mark rober
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How To Win Your Physics Class Egg Drop Competition
The problem is simple enough. You’ve got a raw egg, and it’s going to be dropped from a high place. You have to build a contraption so that it doesn’t break when it hits. Easy? Maybe. But how do you make it as light as possible? Or as small as possible?
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Smartphones Turn These Masks Into Incredible Animated Halloween Costumes
Proving that sometimes all it takes is a popular YouTube video to kickstart a successful business, Mark Rober, the guy who made the Halloween masks that come to life with nothing but a smartphone running a free app.
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NASA Engineers Built An Insanely Complex Bullet-Time Rig For Fun
Back in May, our friend and ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober, figured out a way to shoot “bullet time” videos on the cheap, with a ceiling fan, a pair of torches and a GoPro. Pretty damn creative, but the rig had its limitations. So Mark set out to find a way to create a similar…
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The Scooby Doo Picture Frame Gag Gets A High-Tech Spying Twist
Are there any here among us who didn’t watch Scooby Doo as a kid, see a villain spying (with blinking eyes) behind a picture on the wall, and secretly wish we could do that? We may never be allowed to carve holes in our walls, but we can still make that dream come true.