Most folks pick up the pace or seek cover when the skies open up and it starts to pour, but that’s precisely when Gustavo Sousa takes to the streets to collect some creative inspiration.

The Brazil-born, NY-based art director uses h20 sent straight from the heavens for his Rain Paintings, a series of small watercolor clouds identified by the date … Read More → "These minimalist watercolors are made from drops of rain"

If proteins could talk, what would they say? Josiah Zayner still doesn’t know — but he does have a sense of what they’d want to sing. That’s because Zayner has developed a new musical instrument that relies on infinitesimally small plant proteins to produce melodies.

Zayner, who recently completed a PhD in biophysics at the … Read More → "The world’s smallest violin: scientist uses plant proteins to create a new musical instrument (video)"

To celebrate their early digital release of Iron Man 3, blinkbox hired Ohio balloon artist Jeff Wright of Wright Entertainment to create a full Iron Man suit using 500 balloons.
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A mummy that would seemingly be of Egyptian origin has been discovered a long way from its apparent home. A 10-year-old boy found the sarcophagus along with a mummified body in the attic of his house in Diepholz, Germany last month, Read More → "Mysterious mummy found in German attic by 10-year-old boy"

The world’s thinnest computer keyboard has been revealed by tech company CSR.

The keyboard is as thin as a sheet of paper and works with tablets and computers wirelessly using Bluetooth.

It’s flexible and measures just 0.5mm thick.
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By day, Marcus Byrne works as a motion graphics designer for clients like Honda. But one night the Melbourne-based designer and self-proclaimed Apple geek decided to create a new font using the colorful icons on his iPhone and came up with a lively collection of letterforms and a typeface called Phone Streak.

Byrne … Read More → "A glowing font created by waving an iPhone in the dark"

In a series of illustrations under the bold headline, “Mammoth Flying Swing to Give Bird’s Eye Pyramid View,” we see the pyramids as they could have been — the main attractions in Giza’s own version of Disneyland.

Signed by Art Williamson in the June 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Invention … Read More → "The 1931 plan to turn the pyramids into an amusement park"

Lots of breakthroughs are hailed as providing a “window into the brain,” but a team of mechanical engineers at UC Riverside have taken the phrase literally, creating a transparent material that could be used to surgically replace patches of skull.

The breakthrough itself is relatively simple — a clear version of a common biocompatible ceramic … Read More → "Scientists develop a literal window into the brain"

Researchers like Raul Rabadan, a theoretical physicist working in biology at Columbia University, want to understand how viruses that ordinarily infect birds or pigs suddenly jump to humans and then become easily transmissible: “What are the specific mutations that contribute to a virus becoming a human pathogen?” he explained.

Traditionally, answering this question would have required a painstaking comparison of the DNA or protein sequence of … Read More → "AI could help predict which flu virus will cause the next deadly human outbreak"

The kiosk has access to a remote server where publishers upload the latest editions of their periodicals, and using a touchscreen interface customers can browse more than 200 different magazines, newspapers, or journals. When they come across an issue they want to buy, a simple credit card transaction results in a high-quality, freshly printed copy courtesy of a high-speed Ricoh printer on the inside. And the first machine has officially been … Read More → "This kiosk prints magazines and newspapers as they’re purchased"