A Chinese boy has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black with eyes that glow in the dark. Doctors have studied Nong Youhui’s amazing eyesight since his dad took him to hospital in Dahua, southern China, concerned over his bright blue eyes. Medical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can read perfectly without any light and sees as clearly as most people do during the day.
Astronauts living and working in space rely on the International Space Station as their port of call. The iconic ISS is a modern engineering triumph, zipping around the Earth every 90 minutes at a height of 200 miles above the surface. Its construction required careful coordination between nearly a dozen countries working through five space agencies.
Yet the history of space station design is littered with concepts – some elegant, some strange, and some remarkably cute – that were passed over for one reason or another. Take a look at some space station ideas that didn’t quite make it off the drawing board.
Visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries in the shape of a rollercoaster. The camera starts by showing a close-up of the score, then focuses on the notes of the first violin turning the staves into the winding rail tracks of the rollercoaster.
ZKO Rollercoaster // GREAT EMOTIONS from virtual republic on Vimeo.
Photoshop Disasters is a website showcasing terrible Photoshop from various kinds of digital and printed media. The website has a meticulous community of readers who endeavor to catch and find these disasters.
John Elfreth Watkins was a civil engineer working for American railroads of the 19th century. After suffering a disabling accident in 1873, he became a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in 1885 became a curator at the transport section of the Smithsonian. In 1900, he contributed an article to the Ladies’ Home Journal, entitled What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.
It’s downright impressive how many of these predictions have actually come to pass in the 112 years since the column was written. It almost makes you wonder if the days of C, X, and Q being part of the English alphabet are numbered.
The Red Ball Project by Chicago-born artist Kurt Perschke is a global art project that exists as a series of temporary installations in a city over a few weeks in which a 15-foot inflatable red sphere is embedded within a city’s urban environment and provides a point of interaction with people on the street. The work has taken place in cities such as Syndey, Barcelona, Chicago, Korea, Abu Dhabi and England among others.
In celebration of UAE National Day 2011, 44 projectors with a combined brightness of 840,000 lumens were used to cover a surface 600ft wide x 351ft high.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Projections from Obscura Digital on Vimeo.
The ‘Jukusui-kun’ (Deep Sleep) is a robotic pillow-like device in the shape of a polar bear that tries to help the more than 2 million patients who suffer from ‘Sleep Apnea Syndrome’ in Japan.
People who snore a lot can wear a pulse-oxygen meter attached to the hand which sends readings of the amount of oxygen in the blood to a terminal running a program with the persons vital statistics pre-programmed in.
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Na het inchecken op een vliegveld (in dit geval bij Delta Airlines) komt je bagage in een achtbaan op weg naar het vliegtuig terecht. Volg hieronder een koffer vanaf de de flappen waarachter een koffer verdwijnt bij het inchecken tot het weerzien op de bagageband in de aankomsthal.
As we approach the New Year, the countdown to the End of Times has already begun. But first, let’s take a short survey of various apocalyptic visions in art history and today’s contemporary art and illustration.
Whether grounded in biblical belief, Hollywood disaster film hysteria, or modern fears of a nuclear war, get ready for a year of enthusiastic resurgence of the ‘End of the World‘ motif because December 21, 2012 will be here very soon.
Verteld door een gorilla, een bever en een, nou ja, iets.
Pick your hedgehog! An interactive YouTube movie.