You're most likely to not leave your home without your phone these days. And on top of all the apps that we've usually got on it, here's one that may just be really useful.
Called "Drops First Aid", it is an iOS app that makes sure your phone helps to give you crucial information you require. It offers quick and easy lessons on what you need to do to keep others safe in an emergency like situation.
This video created by Felix Pharand is for the opening of the Bonn meeting in Germany, where it is meant to highlight major global water research and track the shift in power and the unsettling consequences to come.
A new program by Onformative will give us a bird's eye view of every facial landform on Earth. You know, the kind that looks like a face.
The program uses openFrameworks and Google Maps and it scans satellite image after satellite image with a facial detection algorithm to pick out any potential new geological "faces". Onformative hopes to explore this general phenomenon:
Explaining a joke makes it unfunny, immediately. But here are some videos to help explain jokes to the less able mathematicians out there.
And, yes, they're really funny. Hit the jump to watch them. [Numberphile]
We're sure you've realized that having a glass of orange juice and brush your teeth makes OJ taste weird.
According to Bytesize Science, it's because your tongue gets coated with foamy oral detergent. So hence, the explosion of yucky taste. [Bytesize Science]
How does a trumpet work? It's simple. Watch how it works in the Gif above. Understand now?
Chris Hadfield may be safely back on Eath, but his space videos continue to surface. Here he is trying to enjoy a game of space darts. But with zero g, How does he do it? Check out the video below to watch:
Roppongi Hills complex created a short called Tokyo City Symphony by projecting 3D animation onto a 1:1000 scale model of the city and used some catchy techno rifts to make the cityscape appear to look like it was dancing along to the music.
On holiday right now but miss your pet so much you just got to play with it? A game of "chase the laser" with a cat is fun, because animals just don't get how that little red dot is taunting them.
To allow owners to play with their pets even when they're away, here's Petcube, a gadget currently in pre-production. The gadget will couple a Wi-Fi connected 720p camera with a laser pointer, and it can be used through a website or an app, and you can control the laser and allow anyone in the world to play with your pet.