Introducing Project Bloks
Adults TechnologyProject Bloks is a research project with the aim of creating an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids.
Holding and Explosion at 20,000 fps
Adults TechnologyI always thought firing from the center was the best way to do it. Turns out I'm probably wrong.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Adults TechnologyWatch as Star Trek alums Levar Burton, Jeri Ryan, and Karl Urban reveal and play Star Trek: Bridge Crew for the first time and discover the immersive Star Trek experience in Virtual Reality (VR).
What Video Games Teach Us About the Aging Brain
Adults TechnologyWhat Video Games Teach Us About the Aging Brain. Are younger video game players better?
Ara: What's next
Adults TechnologyProject Ara is a new modular computing platform, allowing devices to be customized for style and function. Choose your high-res camera, add a louder speaker, swap in a better battery. Imagine the possibilities.
Air Into Drinking Water
Adults TechnologyThis Ingenious Water Bottle Is Designed To Convert The Air Into Drinking Water
Can You Hear Me in French?
Adults TechnologyGroundbreaking Gadget Fits Inside Your Ear To Translate Foreign Languages In Real-Time
Introducing Tap to Translate
Adults TechnologyTap to Translate: instantly translate text within any app on your Android phone. No more app switching. Just copy the text and your translation pops up right there.
How do we separate the inseparable?
Adults TechnologyYour cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.
Tilt Brush: Painting from a new perspective
Adults TechnologyTilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.
Electric Cars Could Wreak Havoc
Adults TechnologyFebruary 24 -- There are more than one billion cars on the road worldwide today, and only one tenth of one percent of them have a plug. OPEC contends that even in the year 2040, EVs will make up just one percent.
This Number is Illegal
Adults Technology85650789657397829 + 1402 more digits is an illegal number. To understand why this is, we need to learn a little bit of cryptology, a little bit of math, and a little bit of programming.
Woven bark fiber
Adults TechnologyI made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don't know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut stands up to rain) and this caused a large wattle tree to fall down taking a few smaller trees with it.
James Webb Space Telescope
Adults TechnologyKnown as Hubble's successor, it uses 18 mirror segments to collect light from galaxies billions of light years away.
The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human?
Adults TechnologyWhat is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence.
NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
Adults TechnologyAn ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.
This Video Has Consumed 30.1 Household-Days of Electricity!
Adults TechnologyThe title of this video is changing every 10 seconds to reflect an estimate of the actual energy used just by people (like you!) watching it. Thanks to Jasper Palfree for doing the computer magic that makes that possible!
The science of skin color
Adults TechnologyWhen ultraviolet sunlight hits our skin, it affects each of us differently. Depending on skin color, it'll take only minutes of exposure to turn one person beetroot-pink, while another requires hours to experience the slightest change.