EXPLORE A WORLD Everyday Technology Look inside the familiar things you use every day.
Try a question: How do bicycles work? How does skin feel touch? Why do ships float?
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Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Lava lamps, heat, thermal expansion and buoyancy Why does the same blob come back down? Watch real lava-lamp footage, then release a model blob. Discover why it can rise while cooling, hold it without stopping heat flow, and change the conditions until its journey stops.
Real lamp footage & thermal-history lab Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology 3D printing, layers, slicing and material paths How can a moving nozzle build a solid object? Turn a miniature stand, slice its real geometry and watch material paths build it. Solve a support puzzle, inspect actual fracture images, and take your design and learning notebook home.
Working slicer & material path workshop Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Animation, stop motion, frames and timing How do still pictures become a moving animation? Direct a rigged fox, capture poses and build a real animation. Change pauses, compare in-betweens, inspect a historic motion study, and save your own film.
Rigged character & working animation studio Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Touchscreens, capacitive sensors and resistive screens How do touchscreens detect your fingers? Open a phone into its sensing layers. Move virtual touches, decode changed readings, solve a two-finger mystery and discover why different screens respond to different objects.
Phone sensor lab & measurement puzzle Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Camera exposure, shutter speed, focus and rolling shutter Why is my moving photo blurry? Photograph a moving toy, shorten the exposure, and unroll the time behind each row. Compare motion blur, rolling shutter, missed focus and low-light noise using your own saved captures.
Camera capture lab & cutaway Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Microwave ovens and heating Why is one bite hot while the next is cold? See through a closed microwave, follow a bite around the turntable, and compare where energy arrives with where heat spreads afterward.
3D model & experiments Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Refrigerators and heat pumps How does a fridge move heat out of a cold space? Look through a cold room and follow its refrigerant loop. Count the heat removed and the work added, then try putting both sides in the same room.
3D working model & experiment Explore at your own pace
Interactive exploration Everyday Technology Insulation and heat transfer How can insulation keep warmth in—and heat out? Open a house wall. Swap its added layer, make it thicker, and reverse the temperatures to see why insulation helps in winter and summer.
3D working model & experiment Explore at your own pace
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