Archive: April 30, 2011
gigapixel-royal-wedding

Cool! The BBC has posted a 1.15-gigapixel image from the Royal Wedding showing an amazing 200-degree field of view. And like all gigapixel photos, you can literally pick out a face in the crowd and zoom right on it and see it in fine detail!

John X. Carey and Creable Films visited Wilcox Elementary School in East Los Angeles to interview Maria Rosa Reifler, a teacher who is giving low-income students hope for the future in form of truly inspirational and life-changing teaching. Reifler offers the kids a place where they can feel safe in a relatively unsafe neighborhood and [...]

This video recorded on January 12, 2011 shows a US Air Force Captain returning home from Afghanistan and being greeted by her dog Molly. If you want to see more videos like this, be sure to check out this post showing videos of other dogs greeting their owners home from war.

Wow wow wow. DVICE posted this demo video of some of the highly effective road blocks and barriers made by Barrier1 Systems, Inc.. I’ve known about the effectiveness of bollards from other demo videos but I have never seen nets like the ones in the video above that are flexible yet strong enough to stop [...]

This invention called the HydroBOB is a personal underwater submersible with a pressurized dome that traps just enough air for your head to remain completely dry while your entire body is underwater. A pretty rad idea, except for the fact that it looks like it has to remain close to the surface due to some [...]

child-hurt-in-tornado

Photo: AP Photo/The TimesDaily, Daniel Giles Of all of the photos I’ve seen so far from the devastating tornadoes that have ripped through the South, none has been as emotional as this one showing a first-responder clutching a child who was dug out from a destroyed home in Alabama on April 27, 2011. Man, so [...]