Earlier this February, four SPanish students from the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal school in Spanish Catalonia have managed to take stunning pictures from 20 miles above Earth using a £56 camera and latex balloon.
Haha! geek’s girlfriend was asked to retell the Star Wars plot, which she only seen a bit of.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web over 20 years ago and for his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video.
Watch his talk on TED.
Twitter is big news these days. The micro blogging service has about 6 million unique visitors per month. In the grand scale of things, 6 million people isn’t that many.
And to prove the point, Silicon Alley Insider has come up with a list of 100 things more popular than Twitter.
Aimee Mullins gave a great talk at TED “How my legs give me super-powers”
Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be. About Aimee Mullins
Some geeky dude posted 14 tape recordings of classic arcade sounds on his Coin-Opvideogames blog, which he recorded with his friend from 1982 until 1988 using Sony TCS-310 Stereo Cassette Recorder.
A fun video of bridges being blown to pieces to the sound of the Barber of Seville.
This corkscrew was built from three hundred found parts by Rob Higgs, creator of the 10 meter high Nutcracker. Like it? The corkscrew is available for sale as a limited edition of just 100 worldwide.
