Windows Project Glass: One day too...
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyMicrosoft released their augmented reality glasses prototype right away...
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
AdultsFilmTechnologyScience...Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with atoms. Named "A Boy and His Atom," the movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create this ~250 frames stop-motion, first of its kind classic.
Flyboard
AdultsSportsTechnologyAdventure...Welcome to Rocky Mountain Flyboard, home of the hottest new extreme watersport to hit the Wasatch Front. Whether you want to rocket 45 feet out of the water, swim like a dolphin, or soak the top deck of your group's houseboat at Lake Powell, riding a Flyboard is an experience like none other! Website
How Liquipel Will Make Your Phone Waterproof
AdultsPhysicsTechnologyGadgets...We check in with the team at Liquipel, a company that impressed us last year with its water-resistent nano-coating for smartphones. Dunking an iPhone into a tub of water and watching it still work perfectly is still amazing and something our brains struggle to comprehend.
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyBeing able to calculate the failure front velocity of a Prince Rupert's drop is a pretty big deal. For years this was a scientific mystery. High speed camera technology is only recently fast enough to provide data like this. Thanks to Vision Research for letting me use the V1610 to try to unravel this mystery for the public in general.
3D sound "Holophonics"
AdultsInternet CultureTechnologyMusic...3D sound must be experienced with headphones and you must close your eyes Holophonics, by inventor Hugo Zuccarelli is the aural equivalent of visual holography, a technology with the capacity to record sound exactly as it is. Spatial dimension, ambience, emotion, and the living spirit of the source are presented in such a way that our brains have little choice but to tell us that the content of the recording is, in fact, real life. No processing, no special effects, just a pure signal, blended with a healthy dose of genius.
The Official Ultra-Ever Dry Product Video
AdultsMarketingTechnologyGadgets...Ultra-Ever Dry is a superhydrophobic (water) and oleophobic (hydrocarbons) coating that will completely repel almost any liquid. Ultra-Ever Dry uses proprietary nanotechnology to coat an object and create a barrier of air on its surface.
Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum
AdultsArtBusinessDesign...This amazing sculpture is made out of 714 metal balls which move under the command of a combination of codes, electronics and mechanics. This kinetic sculpture needs a surface of six square meters in order to function properly. The 714 aluminum balls are individually controlled by a computer stepper-motor, and they are hung with very thin steel wires which have a diameter of under 0.2 millimeters.
Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter pre-release video
AdultsGadgetsStartupsTechnology...So we have all seen a quadrocopter before, but just look at the size and agility of this one. Needless to say that sound is quite scary when it just comes out of nowhere! Turn your volume up for a jumpy ride.
Google Maps Panoramic Imagery
AdultsBusinessTechnologyTravel...Google Maps is releasing panoramic imagery of one of the world's most spectacular national monuments: the Grand Canyon. These Street View images cover more than 75 miles of trails and surrounding roads, making our map of this area even more comprehensive, accurate and easy to use than ever before.
I think we underestimate the impact of technology.
AdultsHealthTechnologySocietyWe know that it will get us our email faster or help us navigate smarter with GPS/Maps or apply special filters to our photos and send them and the world instantly.
Animatronic Robot
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceTechnologyHanson Robotics collaborated with researchers at the University of California at San Diego to create this boy robot they've named Diego-San. The face was built by Hanson Robotics, and the body was built by Japan's Kokoro Co. Diego-San can see with HD cameras in his eyes, and uses artificial intelligence software "modeled on human babies" so that he learns.
Futuristic highways in the Netherlands glow in the dark
AdultsGlobal WarmingTechnologyTransportationA futuristic highway that can save energy and improve road safety is set to be installed in the Netherlands by mid-2013.
New Google+ Feature: Communities
AdultsMarketingSocial MediaTechnology...With Google+ Communities, you can talk about the stuff you're into with people who love it too. Plan events, start hangouts, and share with your communities from across the web.
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
AdultsArtCreativityHumor...Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.
Quantum Levitation
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyTel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.