Give Yourself a Brain Massage With 10 Straight Hours of Ocean Footage
A new YouTube video brings serene “oceanscapes” to you. Continue reading Give Yourself a Brain Massage With 10 Straight Hours of Ocean Footage
Category Archives: Marine
Gentle Electric Eel
It’s no shock that electric eels get a bad wrap for being scary creatures. They are slithery fleshy water snakes who can call down lightning. Biologists and engineers at the University of California had something else in mind when they designed their electric eel. Instead of hunting fish, this one swims harmlessly alongside them.
Traditional remotely operated vehicles have relied on hard shells and spinning propellers. To marine life, this is noisy and unnatural. A silent swimmer doesn’t raise any eyebrows, not that fish have eyebrows. The most innovative feature is the artificial muscles, and although the details are scarce, …read more
Using Moiré Patterns To Guide Ships
[Tom Scott] ran across an interesting visual effect created with Moiré patterns and used for guiding ships but we’re sure it can be adapted for hacks somewhere. Without the aid of any motors or LED animation, the image changes as the user views it from different angles. When viewed straight on, the user sees vertical lines, but from the left they see a right-pointing arrow and from the right, they see a left-pointing arrow. It’s used with shipping to guide ships. For example, one use would be to guide them to the center point of a bridge. When the pilots …read more
This Unidentified Sea Creature Washed Up on a Georgia Beach, then Vanished
Some truly odd critters end up stranded on beaches. Here’s what you should do if you find one. Continue reading This Unidentified Sea Creature Washed Up on a Georgia Beach, then Vanished
These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life
The M-AUE robots may look like Minions from the movies, but they are the culmination of 20 years of hard work. Now, if only scientists could stop them from getting picked up at bars… Continue reading These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life