Brian Heater
ZANO, A Palm-Size Nano Drone With Built-In HD Video Capture
ZANO is a palm-size nano drone with built-in photo and HD video capture that can be controlled via Android or iOS device. The little UAV,…
A Smartphone GPS Rapidly Tracks Its Location From Inside an Airplane
YouTube user digicana fired up a smartphone inside an airplane and opened up the mapping app with GPS tracking turned on. The result is some…
Felt Storyframes, An App That Creates Personalized Photos and Then Mails Them Out
Storyframes is a new app by Felt for customizing and mailing out personalized photos. Users edit photos and add a personalized handwritten or typed message.…
Classical Musician Cameron Carpenter Turns the Pipe Organ Into a Touring Instrument
“Birth of the International Touring Organ” documents the quest of flashy classical musician Cameron Carpenter to create a touring version of a church pipe organ…
Hebocon, A Japanese Tournament That Pits Poorly Built Robots Against Each Other
Hebocon is a Japanese robot fighting tournament in which contestants pit terribly built robots against one another. The 31 robots are poorly designed, the stakes…
‘Gamma Wray’, A Documentary About Pop Culture Painter William Wray
Gamma Wray is a documentary directed by French visual artist Loic Zimmermann that looks at the life and work of William Wray, a colorful pop…
‘Killswitch’, A Documentary About Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden, and the Nature of Online Information
Killswitch is a feature-length documentary directed by filmmaker Ali Akbarzadeh that utilizes interviews with digital thinkers Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu, and Peter Ludlow to explore…
A Fascinating Experiment That Bends Light Around Objects in Order to Render Them Invisible
YouTube science channel Brusspup recently performed an optical experiment that utilizes a series of four lenses from Edmund Optics to bend light around an object,…
‘Blackout City’, A Composite Video Showing What the London Skies Would Look Like Without Light Pollution
“Blackout City” is a short video by photographer Nicholas Buer that utilizes composite footage to explore what the skies above London would look like in…
A Look at Sandwich Video, A Production Company That Makes Innovative Videos for Tech Startups
In the latest episode of its Small Empires series, The Verge takes a trip to Sandwich Video (previously), a Los Angeles-based production company founded by…