At 17x17x17 this is the world’s largest rubik’s cube. It took Kenneth Brandon 7.5 hours to solve this beast but you can watch a condensed 6-minute time-lapse version here. For those curious, you can check out the real-time version here (the video is just shy of 8 hours long). So just how many different…
Reddit user sesipikai proposed to his girlfriend earlier this year (she said yes!) while the couple were visiting Rome, Italy. After visiting the Colosseum the couple went to the Roman Forum where he popped the big question (after enjoying some delicious ice cream). Interested to chart his heart rate (bpm) during the marriage proposal…
Builder and designer Steve Wintercroft has created an awesome series of geometric 3D paper masks that you can build yourself. Steve says it all began a few years ago when he was invited to a Halloween party and was struggling for costume ideas: “I sat down with a pile of old cardboard, some parcel…
PhotoMath is the world’s first ‘camera calculator’. Point your smartphone’s camera towards a mathematical expression and PhotoMath instantly displays a correct result, also showing the step by step process it used to arrive at the answer. The free app currently supports arithmetic expressions; fractions and decimals; powers and roots; and simple linear equations with…
In an ongoing series of anamorphic sculptures, artist Jonty Hurwitz (featured previously) creates distorted artworks can be seen ‘clearly’ when placed in front of a cylindrical mirror. Maternal Hands is the latest anamorphic sculpture by Hurwitz completed this past June. You can find images of the amazing sculpture below. To see more be sure…
This could be a game changer. Engineers at Microsoft recently unveiled a method for converting first-person videos into hyperlapse videos (time-lapse videos with a smoothly moving camera). As the team explains on their research page: At high speed-up rates, simple frame sub-sampling coupled with existing video stabilization methods does not work, because the erratic…
Eric Standley (featured previously) is an artist and educator (associate professor of studio art at Virginia Tech) whose ongoing series of 3D laser cut paper art is found at the intersection of art, tech, history and mathematics. Standley’s stacked paper sculptures can take up to six months to plan. Many of his artworks involve…
Using a high-speed camera, scientists at MIT have been able to passively recover audio by analyzing minute vibrations, effectively turning everyday objects into ‘Visual Microphones’. You can read more about this fascinating work by Abe Davis, Michael Rubinstein, Neal Wadhwa, Gautham J. Mysore, Fredo Durand and William T. Freeman at the MIT project page.…
The circular motion in this video is not what it seems… Just another example of hidden patterns in plain sight! A great illusion from YouTube mind-melter brusspup. Credit for original creation of this illusion goes to: Arthur Shapiro and Alex Rose-Henig of American University, USA
It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world – and it would be identical on the other side. But this idea underpins everything…
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