Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.
Sketch Mobile is a drawing tool that takes advantage of the new capabilities presented in modern mobile browsers; including multi-touch, the accelerometer, and the gyroscope; providing a fun & novel environment to express yourself in colorful ways! Sketch Mobile was commissioned by Google as part of the Mobile Chrome Experiments released at Google I/O 2012. Sketch Mobile utilizes multi-touch ...
Here’s something we should all totally get behind: strangers drawing strangers Facebook profile pictures. Called Selfless Portraits, it’s an incredible art project that allows random people to draw ...
New Scientist: Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
Octopuses are even more sophisticated than we thought. Despite generally being solitary animals, they can work with fish to find prey and recognise which team members aren’t helping. That is the ...
Four new species of deep-sea octopus have been discovered on underwater mountains around 3 kilometres down in the Pacific off Costa Rica, according to Schmidt Ocean Institute. A radical new theory ...
The Hill: Deep-sea ‘hot tubs’ help octopus moms hatch their eggs faster
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of octopus huddled together, protecting their eggs at the bottom of the ocean off the central ...
Ars Technica: The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system
With their quick-change camouflage and high level of intelligence, it’s not surprising that the public and scientific experts alike are fascinated by octopuses. Their abilities to recognize faces, ...