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 on MSN: Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Hill: Deep-sea ‘hot tubs’ help octopus moms hatch their eggs faster