This video about “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” is from a book by Rob Bryanton. The video explains 10 dimensions using simple drawings to help you understand..
Official Website: www.tenthdimension.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
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Wally Wallington is a retired carpenter with 35 years experience in construction which has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity, Wally also believes he has the technique to build pyramids..
Official Website: www.theforgottentechnology.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
This one minute video visually demonstrates how tiny the earth is, as well as how tiny our sun and the other planets are..
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Th!nk City electric car, a four-seater with 110 mile (177km) range and top speed of 65 mph (104kph), priced under $25,000, made from 95% recyclable materials, available in Europe soon and also in the U.S. in 2009.
Official Website: www.think.no
Video Link: www.youtube.com
A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park while on safari.
This video has become very famous with over 29million views, also this is the winner of youtube’s Best Eyewitness Video..
Official Website: www.battleatkruger.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
This speech which is done by Professor Steven Hawkings is called ‘Why we should go into space’ and is the third in a series of NASA lectures featuring prominent leaders who discuss the benefits provided by space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research to the economy, education, health, and the environment..
Article Link: www.nasa.gov
Video Link (part 1): www.youtube.com
Video Link (part 2): www.youtube.com
Video Link (part 3): www.youtube.com
Xin Sarith Azuma Phan Wuku is making his way to the big time, especially after his youtube video ‘Urban Ninja’ became a hit with over 20million views, he’s now created a team called EMC (Evolved Mokey Combat), which is a team of martial artists that train in a very unque style, its a hybrid system consisting of many different disciplines such as Chinese Gung-Fu, Kick Boxing, Tae Kwon Do and Acrobatics..
Official Website: www.originalxin.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
ZME Science has a nice article on the 5 tallest mountains from around the world, including pictures and descriptions, check it out. Here are the top five, I find it interesting that they all peak at around the same height..
1. Everest – 8848 meters.
2. K2 – 8,611 meters.
3. Kanchendzonga – 8,586 meters.
4. Lhotse – 8,516 meters.
5. Makalu – 8,485 meters.
Article Link: www.zmescience.com
(Photo of Mt. Everest by Carpe Feline)
Hippo Rollers are a water transportation device, the roller holds 3-4 days worth of water for a family of 7, about 5 times the amount of water that can be moved using traditional methods, which frees up time for more productive economic and educational activities. It’s an amazing product and an amazing story of good design enabling communities. Inhabitat.com has an interesting article where they are reporting on 75 Hippos that have been donated to a village in South Africa..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
Official Website: www.projecthdesign.com
The great white shark, also known as white pointer, white shark, or white death, is an exceptionally large shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of more than 6 m (20 ft) and weighing up to 2,250 kg (5,000 lb), the great white shark is the world’s largest known predatory fish. Watch this video as one jumps completely out of the water while catching a seal..
Information Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
After having the following video on youtube for months now, Popular Science has gone and done an article on the suit and its maker, This thing is pretty amazing..
Article Link: www.popsci.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup..
Article Link: www.vbs.tv
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Requiring 80 percent fewer air conditioning units, the water-cooled Power 575 can reduce typical energy consumption used to cool the data center by 40 percent. IBM scientists estimate that water can be up to 4,000-times more effective in cooling computer systems than air..
Article Link: www.ibm.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Here in New Zealand a man called Gav has built himself a working electric car. Even better he has documented his whole process and has made it available so others can learn!
Gav’s EV reaches about 130km/h and can travel for about 35km, check out the interview video below that was on the NZ news..
Official Website: www.kiwiev.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current US political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future..
Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
There isn’t any information available about it at this time other than it “might” cost up to $50k and it can move in any direction. It uses the same parts that a Segway uses but doubled, it can haul up to 400 lbs..
Article Link: www.makezine.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Luxim labs recently unveiled an incredibly energy efficient light bulb that packs more luminosity than a street lamp into a pill-sized form factor. Each bulb is filled with argon gas, which turns to plasma when electricity is focused through it. The energy is driven to the bulb without electrodes. The resulting light is intensely bright and mirrors the quality of light radiated by the sun, yet is produced by one of the smallest, most energy efficient light sources..
