The Vortex Cannon

The Vortex Cannon - Student Science - YouTube

After weeks of pestering, we finally give in and let George build a vortex cannon - with surprisingly spooky cup flying results. For more information on the physics behind this head on over to http://www.urn1350.net/thescienceshow to listen to the full podcast!

Source: The Vortex Cannon - Student Science - YouTube

Vortex ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex, is a region of rotating fluid moving through the same or different fluid where the flow pattern takes on a toroidal (doughnut) shape. The movement of the fluid is about the poloidal or circular axis of the doughnut, in a twisting vortex motion. Examples of this phenomenon are a smoke ring or a microburst^[1][2]

Source: Vortex ring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vortex ring toy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A vortex ring toy generates vortex rings – rolling torus-shapes of fluid – that move through the fluid (most often air, and sometimes water). [...] A vortex cannon generates vortex rings, typically using acetylene-air or hydrogen–oxygen explosions.^[1]

Source: Vortex ring toy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vortex Cannon! - Bang Goes the Theory Preview - BBC One - YouTube

Jem Stansfield builds a vortex cannon to blow a house of bricks over.

Source: Vortex Cannon! - Bang Goes the Theory Preview - BBC One - YouTube

Weekend Project: How to Make a Vortex Cannon - YouTube

Source: Weekend Project: How to Make a Vortex Cannon - YouTube

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Feel and Experience Virtual Reality in The Cocoon

The Cocoon, designed by  Tino Schaedler will be  a sleek and shiny human-sized dome where you'll  feel and experience Virtual Reality     enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound.

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Designers developing virtual-reality 'Cocoon'

• The Immersive Cocoon will let you step inside interactive 3D virtual worlds
  
• Motion-tracking cameras will provide a "Minority Report"-style interface
  
• It could be used to explore virtual museums, like the "Virtual Guggenheim"
  
• Augmented reality superimposes virtual information onto the real world

LONDON, England (CNN) -- You're walking along a street in Roman Pompeii at the start of the first millennium when you notice a spectacular stone building. You reach out towards it and your guide informs you it's a temple to the god Jupiter, built in 200 BC. With a flick of your wrist you save the data and, school assignment complete, you step out of your Cocoon and back into your living room.

Educational historical journeys are just one possible use of the Immersive Cocoon, a walk-in virtual-reality pod being developed by NAU, an international design collective that aims to revolutionize the way we interact with computers.
When complete, the Immersive Cocoon will be a sleek and shiny human-sized dome. Step inside and you'll be enveloped by a 360° display screen and full surround sound.

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The designer

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Clipped from: YouTube - Tino Schaedler

Tino Schaedler, the art director for digital set for "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" and "Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix". His double competence is the key of his ability and allow him to merge the two element of a set creation: the phisical and the digital side

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The Inner Life of a Cell (video)

clipped from www.studiodaily.com The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students Created by XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Hartford, CT, the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their surroundings and external stimuli. clipped from www.youtube.com

Inspirational Quotes

clipped from leftofzen.com Top 100 Inspirational Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson 8. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Friedrich Nietzsche 13. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Albert Einstein 19. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Mark Twain 23. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. Mahatma Gandhi 39. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Winston Churchill 49. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Aristotle Hope is a waking dream. Voltaire 55. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Henry Ford 63. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar Truman Capote 76. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. Roy Goodman

About: Japan's Mount Fuji

clipped from www.thethinkingblog.com 9 Smashing Trivia Bits on Japan's Mount Fuji 8) Mount Fuji is a Sacred Mountain and is the Symbol of Japan Mount Fuji 5000 Yen bank note. 7) Mount Fuji is NOT one of the Tallest Mountains in the World Look closer and 'Fuji-san' is less than sanitary 6) Mount Fuji isn't a UNESCO World Heritage Site Trash spoiling Japan's Sacred Mount Fuji. 5) Historically, Mount Fuji has been Off-limits to Women Mount Fuji poster. 4) Mount Fuji is Privately Owned 3) Mount Fuji is an Active Volcano Mount Fuji volcanic activity. 2) What Would Happen if Mount Fuji DID Erupt? Mount Fuji city scape. 1) Mount Fuji in Traditional Art - Tsunami Waves? Mount Fuji Wave Japan Article by Steve Levenstein from Inventor Spot. Steve writes about weird and wonderful Japanese innovations on a regular basis and you can catch up on current & previous examples at his blog. Submit your thoughts - click here

Visualizing the Internet

clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com 3D Geographic network Display The arc map displays a 3D network structure as arcs curving smoothly above a flat map of the world. clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com Hierarchical structure of the Internet This image shows the hierarchical structure of the Internet, based on the connections between individual nodes (such as Computer Networks or Internet Service Providers). clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com Traffic Flow Map The map shows countries with traffic flows between them represented as smoothly curving red lines. clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com Visualization Study of the NSFNET The first image represents byte traffic into the ANS/NSFNET T3 backbone from its client networks for the month of December'94. The second image is a visualization study of inbound traffic measured in billions of bytes on the NSFNET T1 backbone for September 1991. clipped from www.visualcomplexity.com Growth and Topology of the NLANR Caching Hierarchy Web caching is a technology for migrating copies of documents from a server across the network toward points closer to the end users requesting those documents.

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