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 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.
The AMAZING Design of the Parker Solar Probe
Adults TechnologyDustin tells about the Parker Solar Probe on Smarter Every Day
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
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
How exactly does binary code work?
Adults TechnologyImagine trying to use words to describe every scene in a film, every note in a song, or every street in your town.
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).
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.
This Week I Learned to Blacksmith with Alec Steele
Adults TechnologyThis week I learned to blacksmith with Alec Steele. I forged a Scottish knife called a sgian dubh.
The Threat of AI Weapons
Adults TechnologyI'm not sure how alarmed to be about artificial intelligence. Personally I think it's really hard to predict when we'll create a machine that essentially has consciousness.
A Dragon Torched My Hand
Adults TechnologyThere are tons of things I had never considered about how difficult it is to fool your brain into thinking it's touching something it's not.