28 July 2010

    Most Dangerous Toy Ever - 1950s Radioactive Science Kit



    Science kits these days don’t contain many items that you couldn’t already find around the house: salt, balloons, magnets and a few odds and ends. But kids who were lucky enough to have wealthy parents in the early 1950s had the unprecedented chance to play with uranium ore in this very cool science kit. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was only sold from 1951 to 1952, and at the time its $50 price tag was too steep for many families.



    The kit came with four different types of uranium ore, a geiger counter, a miniature cloud chamber, an electroscope, a spinthariscope and an educational comic book called “Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom!” Kids could perform their own experiments at home to discover the secrets of radioactive materials and learn how they made “clean, safe” atomic energy. The kit even included a government manual called “Prospecting for Uranium,” which claimed to be able to help kids discover new sources of uranium and be rewarded with $10,000 from the US government.



    Because the radioactive sources only have a finite life, the instruction manual came with a handy re-order form on the back cover. Unfortunately, the product wasn’t on the market long enough for those ores to degrade, much less be re-ordered. There’s no way parents today would let their kids play with radioactive materials, but this science kit has become a much-sought-after collector’s item. Complete sets can sell for more than 100 times the kit’s initial cost.

    23 July 2010

    3D Flash - 24 Most Inspiring Websites















    For those of you with keen eyes and passion for flash, you will notice that 3D flash websites are penetrating into our flash world today. Thanks to the open source 3D engines that do wonders to help create these 3D flash websites, we flash lovers have the luxury of seeing, admiring and getting new perspectives out of these sites. Here are the 24 picked 3D flash websites that we think will inspire you.

    100 Best Films

    Florian Bernard’s Portfolio

    The Profiler

     Glass and a Half Full Productions

    Cristof Echard

    The Economist: Thinking Space

    Tag Galaxy

    I am uniQue

    Audi VDT

    thetoke

    Sony Bravia

    Toyota iQ

    the951

    Me InTru 3D

    Morgan Stanley Matrix

    Honda Accord 2008

    Lech

    Hatica 2009

    Pritt Knutselwereld

    Zeebee

    Coke Live Music Festival

    Shinkansen and Love

    SoInteractive

    Darcmatter Labs

     

    04 July 2010

    Vuvuzela - The Magical Trumpet

     

    Shortly after the kickoff of the FIFA World Cup 2010, an instrument known as the Vuvuzela began capturing the imagination of the Internet. And the Internet hasn’t looked back.


    Now, along with an ever-growing list of parodies and apps, we have an infographic that has more than most of us would ever want to know about the Vuvuzela, including data on its prevalence on Twitter, the sales spike on Amazon the instrument has received, and how sentiment towards the trumpet-like device has shifted (hint: it’s not positive).

    Without further ado, the Vuvuzela infographic, created by the folks at Socialradar:

     

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