glass surrounded by a normal glass. The inside out Martini for the upside down Bond in you.
NASA's new VIIRS—or Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite—satellite travels in a sun-synchronous orbit. So as it photographs the planet, each photo is taken at the same time ensuring that all the images have similar lighting.
Being a cyclist in a busy city is dangerous for many reasons, but someone in Russia has at least solved the problem of limited visibility with this transforming bike that can give the rider a high or low stance.
Powered by an AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, Chad Smith's five screen racing simulator looks like it provides almost the same thrills as the military's simulators, without requiring the military's budget.
It's not going to guarantee you an A+ like showing up with a working portal gun would. But you can still wow your teachers by building your own version of Portal 2's potato-powered AI, even though the kit's a fraud.
It doesn't take the detective prowess of Sam Spade to see how awesome this 88-metre is. It can take you from New York to Barcelona in ten days flat in the lap of luxury.
This image reminds me a bit of a similar scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where they find a ship in the middle of the desert. Except this ship is sailing the sand of Kerminihy beach, in Erdeven.
Snakes are cool. Two-headed snakes are awesome. X-rays of two-headed albino snakes are amazing.
Until today I've never even considered putting a case on my iPhone. Naked and free is the way I prefer to use it. But that all changed when I gazed upon this case featuring Vans' iconic waffle sole tread.
Instead of relying on post-processing tools like Photoshop, photographer Li Wei uses tricks you're more likely to find in a magician's toolkit, including mirrors, wires, and talented acrobatic performers. All combined with the impeccable timing of his camera's shutter.
Once mankind realised that electricity could save them from severe hot wax burns, they stopped using candles in chandeliers. So what possessed artist Takeshi Miyakawa to make an entire chandelier from wax that completely melts away when lit?
