YouTube description: In a dusty, crowded shop in Milan, Italy, artist Osvaldo Menegazzi toils, as he has for decades, designing intricate decks of tarot cards. Every card a handmade work of art, Mengazzi... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 304 views • 2:11Videos (114) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: More than five million people die every year from pollution-related illnesses, and nearly 10,000 of those deaths occur in London. But Romain LaCombe has made it his mission to change... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 170 views • 3:27Comparing forward curved blades, backward curved blades and straight blades for a blower impeller.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months ago • 571 views • 10:32YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:26For a few months each winter, Harbin, China, turns into a fantastical "city of ice." From January 5 through February 25, this chilly provincial capital plays host to the Harbin International Ice and Snow... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 432 views • 2:53Via YouTube: This troop of Langur Monkeys show empathetic behavior as they mourn what they think is a dead baby Langur, which is actually a robotic spy monkey, designed to film the primates. This footage... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,269 views • 1:27YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,727 views • 3:13Uhoh YouTube: Most systems and machines people design break from time to time. That also applies to the United States' nuclear weapons. This video was originally published in June 2015.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months ago • 924 views • 3:50YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 240 views • 22 secsI built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 257 views • 7:16Youtube: Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
posted by RedSky 7 years 9 months ago • 817 views • 5:31Inuktitut syllabics are brilliant. A writing system that's not an alphabet, but something really clever: an abugida, one designed from scratch for a language very unlike anything European. /YT
posted by notarobot 7 years 9 months ago • 84 views • 4:06A newly designed wind turbine leaves behind a loud, noisy and sometimes dangerous traditional feature of bladed turbines.
posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 801 views • 1:14YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months ago • 446 views • 2:52YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 812 views • 14:23Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 384 views • 16:04I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months ago • 1,388 views • 4:32YouTube description: "Freemium" games can end up gaming gamers.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 487 views • 4:39