Geek Out

Did You Know You Create Rainbows Every Time You Blow A Candle?

This is a wonderful photograph of someone blowing a candle. If you look closely, you can see rainbows on the smoke. Why do they happen?


July 15, 2011
Geek Out

Sony Building Gigantic Permanent Rainbow In Los Angeles

Is it possible to get bored of rainbows? We’re going to find out because Culver City is getting a permanent rainbow installation on Sony Picture’s Culver City lot. That’s right, a forever rainbow… what does that mean?


March 17, 2011
Geek Out

The Rainbow Clouds Of Everest

There aren’t many sights in nature more breathtaking than Mt Everest – especially when put against the unexpected backdrop of these stunning rainbow clouds. Captured by photographer Oleg Bartunov on a recent journey through the Himalyas, the phenomenon is the result of light reflected off of minuscule ice crystals in the cloud’s vapour.


February 8, 2011
Geek Out

The Most You’ll Ever Anticipate A Rainbow

The first two minutes are all foreplay: six spray paint cans being snapped into place; batteries being plugged in; and the grey Robo-Rainbow machine being hitched to the back of a bicycle. Then, finally, sweet rainbow payoff. Yes.


December 24, 2010
Science

The Man-Made Rainbow Machine

Typically, Mother Nature decides when we get to see a rainbow. University professor and artist Michael Jones McKean didn’t quite have that patience, so he made a solar-powered machine that makes two-story rainbows from collected rainwater.


October 26, 2010
Science

Is This Ice Rainbow Actually God’s Eyeball?

I hadn’t heard of ice rainbows before, but apparently they’re quite rare. What’s even rarer, apparently, is photo evidence of one. Photographer Reyaz Limalia spotted it while driving in the English countryside and almost crashed his car because of it.


August 10, 2010

Seeing The City Through A 52m Glass Rainbow

The newest artwork in Denmark’s ARoS museum wouldn’t make much sense anywhere but the roof: Your Rainbow Panorama stretches 170m across, offering visitors a 360-degree view of the surrounding city in dazzling Technicolor.


March 2, 2010

There Is A Rainbow In My Hands

And a party in my pants. I still have to find my pink unicorns, though. Till then, I will keep flipping this book, which makes a rainbow to appear floating in the air, without the aid of any funky pills.


July 17, 2009
Computing

Now All The Alienware M17x’s Keyboard Needs Is A Unicorn

Huh. Matt told me the Alienware’s m17x notebook was blinged out like it “just landed on earth after a long trip from a planet populated entirely by a evolved race of disco lights”. I guess this is what he was talking about. [Crave]


March 28, 2009
Cameras

End of Rainbow Captured On iPhone Camera, No Pot Of Gold

Unfortunately, this gorgeous iPhone shot captured by amateur photographer Jason Erdkamp reveals that there are no leprechauns or pots of gold at the end of a rainbow—just SUVs. Bummer. [Mirror via Digg]