Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed ZeroN, a futuristic user interface that consists of “a small metal orb floating in free space that users can manipulate by moving around and placing in midair.” Continue reading to see it in-action and for more information.
Sure, these uranium glass-based items may only be negligibly radioactive, but they’re sheer eye candy to say the least. If you’re not familiar with this material, it’s “glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting.” Best of all, they grow a bright green under ultraviolet light. Continue reading to see five weird things made with uranium glass.
His name is Jacob Barnett and he’s not your average teenager; he has an IQ of 170, the highest that it can currently be tested for. That’s not all, he “is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.” Outside of his studies, Jacob enjoys video games, has a girlfriend and attended his first dance shortly before his 13th birthday. Continue reading for more information and a few videos.
Yes, the lavafalls you see above is just an optical illusion. This phenomenon occurs every year at Horsetail Falls in Yosemite during mid-February. To capture it, photographers have to wait until dusk on a perfect day (clear skies on the southwest horizon) – when the sun hits the falls at the perfect angle – to capture the falls in this fire-like state. Continue reading for more pictures, a video, and additional information.
Natural phenomena refers to non-artificial events (not produced by humans) in nature, like volcanic eruptions, weather, and gravity. We’ve rounded up five mind-blowing examples for your viewing enjoyment. First up, we bring you light pillars (above) which are “created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces.” Continue reading to see more.
Yes, some of the Easter Island statues actually have bodies to go along with their heads. For those who aren’t familiar with these statues, they “were carved out of distinctive, compressed, easily worked solidified volcanic ash or tuff found at a single site inside the extinct volcano Rano Raraku.” Continue reading for more pictures.
Summer is just around the corner for some of us and that means lots of time to enjoy fresh fruits like strawberries. While most fruit varieties are nothing special, there are a few that grow to massive sizes. Continue reading to see five of them.
Not just a prop, this lightning gun by Rob Flickenger is fully-functional. This beast is “powered by an 18-volt cordless drill battery that feeds a bank of capacitors and a transformer salvaged from an old television that pumps that 18V up to a much more exciting 20,000V.” Continue reading for more pictures and a video of it in-action.
The jewel caterpillar isn’t the only beautiful translucent animal that you can find in nature, we’ve rounded up seven more, including the “Glass Frog” above, for your viewing enjoyment. Continue reading to see more – plus a bonus video.
Still need a wedding ring and have a meteorite laying around? Then follow in the footsteps of Reddit user “laporkenstein”, who transformed a real meteorite into a wedding ring. Though it may not be as shiny as a blue diamond-studded 24K gold ring, it’s definitely a conversation piece nonetheless. Continue reading for more pictures of the finished product.