Lady Gaga made an appearance at this year's CES to present what she claims to be "the camera of the future": a pair of photo and video capturing sunglasses, designed by Gaga for Polaroid. Though more of a novelty gadget than a useful camera, the GL20 camera glasses could potentially turn your face into a real life facebook feed.
Here at WonderHowTo, we certainly have an affinity for outer space-related topics, so I couldn't pass up this horrifying video of a man who just barely survived a simulated space vacuum.
Experimental house, "Roll It", is a collaborative project within Germany's University of Karlsruhe. The basic concept is as follows: using a cylindrical design to maximize space within a minimum housing unit. Not sure how "space efficient" this would actually be, but using it as transport could be fun (until the nausea inevitably sets in).
Making your own leaf skeleton is a fun, DIY project where you strip green leaves of their outer coating and tissue, leaving behind the "skeleton" of delicate veins underneath. Leaf skeletons can then be used as framed art pieces, or delicate decor for homemade cards or ornaments.
The outer skin is nearing completion with only one more lava panel to go (in addition to 2 more water panels on the inner-sphere, but they're a cinch compared to the 1-2 month slog each lava and double-glass panels take to make).
A lukewarm can of soda placed in a refrigerator can take about 45 minutes to chill. On the other hand, a lukewarm can of soda placed in a bowl of ice, water, and table salt can take less than 5 minutes.
Want to reduce the overwhelming smell of paint from a newly painted room? Slice up some raw onions, place them in a bowl of water, and leave them in the room overnight.
Fist full of pennies weighing you down? This will certainly make your pockets lighter.
Learn how to make a patio using concrete pavers; includes details on site preparation as well as cutting pavers and installing edging. Build a patio from concrete pavers.
The technique shown in this 3ds Max tutorial is meant to be a design modeling technique. Watch and learn how to model the Beijing Olympic Stadium in 3D Studio Max.
Laura Caddoo and VideoJug demonstrate how to make a Banana Slip cocktail - a layered shooter, creamy and delicious. This decorative cocktail should make you sleep easier! Firstly take a shooter glass, and half fill it with banana liqueur approximately 25 milliliters. Using the back of a teaspoon, hold it to the edge of the glass. Using the back of a teaspoon, hold it to the edge of the glass. Then pour Baileys over the spoon until the glass is nearly full - a splash or 25 milliliters. Your co...
There are several ways you can go about creating your NURBS helix curve in Maya; I will demonstrate the two easiest ones.
Gather Supplies Ready to make the best Scrabble tile pendant possible? This easy tutorial will show you how to make your own custom necklace out of a Scrabble® tile.
Who doesn't like dumplings? Yummmy. Here in Los Angeles (the home of WonderHowTo) resides Din Tai Fung, a world renown Chinese dumpling house with locations in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea. Patrons have been known to wait hours for their dumplings, which are in one word, perfect. Soft, juicy, piping hot.
A slide shown during a China Mobile conference indicates that Samsung's Galaxy S7 handsets should be hitting the market next March. If this chart is to be believed, it strongly suggests that Samsung will unveil its flagships at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb. 22-25, 2016). For reference, the public got its first look at the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge on March 1st at last year's MWC; the handsets were released a little over a month later on April 10th.
No matter how good you are at baking, we've all had a cookie mishap (or disaster) or two. Sometimes you forget about them and they burn, other times you open the oven to find your sweet treats have melted into one huge, disappointing blob of a cookie. And occasionally, you just picked a bad recipe (although no one ever believes you when this is the case).
Objects Locate all the objects you need to remove before removing panel.
Sometimes you just don't know how many stitches to cast on for a scarf, so here's the perfect solution. Just cast on a few stitches and increase until you have the width that you want for your scarf.
Kindle users love reading. But let's face it—nothing compares to the feel of a book in your hands.
Easter isn't the typical occasion for pranking your friends, co-workers, or boss (if you dare). But this Easter egg-inspired prank by Redditor cheesewing is pretty ingenious, and handing out chocolate eggs any other day of the year might raise some suspicion.
Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to cut crown molding. Steps:
Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to lay a flagstone walkway. Steps:
Piezoelectric Energy In this article, I'll show you how to make a small, wallet-sized device that generates electricity from kinetic energy. The concept is simple: Piezoelectricity is the charge that is produced when certain solid materials (commonly ceramic and crystal) in response to mechanical stress. Piezoelectrics have many applications; in speakers, actuators, sensors, even fuses. For more information, click here.
A knurl refers to one of a series of small ridges or grooves on the surface or edge of a metal object, such as a thumbscrew, to aid in gripping. In this video tutorial you will learn to model a knurl in Maya. Model a knurl in Maya.
Who doesn't love Star Wars? No one, that's who. And if you love Stars Wars, logic would follow that you like lightsabers, so central are they to the tale's mythology. It's part sword, part laser, and makes a sound like a humming motor have multigasms. If I saw one in real life, I would struggle not to lick it, even though that would mean death.
Big fan of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Spec-Ops mode? Then boy do I have the achievement guide for you. In what looks to be a pretty tough to get achievement to get, 'Serrated Edge' asks of you to take down a Juggernaut with your knife. Luckily, you're allowed to use as many flash grenades and pump him with as much lead as possible, as long as the final blow is with your knife.
Halloween is coming up, so many of you may have a need or desire to carve a pumpkin and turn it into a Jack O' Lantern. This week we are going to explore carving our pumpkins into interesting geometric shapes. In this post, we will carve the pumpkins into spherical versions of polyhedra, and in Thursday's post we will carve 2 dimensional stars and some simple fractal designs into the pumpkins.
What's the difference between a paper plane and a paper space plane? Altitude! About 125,000 feet to be precise:
To follow up on the Devil's Fork, here is the trailer for Limbo. From the Wiki:The primary character in Limbo is a nameless boy who awakes in the middle of a forest on the "edge of hell" (the game's title is taken from the Latin limbus, meaning "edge")[1] who then begins to seek out his missing sister.It looks innocent, but if you watch the trailer, you can see the kid stepping on dead bodies and so gruesome deaths. It's out on the 360 via XBLA, I don't know if it's out on any other platform.
I'm no skateboarding pro, so I'm curious. In the case of the 14-wheeled skateboard, does the saying "less is more" apply? Flowlab's unconventional skateboard has been around since the early '90's, and has yet to replace the conventional 4-wheeled model. It boasts that it can "carve to 45 degree angles with no resistance and fluid transitions edge-to-edge", but how does it handle an ollie? Those in the know, please comment below.
This Ship is an origami classic, easy to do and it floats well. You can do the ship just by this Video or also use the steps below.
The cartoon effect is brand new to After Effects CS4. It works by creating edge and fill areas that give footage a cartoon, painterly, or hand-drawn look. See how to turn live-action footage into a cartoon in After Effects CS4. Use the cartoon effect in After Effects CS4.
This modo 302 tutorial explores re-use of existing content in order to create a plate of jello which will later be animated with the vertex map deformer. During the modeling of the jello we employ the enhanced Edge Extend too from modo 302. Modo 302 is free to all registered modo 301 users. Create a plate of jello in modo 302.
This automotive repair tutorial shows you how to lap valves in an engine. Also known as a valve job, you'll learn how to increase flow by redoing the edges of your motor's valves. Lap valves.
This method is easy, intuitive and requires very little math. You will need:
Pay attention to these ironing tips to iron your pants perfectly. Crisply ironed pants help create a pulled-together look. Follow these simple steps for a quick, flawless press?with creases or without. Learn how to iron pants with the folks from Martha Stewart's REAL SIMPLE.
Learn chin placement, squats, rally strategy and other skils for aggressive competitive inline skating. These are skill games using inside and outside edges of inline skates. This shows the techniques in rallying on speed skates. Rally in competitive speed inline skating.
The FocusBug is the heart of FocalPoint 1.0, a plug-in for Photoshop that allows you to adjust blurs and edit images based on a user defined focal point. See how to use this intuitive control, FocusBug, to define your sweet-spot and adjust the amount, type and edge of the blur, within the FocalPoint plugin for Photoshop. Use FocusBug in FocalPoint Photoshop plugin.
Watch this video from This Old House to learn how to create a small deck. Steps:
