Best of the web: How iPhone 5s scans fingerprints, The vocal fry and more

How iPhone 5s scans fingerprints
With Apple’s recently launched iPhone 5s bringing new features to the table, Gizmodo explains the technology behind the smartphone’s fingerprint-scanning biometric sensor.

Bright young inventor
Canadian Ann Makosinski, a 15-year-old, has created a science project that is quite illuminating. Her flashlight functions from the heat produced by the palms of the hand and can last upto 20 minutes. Read about her invention on Mashable.

The vocal fry
Why are women reducing their speaking voice to a pitch so low that every vibration in the vocal fold can be heard? Read about this trend that is sweeping across the world, on the Herald Sun.

Ageing time-lapse video
Animators, a photographer and filmmaker Anthony Cerniello show us how time slowly plays a sneaky, underhanded role in  the ageing process in their hypnotic video titled ‘Danielle’. It can be watched on Vimeo.

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