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…
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 earliest recorded tattoo was found on a Peruvian mummy in 6,000 BC. And considering humans lose roughly 40,000 skin cells per hour, how do these markings last? Claudia Aguirre details the different methods, machines and macrophages that go into making tattoos stand the test of time. Lesson by Claudia Aguirre, animation by TOGETHER.…
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive…
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…
Illusion and science master Brusspup modified Crealev’s CLM 2 magnetic levitation module, hiding the magnetic disc in various objects like a chess board, pillow and Millennium Falcon. The unit can float objects weighing nearly 20 pounds! The song is The Last Sun produced by Brusspup.
We all know our eyes can play tricks on us. After watching this you may not trust your ears either! Watch (and listen) as the crew at AsapSCIENCE explain four classic audio illusions in rapid-fire succession.
It was only a matter of time before an engineer devised a way for a dog to play fetch with itself. And that time is now. Behold! A dog-powered catapult, filmed in all of its 240p glory 🙂
Solar roadways is one of those ideas that sounds too good to be true. Too ambitious, too costly, and if it makes so much sense why isn’t it being done already? All valid questions but the video is compelling and certainly entertaining. If you would like more information, check out the Indigogo project page…
Magnetic Thinking Putty is like normal silly putty, only it’s embedded with millions of tiny micron-sized magnets. This gives the material some strange and fascinating properties. Watch what happens when the team at Vat19 answer burning questions from customers using 100 pounds of the magnetic substance.
Page 146 of 147
Sign up to get our BEST stories of the week straight to your inbox.
