Tiny sensors monitor honey bee behaviour
Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as ‘swarm sensing’.
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Gear Mechanisms (9 gifs)
Cogwheels, gears … seems simple. One could say that the only thing you can do with them is to build two rotating wheels. But the engineers and their ingenuity knows no borders, it turns out that with one wheel you can create really complicated systems and mechanisms.
Source Code in TV and Films (9 pictures)
Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are.
How Technology Makes Us iDiots
With so much information readily available–and literally at our fingertips–it would be reasonable to assume that we’d be one of the most learned generations in recent memory. As empirical evidence might suggest, though, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Barcelona-based design studio Big Lazy Robot highlights this paradox, poking fun at our intellectual decline at the height of technological innovation.
Amazing device that allows to display images in mid air
Leia Display Systems are the devices that allows to display images in mid air. This unique technology makes possible to walk through the image, touch it or interact with it. Streams of bearly visible fog becomes an image carier and their laminar structure allows to display hi resolution contents.
25 Most Hilarious Ig Nobel Prizes Ever Awarded
A parody of the Nobel Prize, the Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year for the most trivial or strange advancements in scientific research. These are the 25 most hilarious Ig Nobel prizes ever awarded.