How Sex Toy Makers Pick Vibrator Colors
Scoring a color’s sexiness calls for a sketchy rubric at best: Although someone appointed it the color of romance and…
Scientists Create Beautiful Iridescent Material That Could Be Edible
What makes something red, or blue, or green? It’s all in the way light bounces off its surface. Something that…
How Colors Are Discovered
In the early 18th century, German chemist Johann Jacob Diesbach was at work in a laboratory trying to make a red…
Watch the Colors of the Four Seasons Get Recreated with Microscopic Footage
Winter is here and though it hasn’t overstayed its welcome just yet (it will), it’s still no fun to have to wear so…
These Random Objects Are Organized in a Very Colorful Way
There are two types of people in this world. People like Adam Hillman, an artist who sees colorful patterns and…
Mixing Liquids Under a Microscope Creates Wildly Colorful Worlds
Wenting Zhu mixed together paint, alcohol, water, soda, and ink remover in weird combinations, stuck them under a…
Watching the Movement of Colorful Coral Is Really Something Special
Dang. This is some truly gorgeous footage.
How Different Colors Convey Different Emotions in Movies
You may not realize it as you’re watching a movie, but directors are manipulating how you feel by playing with certain…
Can You Paint a Room By Just Blowing Up a Bucket of Paint?
Painting a wall is boring because it takes so much time and requires so much preparation to not get paint everywhere.…
A Melting Glow Stick Is Like the Most Spectacular Candle
I’m not quite sure how the logistics will work out but I now know that I don’t want regular candles for my future…
What It's Like to Look Straight into a Rainbow
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but there are some colorful visuals you can trip out on if you can…
Lose Yourself in the Mixing of Colors and Shapes
We’ve seen the space oddity of mixing colors and paint together before. What makes this one especially fun to watch is…
Bedroom Redecorating Just Got Easier Because Bed Bugs Have Color Preferences
People who live in bedrooms with color schemes favored by seedy bachelors and Hot Topic-loving teens may have yet…
Seeing Sprinkles Mix Together Is So Much Trippy Fun
The whirlwind of colors comes in waves. The giant mixing bowl takes in all the colors of sprinkles and then starts…
Melting Crayons Gets Pretty Psychedelic
There’s a moment, before all the crayons are melted and before it devolves into some sort of poisonous stew that people…
Mixing Paint Together Is Gorgeously Stimulating
Put paint and oil and milk and soap together and what do you get? A lot of pretty. Thomas Blanchard continues his series
Fun Drone Video Makes It Seem As If Colors Were Flying Through the Sky
It’s flying colors! Paul Trillo’s Chromaticity cleverly choreographed four drones to fly across the sky and leave smoke…
This New Blackest Black Material Is Even Blacker Than What We Thought Was the Blackest Black Material
Surrey NanoSystems is famous for creating Vantablack, a material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 percent of…
These Wackily Colorful Rainbow Bagels Are Breaking My Eyeballs
The rainbow bagel looks like a Willy Wonka creation crossed with used play doh set in a reality that I’m not quite…
Skateboard Tricks Look Even Cooler with Colored Paint Powder Flying Everywhere
Skateboarding is already cool as it is. The counter culture, the youth, the loitering, the tricks, it’s not like you…