Hasta La Gadget!

The Mars Rover Curiosity has been a huge success thus far, inducing cheers and high kicks across the nation. Jon Stewart is just as excited. More »

It’s probably time to fire up that second cup of coffee; the journey that TED-ED lecturer Dennis Wildfogel is about to take you on is one of infinite infinities. In other words, it’s going to make your brain hurt. But it also just might make you smarter. More »

This video covers the last two and a half minutes of Curiosity’s descent from her point of view. It’s made of 297 frames captured during the landing. You can see the thermal shield being jettisoned and the wheel of the rover as it’s being dropped by the skycrane. More »

It looks like the usual tennis superstars are going to walk away with all the medals at this year’s Olympic games—yawn. So to make it more interesting and unpredictable four years from now, perhaps the organizers of the Rio games should consider adding flaming tennis balls into the mix, and filming everything in super slow motion. More »

Nike commissioned artist/designer Osamu Koyama to turn a Nike Zoom Force 1 snowboard boot into a jewel. How hard can it be? You just cover it in gold, right? Well, if you’re as meticulous as Koyama, a very long time. Director Ronin followed him through the whole process over the span of nine days—from the initial sketches to the molds to the painstaking assembly. The result is a masterful work of art Koyama calls “American Eagle.” Beautiful, but we’re pretty sure it’s not a very functional snowboard boot anymore. More »