Tag: Demo

• 12.24.07

  Dr. Schrempp's Chem Lab

  Building Fire with Chemistry Strong acids are cool; fire is even cooler. Combine the two and you can destroy your math homework without leaving the faintest trace of its existence. In this WIRED SCIENCE demo, Los Osos High School chemistry instructor Chr

• 12.17.07

  Luis von Ahn: Human Computation

  Inventing Guilt-free Computer Games Without a doubt, computer games are addictive;  after hours of playing, it’s easy to feel guilty for not doing something more useful with your time. But what if computer games were useful in that they helped

• 11.19.07

  Dr. Schrempp's Chem Lab

  A Chemistry Teacher Illustrates the Beauty of Supersaturation It's not every day that you can watch a piece of crystalline white "ivy" growing centimeters-per-second in front of your eyes. But then again, it's not every day that you get to hang

• 11.12.07

  Touchtable

  Giant LCD that’s Way Cooler than an iPhone It's kind of like a giant iPhone, but way cooler—and it can do  so many more things. The TouchTable is an instrument that behaves like, well, a touch table—it's a giant LCD screen with lig

• 11.5.07

  High-Speed Photos

  If you've ever tried to capture on camera the beauty of a glass breaking or a balloon popping, you know it's not easy—you're likely to see only the "before" or "after," because the event happens so darn fast. But DIY expert Bre P

• 10.29.07

  Dr. Megavolt

  Who says you have to wait for a thunderstorm to see lightning? Heck, why not make it yourself? That may have been the thinking of renowned physicist Nikola Tesla* when created what is now known as the Tesla Coil, an instrument that transmits electric

• 10.22.07

  Glow Stick

  Why Do Glowsticks Glow? Here's How To Make Your Own This week, Chris Hardwick helps us make glowsticks—you know, those fluorescent things that you absolutely had to have with you at concerts when you were 13. What makes a glowstick so pretty and g

• 10.15.07

  Origami Master Robert Lang

  The Folding Physicist Origami: It’s not just about folding up pieces of paper to make those little cranes anymore. Physicist Robert Lang has made a science of this ancient Japanese art. In more than 30 years of practicing the craft, Lang has create

• 9.17.07

  Photosynth

  Snazzy New Software Gets the Whole Picture There must be millions of amateur snapshots of the Grand Canyon floating around on the Web. What if you could link them all together into a single image of the whole place, one that you could view from any angle