Stupid Internet Tricks

Air rings

We usually restrict ourselves to smoke rings, but maybe we can get the Vice Trickster in Charge of Vice to try this on the next trip to the beach. -Head Trickster

Kew Millennium Seed Bank

The site says "The Kew Millennium Seed Bank is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. Its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world's wild plant species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man." That's cool, but we're rocked by the photos, like this Indian Paintbrush seed. -Head Trickster

 

Son of Seeing Sound Redux

Last year we showed you sound with milk. This year it's all about the salt. -Head Trickster

Rockin Robot

Rhythm-seeking robot. It wanders around until it sees something, tests out the sonic quality of the object for drumming, and if it finds it satisfactory, starts jamming. -Head Trickster

More videos and construction details available at LetsMakeRobots.com.

Junket on a Junk

This is a junk.

 

This is a junk boat. It's literally made out of junk. Two guys sailed it from San Francisco to Honolulu. Check out the website. Interesting. -Head Trickster

MarcSteinmetz.com

How To Make A Glass Eyeball: A photo essay. 

And if that's not funky enough for you, there's plenty more bizzare-iosity at Marc's website. The plastination link is pretty creepy. The dinosaur one is pretty cool. And the mixed bag link is, well, a mixed bag. -Head Trickster

If They Had Videos Like This in Chemistry Class . . .

This video helps chemistry finally makes sense. I'll bet geeks all over the world watch this and laugh hilariously, while at the same time thinking of at least 15 other possible scenarios the video could have covered. - Vice Trickster in Charge of Vice

Manta Ray Balloon

This is a very cool balloon. Although I think it's the music that really sets it off. I'd pay almost any amount of money to see this released somewhere near Area 51 during late evening, then watch UFO nuts try to explain it to local authorities. - Vice Trickster in Charge of Vice

Leetle Bugs

National Geographic has a photo gallery of microscopic life forms. Like this [0.2 millimeter long fairy-fly wasp. The Head Trickster did some photomicrography for a science project back in the day. To bad we don't have those pictures now. -Head Trickster

Because We Like Cool Robots

This is the kind of thing that would really come in handy at our apartment complex pool.  There's always too may people in there, and I'm sure this thing could get pretty much everyone out of the water in less than 10 seconds.  It's a dang cool robotic water snake.  -Vice Trickster in Charge of Vice