We all know how a dishwasher works in the eyes of the kids. Dirty dishes go in, tiny cleaning elves work their magic, and clean dishes come out! We, adults, however, know that dishwashers spray water with different levels of intensity at your dishes. Add in some detergent and heat to expel the bacteria and boom: your plates are ready to be dirtied once again. It’s easy enough to understand this concept, but not many have actually seen the inside of a dishwasher as it goes about its daily routine. Not many cameras could withstand the extreme heat and weather conditions inside a dishwasher. That is… until now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkJJSsmAdDY Matt…
Nowadays, cellular phones do not just merely serve as a communication tool. And with the help of technology upgrades, we witness how these gadgets are gradually adopting the other main attributes of some gadgets like DSLR. With this, phones inch by inch turned into portable cams that soon gave birth to camera phones. Camera phones are a great alternative for smaller point-and-shoot cameras. Given the innovations in them, they can now deliver almost the same quality of stills and videos you can enjoy in some compact and action cameras. They come in a variety of features, capacities, and capabilities that give you more freedom over your choices. If you are…
Canon is, without a doubt, one of the biggest giants in the photography industry. The brand is known to release models that complement different kinds of users ranging from pros, hobbyists, and beginners. All of them excel in their very own ways and that is why ranking them according to their capability is no picnic. That being said, we picked different kinds of cameras from the selection of models Canon has released. Besides their features, functions, and build, we also take into consideration their ease of use and value to your money. And for you to easily weigh each option, we enlisted the help of Evangeline Summers, NatGeo’s former photographer…
Some products come in different variants to serve specific purposes. The same goes for glasses. Glass is one product that has many variants. You have your traditional glass panes which don’t have anything mixed in with them. You have tempered glass – commonly found on car windshields – which is easy to crush but hard to shatter. There is bulletproof glass – made from a combination of hard and soft glass. And then there’s fireproof glass, which is heat-resistant tempered. Those are just a few of the many glass variants out there. But how do they stack up against something volatile? Something natural? Something like… lava?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_XPaY43YM YouTube channel Superkot…
Almost everybody nowadays owns digital devices from cameras to phones. However, even though we are thriving in the digital era, there are numerous advantages in filming and shooting photos in the traditional way using that old photography friend of ours, the film cameras. Before digital technology entirely replaced film, film photography was the standard method in developing photographs. Cameras that are specifically designed for this unique photography use translucent strips of plastic known as film. During the process, the gelatin emulsion from one side of the film strip produces small silver halide crystals that establish the contrast and resolution of an image. While finding one is still possible, getting a…
Even though we associate the lava lamp with the 80s and 90s, many don’t realize this tantalizing invention has been around since the 1960s. Imagined by entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, these lamps took inspiration from an old egg timer made from a liquid-filled cocktail shaker. After seeing it in a pub, Walker took the idea to inventor David George Smith and had him create the device and liquid you see in lava lamps today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs-cOlrvNwI But how are these mesmerizing desk fixtures made? Insider took a trip to Mathmos, a renamed Crestworth which is Craven Walker’s company. Mathmos has been making lava lamps for more than 50 years now, and…