Amazing

Cameras

An Inspirational Blind Photographer

1:00PM February 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

| Artists Wanted | In Focus : Pete Eckert from Artists Wanted on Vimeo.

Pete Eckert is a photographer. He’s also blind after suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa. The video above shows his amazing photography process—from composing, snapping to processing in the dark room. Eckert is doing something he loves, even if most of us would foolishly assume he couldn’t. Check out Pete Eckert’s website here. [Pete Eckert via Neatorama]


Mobile

The World’s Fasted Hands Free Typer Is A Quadriplegic

9:00AM February 6, 2011 | Casey Chan

This is so cool. Hank Torres is paralysed from the shoulder down but with the use of Swype and a head tracking device he was able to set the Guinness World Record for fastest hands free typing. More »


Online

The Miracle Of Birth On Google Street View

5:40AM November 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Well, this is certainly more life affirming than your usual dudes with guns/drug dealers/dead people Google Street View fare. Yup, that’s the youngest citizen of Wilmersdorf, Germany, captured moments after birth by good old 9-eyes. More »


Science

Frank Reynolds Treated His Own Spinal Cord Injury And Walked Again

2:00AM September 27, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Frank Reynolds’s story is obviously a complex, multi-year affair that involved years of research, but for the attention-span deprived, a summary: He was paralyzed. He researched neuroscience. Created a company. Tested a new surgical procedure on himself. He walked again. More »


This Couch Turns Into A Snooker Table

4:00AM June 12, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Plenty of couches pull out into beds, but how many of them pull out into snooker tables? Not enough, if you ask me. More »


Geek Out

Rebel Shark That Plays By His Own Rules Jumps Onto Waterslide, Lives Fast, Dies Young

4:00AM December 20, 2008 | Adam Frucci

A very steep water slide? Pretty scary. The same water slide, but with a shark coming down it right behind you? Yeah, that takes things to the next level.

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