12 CRAZIEST Screensavers!

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here, with a video inspired by Orange Pumpkin Seven, who asked me to cover cool screen savers.

Now at first, I was like, screen savers? Modern monitors don't even need them. But then I sleuthed around and realized what a great idea it was! There's some amazing stuff out there. And without further ado, let's get started.

First, Sound Stream. This screensaver uses your computer's microphone and responds to noises. Meet Lotsa Ishar; it zooms in on infinite illusion drawings. The zoom never stops, but stare at it for a while and then look at a wall or look at your hand. Pretty trippy, right?

Let's move on to something more utilitarian, like clocks. Word Clock ticks words every second that, when read together, tell you the time. You can also choose the more familiar analog clock. Uniqlo is a clothing label that offers a free screensaver clock that sometimes turns into this sette at home.

As a screensaver, it connects your computer through the internet to a database of data collected from the sky. Your computer and other computers using the screensaver evaluate that data, looking for patterns and signs of extraterrestrial life.

Along the same lines is Electric Sheep. When it begins, your computer communicates with other computers running the same screensaver, and together all the idle computers pool their processing power to produce and render fractal images into impactful movies.

So, what you're looking at is, in a way, a bunch of computers' collective dream. If you prefer evil computers, make it look like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. And even if people don't get the reference, they'll at least think you're just doing super smartypants genius stuff.

Breve Walker is incredible; it makes creatures out of randomly generated shapes with randomly assigned movements. The distance a creature can move is measured, and after the first 25, a genetic algorithm selects the top movers and makes them together to form combo children shapes, just like human reproduction.

Then, the new generation is tested, and among those, the best performers are combined. Three Below is a screensaver that continuously drops Legos to make cool shapes, and while it's up, you can use the arrow keys to position the pieces yourself.

I leave you with some water. Lots of water turns your screen into a puddle, and Rainy Day too soaks your screen like paper so that the color and ink run.

So there you go; that was a dozen screen savers I thought were cool enough I had to share them. Big thanks to Orange Pumpkin 7 for the idea! And if you're a geek and you're looking for tips and tricks on interviewing for awesome geek jobs in technology fields, you should check out what my friends are doing with Dice.com, where they interview people with awesome tech jobs about tips and tricks about interviews.

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