How to tie your shoes
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way: "Sometimes a small advantage someplace in life can yield tremendous results some place ...
Wine map of France
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »The first London Underground map was still very geographically based, indicating the directions of lines and locations of station, overlaid on geographic features and main roads: In 1938 Harry Beck designed a more diagrammatic map. This was a breakthrough in cartography, ...
Quantum levitation brought to a whole new (game) level
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »Some footage of the work on quantum levitation done at the Japan Institute of Science And Technology. The engineers were inspired by the game Wipeout to do their work: Now package it nicely and you have a geek game that will make ...
In awe (Vesta)
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »A lump of stone, 500 km across, at a distance of 1.228 AU from us (1 Astronomical Unit is 150 million kilometers), and we sent a spacecraft there which made THIS: The Dawn spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 27, ...
Niche market: inflatable crowds
Thursday, June 16th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »This is smart: The Inflatable Crowd Company sells inflatable plastic crowds for movies: Amusing planet has an article on them. Flickr has a photo collection as well.
TEDxBuenosAires
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »The organizers of the TED conference in Buenos Aires had this very smart idea to 'spread the word':
The sOccket ball: electric light from play
Friday, April 8th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »sOccket is a football that stores the energy captured during a game to power LED lamps and batteries. 15 minutes of continuous play gets you 3 hours of LED lighting. Chris Gebhardt from Take Part made this movie about it: This is ...
Schools from rubbish
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Bottle Schools have been building much needed schools out of rubbish and plastic bottles in Guatemala since 2009 with the Hug It Forward project, building 6 schools in total so far with more on the way: For more information, go to ...
Wrapping paper for all occasions
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti designed this universal wrapping paper which contains a word puzzle: simply circle the message you want to use.
Illustrating nuclear fission with mouse traps and pingpong balls
Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Chemistry students at Horizon Science Academy in Cleveland had to illustrate a nuclear chain reaction and came up with this video.They used 300 mousetraps and 600 ping pong balls:
