Flyboard
AdultsSportsTechnologyAdventureGadgetsWelcome 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
Human Chair Scare Prank - Hidden Man
AdultsCreativityHumorEntertainmentMagician Rich Ferguson is up to his pranks mixed with magic again as the hidden man in the chair prank!
How Liquipel Will Make Your Phone Waterproof
AdultsPhysicsTechnologyGadgetsScienceBusinessWe 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.
Escaping Earth with Morgan Freeman
AdultsSpaceTVEntertainmentScienceAn intergalactic space voyage narrated by the smoothest voice on planet Earth.
3D sound "Holophonics"
AdultsInternet CultureTechnologyMusicScience3D 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.
Li Hongbo | Out Of Paper
AdultsArtCreativityBooksDesignThe former book editor whose fascination with one material has gone to artistic extremes.
Mumford & Sons Concert in Surrey
AdultsCitiesMusicCultureEntertainmentAttendance is expected to be around 25,000 in the beautiful public space which is located near Central City shopping centre, and two SkyTrain stations.
World Record Paper Airplane Distance
AdultsCreativitySportsEntertainmentHow-toThe New World Champion Paper Airplane Book is now available for order at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and other places. Learn to fold this plane.
Heart of Vancity
AdultsCitiesFilmCultureThe Heart of Vancity is a portrait of downtown Vancouver. I am always inspired by the city lights at night and tried to find new ways to show off the city's beauty. This entire film was shot during the winter months which made it very difficult to shoot because of all the rain!
Christian The Lion - Reunited - From "The View"
AdultsAnimalsHumanHistoryEntertainmentIn 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. 'Christian' was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast
Chicken Head Tracking - Smarter Every Day
AdultsAnimalsScienceTechnologyChickens have a great ability to keep their heads stable. Our bodies use a gyro-like mechanism in our ears which has 3 mutually orthogonal inertial measurement devices. Modern motion processors use something called an Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU). These devices provide movement data which can be used to compensate for the movement. Chickens apparently have the same type mechanism only with a higher update rate.
Guy Jumps In To Water Thinking it Was a Puddle
AdultsHumorInternet CultureFunnyJust jumping into a harmless puddle.