Artist Martin John Callanan and the Advanced Engineered Materials Group at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory used an infinite 3D optical microscope to capture 400 million pixel images of the lowest denomination coin from many currencies. ” The Fundamental Units ”
On April Fools Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn’t long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualization of the service’s evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath. More »
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The Evolution of Gmail, Visualized
One side of this picture is a real photograph, the other side is CGI. With CGI getting better and better, it’s almost becoming undistinguishable with real life. Which side do you think is real? The right or the left? More »
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Which Side of This Picture Is Real and Which Side of It Is CGI?
The Verge is reporting that Amazon is in talks with record labels to create a new subscription music service. More »
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Is Amazon in Talks to Create a Subscription Music Service?
With a capacity of more than 16,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) the CMA CGM Marco Polo currently reigns as the ” world’s largest container ship ” but it won’t for much longer. Construction of an even larger line of mega-ships—the Maersk Triple E—will soon be complete and, once launched, will dwarf every other vessel on the high seas. More »
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The World’s Biggest Ship Is Assembled like a Lego Model
In last week’s Hacker Challenge , we asked you to share your best hotel room hack . We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us some clever ways to automate a hotel room. More »
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Hacker Challenge Winner: Automate Your Phone With Old Hotel Key Cards
If your internet connection leaves you constantly waiting for streams to buffer, you probably love nothing more than to bitch and gripe about bandwidth. But easy there, tiger, because your issue could be a much more fundamental issue that everyone seems to have forgotten about: latency. More »
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Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Latency
Google has just announced that it’ll be killing off Google Reader in its latest ‘spring cleaning’, which is a euphemism for getting rid of products that not enough people use (even if they still love using it). So yes, that means many people’s favorite RSS reader will be turned off for good on July 1, 2013. You have a little over three months to figure out where to get your feed fix next. More »
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Google Is Killing Google Reader
Bismuth (Image: fluor_doublet/R. Tanaka/Flickr ) We all know the periodic table of the elements from high school chemistry, but have you ever wondered what the actual chemical elements look like? Japanese chemist and photographer R. Tanaka is on a mission to photograph the world’s most photogenic elements and we dare say he succeeded with flying colors. Check out his website and Flickr page to see more wonderful images of the elements. Osmium Palladium Monoclinic sulfur Oxidized arsenic Gold crystal Lead Platinum Ruthenium Tellurium Oxidized vanadium View more over at R. Tanaka’s Flickr set: The Elements – via Visual News
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Gorgeous Photography of The Elements
If you put on these Nike Free 5.0s, you might not be able to ever take them off. That’s because the latest training kicks from Nike use a lockdown system inspired by Chinese finger traps. That means these shoes lock down your foot so you can move more freely. More »
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These Nike Free 5.0 Shoes Are Like Chinese Finger Traps for Your Feet