Article Link: www.inhabitat.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
This is an interesting watch as it begins with scorpion vs scorpion, and results with a shrew coming in for the final battle with the winner..
Video Link: www.youtube.com
By using the SkySails-System, a ship‘s fuel costs can be reduced by 10- 35% on annual average, depending on wind conditions. Under optimal wind conditions, fuel consumption can temporarily be reduced by up to 50%.
The first pilot systems are in operation on board of cargo vessels. Currently, SkySails is offering SkySails-Systems for cargo ships, fish trawlers and super yachts with towing kite areas of up to 320m².
Virtually all cargo ships can be retrofitted with the SkySails technology trouble-free..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Official Website: www.skysails.info
Potenco’s Pull-Cord Generator keeps portable electronic devices working all the time while providing freedom and independence from traditional power sources.Simply hold the PCG in the palm of one hand, pull the cord with the other hand, and generate instant energy..
A minute of pulling the PCG generates enough energy for:
– 20 minutes of talk time on a mobile phone.
– 1 hour of ultrabright LED flashlight use.
– 3 hours play time on an iPod Shuffle (about one pull per song).
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
Official Website: www.potenco.com
What happens to earth right after 6.6 billion people disappear?
Video Link: www.youtube.com
WWF has released some very creative posters, most have to do with endangered species, poaching, deforestation, global warming and pollution..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate the first voiceless phone call.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Ok its time for another awesome video from the Common Craft Show. In this video Wikis are explained in how we use them, how they work and why they are useful in todays world, enjoy the video..
Article Link: www.commoncraft.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Scientists may still not have a handle on where all that carbon dioxide ends up in the atmosphere, but they and policy analysts do at least know which countries those emissions originate from..
Article Link: www.treehugger.com
PDF Link: www.kelsocartography.com
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs, and a best-selling author. If anyone can predict time travel its this man..
Michio Kaku Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
The ISS (International Space Station) just became more international with the additions of the first part of the Japanese space laboratory named KibÅ which means Hope, and Canada’s robotic arm system called Dextre, which will now perform a lot of the ISS’s general maintenance instead of having astronauts do it in space walks..
KibÅ Info: www.wikipedia.org
Dextre Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth, BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight..
Official Website: www.bostondynamics.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding, she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another..
Website Link: www.ted.com
Video Link: www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
This is part of the BBC series Blue Planet, described as the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans, each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life..
Article Link: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Here is a nice video of the installation of a wind turbine, these things are much larger than you first expect, keep up the great work ecotricity..
Official Website: www.ecotricity.co.uk
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail has written a great article about his new favorite topic Free! Chris can definitely see where the future of tech is going, and how it is going to change how we live, and hopefully change society’s around the world for the better. This is a great and very interesting read, also there is a video of Chris explaining the theory of free. Im looking forward to his book on the topic in 2009..
Article Link: www.wired.com
Video Link: www.youtube.com
Brainiac is a British science show, it centralises along the three main cores of science for the British education including chemistry, physics and biology. With this experiment they have used a camera which can take 4000 images a second to show how the human hand reacts in a karate chop..
Article Info: www.wikipedia.org
Video Link: www.youtube.com
In June 2007, The Lightning Car Company announced its intent to develop electric technology for a luxury British sports car – the Lightning GT. This car, to get where it needs to go, uses “electronically controlled traction control which negates wheel spin and unbalance in the power being applied.” Because there is no engine, the Lightning has a maintenance-free motor with just a few parts and together with the control electronics and special batteries, will not need anywhere near the servicing of other sports cars. The Lightning GT reportedly does 0-60 in four seconds and has 700+ rated bhp..
Article Link: www.ecogeek.org
Official Website: www.lightningcarcompany.com
I love Google products, not just because they are free, but that they provide soooo much valuable information in a simple and easy way anyone can use. With an update they have made to Google Earth you can now explore space! They use images from NASA and Telescopes around the world to create a beautiful experience of flying through space..
Google Earth Download: www.google.com/earth
Video Link: www.youtube.com
