Archive for the ‘Sci/Tech’ Category

Bug-A-Salt: Salt Gun to Shoot Flies (Video)

Bug-A-Salt: Salt Gun to Shoot Flies (Video)

Throw away your fly-swatter.

LEGO Candy Machine (Video)

LEGO Candy Machine (Video)

A fully functional LEGO candy dispenser machine made by the Youtuber MeMyselfAndMovies at the age of 12 or 13.

Surface Tablet Presentation Fail (Video)

Surface Tablet Presentation Fail (Video)

Microsoft’s Surface tablet froze during the official presentation in L.A. and you can hear how big of an embarrassment that was in the voice of the man doing the presentation – Windows president Steve Sinofksy.

10 Bets You Will Never Lose (Video)

10 Bets You Will Never Lose (Video)

Richard Wiseman strikes again with another set of awesome party tricks. Here are the ten bets you will always win:

Custom LEGO Marble Maze (Video)

Custom LEGO Marble Maze (Video)

WANT!

LEGO Heavy Weapons by Jack Streat (Video)

LEGO Heavy Weapons by Jack Streat (Video)

Youtube king of working LEGO gun replicas, Jack Streat, is back with a video trailer for his new book LEGO Heavy Weapons, which gives instructions how to build four working brick-based LEGO guns: a Desert Eagle, aAKS-74U, Jungle Carbine, and SPAS combat shotgun.

Real Transformer (Video)

Real Transformer (Video)

Kenji Ishida and JS Robotics created this awesome transformer robot which shifts from car to humanoid mode and back in a matter of seconds.

Augmented Reality Sandbox (Video)

Augmented Reality Sandbox (Video)

This augmented reality sandbox comes equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations.

Monkey Fairness Experiment (Video)

Monkey Fairness Experiment (Video)

Taken from the recent TED talk given by Frans de Waal regarding moral behavior in animals, this video shows the reaction of a Capuchin monkey when he receives a different reward for the same task his buddy did before him…

White Killer Whale Spotted for First Time (Video)

White Killer Whale Spotted for First Time (Video)

A white killer whale was spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. The orca was nicknamed Iceberg and is believed to be the first ever entirely white adult killer whale to be observed. Russian scientists caught the rare animal on camera: