By Rain Noe - Oct 23, 2018

Mesmerizing GIF of How Chicken Wire is Made

The gabion machine feeds wire with a fancy splitting trick

When looking at the hexagonal negative space in chicken wire, you have to wonder: How the heck do they make that? Well, this GIF shows you the gist of it: It took me a few moments of watching it to register that those wire-feeding cylinders are actually splitting in half.

By Rain Noe - Sep 12, 2018

Burning Man 2018 Time Lapse

Watch from the comfort of your own home, mushrooms optional

So you wanted to go to Burning Man this year, but didn't feel like being dehydrated and stoned out of your gourd? Then you missed some magnificent structures, statues, kinetic sculptures, LED light shows, et cetera. But luckily for you, a chap named Mark Day shot them and edited the

By Rain Noe - Sep 04, 2018

Hilarious Short on the Perils of Domestic Technology and Digital Health Devices

…with some cool UI design too

Yesterday we were talking about the Lumen, a technological device designed to help us maintain our health. Projecting into the future a bit, how far could this kind of technology go? Would it, coupled with our ever-increasing levels of connectivity, perhaps lead us into undesirable situations? Filmmaker Sebastian Egert's comical

By Rain Noe - Aug 13, 2018

Video of the Day: Overhead Time Lapse of Dogs Herding Sheep Resembles Computational Fluid Dynamics

A Wellington, New-Zealand-based hunter named Matt Bircham captured the astonishing footage you see below. Upon encountering a sheep farm in Marlborough, Bircham sent his drone up to a distance of 180 meters to capture the sheep dogs doing their herding work, then sped the footage up: "They were moving 3500