Here's the Surface tablet I really want!
AdultsGadgetsTechnologySome Australian dude upgraded his Surface table (which ran a special version of Windows 7) to regular Windows 8 -- and here's what it looks like. What's the matter with you, Microsoft? Are you going to wait until Apple has a giant touch desktop on the market for four years before you try to enter the market?
Streetfighting with Tesla Coils
AdultsCreativityPhysicsEntertainment...Watch as these talented performers use electricity to entertain the crowds at Belfast Festival
The Killer Whale Submarine
AdultsSportsTechnologyEngineering...This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2"-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale's pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever's throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored thrust of the craft's 255-hp supercharged Rotax axial flow engine, enabling realistic behaviors such as porpoising or skyhopping.
The World We Dream- Hugh Herr Zeitgeist Americas 2012
AdultsBiotechnologyScienceTechnology...Do you want to have your mind blown? Watch this. (This will cost you 13.5 minutes) Hugh Herr, Director of Biomechatronics at MIT University delivers an amazing talk that will touch your soul. I was in the audience. I was almost in the back row. For the opening few minutes of the talk, I couldn't see his feet. So imagine what happened when I finally stood up and saw his legs.
Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k'
AdultsSpaceSportsTechnology...After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane.
First underwater panoramas in Google Maps
AdultsAnimalsNatureTechnology...We've added the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world. With these vibrant and stunning photos you don't have to be a scuba diver-or even know how to swim-to explore and experience six of the ocean's most incredible living coral reefs. Now, anyone can become the next virtual Jacques Cousteau and dive with sea turtles, fish and manta rays in Australia and Hawaii. Check it out
Breathtaking! - Mars Curiosity Descent
AdultsSpaceTechnologyScienceUltra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, interpolated from the original 4 frames per second to 30 frames per second. This video plays real-time at the speed that Curiosity descended to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012. I think it's wonderful that everyone on Earth has a chance to see this amazing footage from Mars :)
Camera shutter speed synchronized with helicopter blade frequency
AdultsPhotographyTechnologyTransportation...This is what happens when you sync your camera shutter to the speed of helicopter blades.
How to Wrap Your Heaphones Without Losing Your Mind
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyHow-toNow you can watch videos without fighting your crazy pile of headphones first.
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten
AdultsHealthTechnologyDesign...Higher Quality Video "If people say it's impossible we have to prove them wrong." Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.
Did He Just Play A Trance Song On A Guitar?
AdultsCreativityMusicTechnologywho says you need a computer to make trance?
Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme
AdultsMusicTechnologyThese flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.