Papercraft master Aliaksei Zholner made this exquisite pipe organ entirely from paper products.
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Barcelona-based Reskate studio paints mysterious street art pieces on walls all over Europe, and people who walk by the seemingly simple artwork during the day are treated to a neat surprise after dark.
The painstaking process requires the artists from Reskate Studio to add the photoluminescent paint details to the simple silhouette during the day, forcing them to wait until after … Read More → "Glow-in-the-dark street art murals come alive at night"
Hater is a mobile dating app (currently on available on iOS so if you hate Apple you’re shit out of luck until spring) that matches couples based on things they mutually hate. That’s pretty smart, because hating the same things is an important part of a healthy relationship.
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The single-rider, human-sized quadcopter that whipped CES 2016 into a frenzy could be carrying passengers as early as this summer. As the head of Dubai’s Roads and Transportation Agency announced at the World Government summit today, the Chinese EHang 184 passenger drone will begin “regular operations” around the futuristic city in July of 2017.
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Pattnaik isn’t new to the sand castle game—he’s a professional who runs his own school dedicated to sand art. He recruited 30 students from his Sudarsan Sand Art Institute to assist on the four-day construction project that broke the record. The intricate castle stands more than 48 feet and 8 inches tall, and is inscribed with the words “ … Read More → "Artist sets Guinness World Record for tallest sand castle"
Agility Robotics, a spin-off of Oregon State University, is officially announcing a shiny new bipedal robot named Cassie. Cassie is a dynamic walker, meaning that it walks much more like humans do than most of the carefully plodding bipedal robots we’re used to seeing. This makes it better at handling the kind of diverse and complex terrain that … Read More → "Agility robotics introduces Cassie, a dynamic and talented robot delivery ostrich"
2. PING PONG BALLS
Anyone who’s watched the top table tennis players in action knows they hit the ball hard and that it travels almost too quickly for the eye to see. But even that pales in comparison to the air-powered cannon built in 2013 by students at Indiana’s Purdue University, which fired ping pong balls at more than 900 … Read More → "Surprising things that have broken the speed of sound"
If the sound of a co-worker repeatedly clicking his pen can send you into a flaming furor, take heart: You’re not being hypersensitive, and you’re not alone. Neurologists in the UK have spotted physical differences in the brains of people with this sound-related rage, although whether these differences are the cause or the result of the disorder remains to be seen. The scientists published … Read More → "Do certain sounds enrage you? Neurologists may know why"
Dan Zhao and Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have created a thermoelectric organic transistor. A temperature rise of a single degree is sufficient to cause a detectable current modulation in the transistor. via Energy Harvesting Journal
The stone marten is the latest dead animal to go on display at the museum. It joins a sparrow that was shot after it sabotaged a world record attempt by knocking over 23,000 dominoes; a hedgehog that got fatally stuck in a McDonalds McFlurry pot, and a catfish that fell victim to a group of men in the Netherlands who developed a tradition for drinking vast amounts of beer and swallowing fish from their … Read More → "Weasel electrocuted at CERN to go on museum display"
