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by vitruvius 3y ago
Using X-rays to look inside an old and new Bialetti Moka pot, an AeroPress, a Fellow Coffee kettle, and a burr grinder
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by vitruvius 3y ago
Neat comparison at the top of the page between the original SNES controller and the modern Switch controller inside the same enclosure. The battery and wireless system can all fit in the space left from miniaturization.
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by vitruvius 3y ago
This is a huge instrument; the cost of refurbishing it and installing it would easily be $2M+, so the fact that it's free is sort of beside the point!
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by vitruvius 3y ago
Came here to post this. Beautiful animations.
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by vitruvius 3y ago
Lots of self-similarity and efficient packing. And the way figs are pollinated is wild.
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by vitruvius 4y ago
Also, there's an unexpected bag inside your can of shaving cream
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by vitruvius 4y ago
Came here to post this, but you beat me to it :) The scan of the Norelco shaver is gorgeous. And I never knew that there's a bag inside a can of shaving cream.
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by vitruvius 4y ago
The wiring base is the coolest part of this IMO. In the video Tony talks about how the leaf spring connectors physically reconfigure the circuitry when a wire is plugged in.
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CT scans of batteries(scanofthemonth.com)
513 points by vitruvius 4y ago|70 comments
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by vitruvius 4y ago
The LG lithium ion cell that's second on this page is the one inside the Tesla Model Y battery pack.
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CT scans show the design evolution of the iPod(scanofthemonth.com)
15 points by vitruvius 4y ago|0 comments
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CT scans of AirPods evolution(scanofthemonth.com)
1094 points by vitruvius 5y ago|334 comments
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by vitruvius 16y ago
Check out Zimbabwe 1990 vs Zimbabwe 2010 (governance fail) and China 1990 vs China 2010 (governance win). More explanation here: http://blogs.forbes.com/jonbruner/2010/11/18/a-new-way-to-lo...
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Interactive Visualization for the Human Development Index(forbes.com)
1 points by vitruvius 16y ago|1 comments