Bill Hammack describes how metals like aluminium and titanium are made resistant to corrosion by growing an oxide layer into the metals. These is the same process used on many Apple products. This video is based on a chapter in the book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
It’s best to let your car drip dry on a clothesline for an hour or so after washing. The art collective Generik Vapeur illustrated this at the Flurstücke 011 festival last year in Münster, Germany — via Neatorama
Bell & Ross has announced the Vintage BR126 sport, a two-counter chronograph powered by an automatic ETA movement. It will be availble this July in either a stainless steel ($4,800) or black leather strap ($4,500) — via WatchTime
An interesting build, but this Hubert Thomas-designed 1930s art deco five-bedroom property in Neston, Cheshire has been modernised considerably inside.
Not that it’s the end of the world of you want authenticity. The structure of this 1935 build is still faithful to the original design, with the inside being just ‘decor’. Little details like the parquet flooring are still inside too. Get some windows in keeping with the original design, tone down that interior and you could have a period gem once more.
The asking price is £499,950 — via WowHaus
Maria McMahon crafted this beautiful stained glass squid at her studio in Scotland — via Laughing Squid
Sarah London’s intensely colourful crochet work always makes me smile. She has a new pattern for these fun Hawaiian flowers over on her blog. I like seeing them all stitched together, but I think they’d also be fun on their own as coasters or special decor — via CRAFT
Classified Moto are just turning out winner after winner. It’s hard to believe the Richmond, VA-based hotshop has only been operating for two years, but owner John Ryland now has orders for 13 bikes on the go. This is his latest, based on a 1989 Yamaha Virago XV1100. The machine has a more aggressive look than previous CM bikes: it’s angular, muscular and low-slung. We just had a gallery-type show in NYC, and everyone who sat on the bike put on their ‘mean biker’ face,
laughs Ryland — via Bike EXIF
Japanese scientists have created a functioning human liver from stem cells, according to a newspaper report.
The development, announced on Friday, raises hopes for the manufacture of organs for transplants.
A team of scientists transplanted induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the body of a mouse. They grew into a small, but working, human liver, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1623, Avedis Zildjian founded a cymbal-manufacturing company in Istanbul.
Now run by 14th generation family member Craigie Zildjian, along with her sister Debbie, the company has outlasted empires, survived a move overseas to the US, and thrived during the economic turmoil of the Great Depression and two World Wars.
Today, the company controls 65% of the world’s cymbal market, and took in more than $50m in revenues last year.
But for the Zildjians, it’s more than just a business — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is not exactly the sound of a stampede but more like the pitter-patter of little hooves that guests can hear at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo’s Great Bear Wilderness exhibit with the addition of a Bison calf born on 16 May. The female calf marks the first birth of this species at Brookfield Zoo since the early 1970s — via ZooBorns
A gigantic yellow foyer five stories high dwarfs the small human by the doorway of La Cite Des Affaires
in Saint-Etienne by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, yet with its childlike and cheery colour and goofy windows, the entry is not forbidding or grand.
These simultaneously imposing and yet almost comic spaces that all frame various sky views in surrealistic ways are created as ways into a government office building complex — via Home Design Find
This Kawasaki W800 custom is the most British
looking build I’ve seen for a while. So it’s ironic that it was built by a German company. It’s called the Lindy Bob
and it comes from LSL Motorradtechnik of Krefeld. In stock form, the W800 is a tribute to 1960s British iron but LSL has repositioned the bike in the 1930s. Check out those boardtracker-style drop bars, the small black headlight, and the 18” spoked wheels with black anodized aluminum rims — via Bike EXIF
Captain Smith, the first and final captain of the RMS Titanic, has a fluid, jungenstil-inspired style straight from the Atlantic.
All wallpaper is hand silkscreened with care on clay-coated paper. Rolls come untrimmed and unpasted. All our papers can be gently wiped and are strippable — via Supermarket
The Clerc Geneve Hydroscaph Steel Central Chronograph comes in a limited edition of 500 pieces in choice of metals (with or without DLC finish) — via Perpetuelle
Q: Is it hard to open a safe?
A: Safecracking is about solving problems and overcoming challenges. That’s the fun part. There are basic skills and advanced skills. Expensive, burglary-resistant safes require advanced skills.
Q: How often do people get locked in vaults?
A: More often than you’d think and bank PR departments would like.
Usually the victims are children or seniors. Grandpa is busy examining the contents of his safe deposit box at closing time when a bank employee only performs part of the vault-closing procedure. Some vaults are L-shaped or there may be alcoves or obstructions inside, so it can happen if the closer doesn’t “walk the vault” as well as call out to possible occupants.
— via Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Thirty-one.
That’s the number of months it took Palm, Inc to go from the darling of International CES 2009 to a mere shadow of itself, a nearly anonymous division inside the HP machine without a hardware program and without the confidence of its owners. Thirty-one months is just barely longer than a typical American mobile phone contract.
Understanding exactly how Palm could drive itself into irrelevance in such a short period of time will forever be a subject of Valley lore. There are parts of the story that are simply lost, viewpoints and perspectives that have been rendered extinct either through entrenched politicking or an employee base that has long since given up hope and dispersed for greener pastures. What we do know, though, is enough to tell a tale of warring factions, questionable decisions, and strategic churn, interspersed by flashes of brilliance and a core team that fought very hard at times to keep the dream alive.
The following is an account of Palm’s ascent prior to the launch of the Pre, the subsequent decline, and eventual end, assembled through interviews with a number of current and former employees — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a move that could be designed to outflank Microsoft in the office productivity app market, Google announced Tuesday it had acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app that allows users to work on Microsoft Office documents on iOS and Android systems.
Details of the deal were not made public by the companies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dan Guilbeault was 3 when doctors discovered a tumour called an optic glioma pressed against his optic nerves. He continued to play the sports he loved — basketball, baseball and football — until he lost most of his sight at 11.
Now he is 19 and almost completely blind, and his favourite sport is tennis.
When he first heard about tennis for the visually impaired, his reaction was No way!
he said. I was sceptical.
So were faculty members at the Perkins School for the Blind here, when a sighted student from nearby Newton proposed it nearly two years ago. But Perkins, known for athletic innovations like adapted fencing, decided to offer what are believed to be the first blind tennis classes in the country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I painted this card in a few hours, so I haven´t too many steps to share, sorry about that, I will try to make a video-process for the next works. Completely done in Photoshop Cs5 with a Wacom Cintiq 12WX — via Felideus Process
Belfast Zoo is celebrating the arrival of two of the world’s largest rodents, in the form of twin capybara babies. They’ve been named Gus and Jacques. Parents Charlie and Lola welcomed their offspring who came into the world on 3 April — via ZooBorns
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