Adam Owen

videos

This Camera Won't Let You Take Tourist Photos

If too many photos have been taken in an area, this camera won't let you take another.
Adam Owen
9.10.15
videos

Here’s How You Reconstruct a 1.9-Million-Year-Old Face

Paleoartist John Gurche stokes imagination by bringing our ancestors to life
Adam Owen
9.10.15
Music

Watch an Algorithm Make a Music Video In Your Web Browser

It pulsates with different, trippy computer-generated polygons each time.
Adam Owen
9.4.15
video

Asteroids Better Think Twice About Heading For Earth Now That We Have This Laser

Oh, and it could be a boon for space mining, too.
Adam Owen
9.4.15
america

These 1980s McDonald's Ads Perfectly Predicted Our Future

Watch the restaurant take everything from a miserable old man in this serialized corporate dystopia.
Adam Owen
8.14.15
Tech

This Man Is Crowdfunding a 300-Mile Wall to Keep San Francisco Burning Man-Free

A fake crowdfunding site seeks to build the wall while the Bay Area’s worst techbros are doing peyote in Nevada.
Adam Owen
8.10.15
Canada

Doctors Finally Found a Treatment for Glue Ear: Balloons

Kids love balloons
Adam Owen
7.30.15
video

This Trippy Augmented Reality Sandbox Lets You Move Mountains and Make it Rain

Relive the thrill of playing God as a child while learning about topography.
Adam Owen
7.29.15
Art

Dranimate Uses a Leap Motion Sensor to Turn Anyone Into an Animator

Some of Carnegie Mellon’s best minds made a cartoon duck move with their fingers.
Adam Owen
7.22.15
Internet

The 'Web Training Collar' Shocks You When You Visit an Insecure Site

Would you sacrifice physical comfort for the knowledge that your data is secure?
Adam Owen
7.21.15
video

You Can Now Read the News Styled Like the Beginning of 'Star Wars'

Daily events take on a new urgency when you imagine them in a space opera.
Adam Owen
7.21.15
videos

This Drunken Robotic Finger Is Ripping at the Fleshy Underbelly of the Internet

‘The Random User’ ignores UI principles by clicking wildly across the internet.
Adam Owen
7.17.15
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