Author Archives: Niall Murphy

A 5cm long female Rainbow Toad – one of the world’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Frogs’ (no really): last spotted in 1924, this was one of three photographed this month in the Borneo rainforest.

Triple herpetology rainbow all the way!

‘Lost’ Rainbow Toad Rediscovered After 87 Years ((Live Science)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKF6nFzpHBU

The rolling shutter effect, (where a digital camera scans horizontally or vertically across the visible frame rather than taking a series of snapshots), as applied to the oscillations of plucked guitar strings.

Here’s what happens when you film a spinning propellor.

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The handsome MCLK12 mantle clock by amplifier maker McIntosh has the same faceplate and meters as the company’s audio hardware, including hands that “flyback in retrograde fashion when they reach the end of their scale”.

It costs $2,000.

Now you’re amped.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Vy_YzhwHE

A few weeks ago, we posted on the final construction of the world’s steepest rollercoaster: the €26.3 million Takabisha (meaning ‘dominant’) at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement park. The ride opens this weekend, but here’s a first person POV of the entire 112 second, 100kph experience.

Lose your chips for just €8.80.

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