Optimizing Google Classroom For The Way You Work
Teachers TechnologyAs education evolves, so do the needs of students and teachers. Google Classroom has updated Classroom to give teachers more control over how they organize everything.
What's a smartphone made of?
Adults TechnologyAs of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of copper.
What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
Adults TechnologyWhat do raindrops look like? Exactly how we drew them as kids, right? Wrong! Teardrop-shaped rain is physically impossible. This week I went inside a vertical wind tunnel to bring you the true shape of rain.
This Toy Can Open Any Garage
Adults TechnologyOr almost any garage - it's particularly good with fixed code gates and garages. Samy proposes other weaknesses with rolling codes.
How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY
Adults TechnologyDid you know that we could start building a Lunar Base today?
How iPhone Changes the Smartphone Market Every Year
Adults TechnologyThe launch of Apple's iPhone X brought face recognition, animoji, and the notch into the mainstream. Many of these features appeared before Apple incorporated them into their phone, but once Apple does it everyone seems to follow along.
Bird Taking Off at 20,000 fps
Adults TechnologyIts incredible how many things you can learn from having a camera like this.
Primitive Technology: Iron prills
Adults TechnologyPrimitive Technology: Iron prills - Creating Iron prills from scratch
How Black Panther's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED
Adults TechnologyDaryl Sawchuk, Visual Effects Supervisor for Method Studios and Animation Supervisor for Black Panther, gives WIRED an exclusive look at breakdowns of the digital Black Panther and Kilmonger suits, and the final fight scene of Marvel's mega-blockbuster.
Is Drifting Really Fast and Furious?
Adults TechnologyVin Diesel and the rest of the Fast and Furious family have taught us that drifting is the fastest way around turns, but are they actually wrong?
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement
Adults TechnologyPrimitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement - Creating wood ash cement from scratch
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
Adults TechnologyThat the Earth's magnetic field was a passive thing - it shouldn't need a continuous input of energy to maintain itself (that seemed reasonable to me because the magnetic field has been around for a long time and it seems mostly stable).
Ion Thrusters, 3D Printed Metals, and UAV Butterflies
Adults Technologyplease share this video along to any student who you think might be interested in working with us. Also, holy cow look at what we're freaking doing.
Primitive Technology: Sling
Adults TechnologyA sling is a weapon used to fire rocks farther and harder than could be thrown by hand alone. I made this sling from bark fiber that I made into cord.