Things on our mind
Longer reads from the studio. Mostly big topics like energy, money, and privacy, explained in plain language, plus the occasional product note.
Meet ChartFlow — the stat clip, without the motion-graphics app
Eight seconds of numbers climbing on screen, bars overtaking each other, the point landing harder than any sentence could. It normally costs an afternoon and a subscription. Type your numbers, pick from nine chart types including the bar chart race, export MP4, Shorts or a transparent overlay — free, in your browser, and nothing leaves your device.
Meet ReadFlow — the article video, without the keyframe grind
An article on screen, the camera gliding across it, key phrases lighting up one by one. It's in every news breakdown on YouTube and it usually costs you an afternoon of keyframes. Paste your text, pick the phrases, tap along to your narration, export MP4 or Shorts — free, in your browser, and nothing leaves your device.
Meet GeoFlow — a geometry canvas that moves
Build a triangle, raise its perpendicular bisectors, drop the circumcircle — then grab a corner and drag. Everything follows, live, and the theorem you half-remembered from school suddenly makes sense. Free, in your browser, works offline.
The distant strait that sets the price of your day
The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow sea most Indians will never see — but a huge share of the world's oil and gas passes through it, and India buys almost all of its energy. Here's how a threat to that one strait travels, step by step, into your fuel, your kitchen, your loan, and the money your family earns in the Gulf.
India could grow its fuel in the ocean
The ethanol India blends into every litre of petrol is distilled from thirsty sugarcane and grain. But it doesn't have to be. The same fuel can be brewed from seaweed grown in the sea — no farmland, no freshwater — and Indian scientists have already pulled it off with a salt-tolerant yeast. Here's the idea that could change where our fuel comes from, and why it isn't at the pump yet.
Surveillance pricing: when the price tag is about you, not the product
More and more, the price you see online isn't the product's price — it's your price. Companies are using your data to guess the most you'll pay, then charging exactly that. Here's how it works, and how to make yourself a smaller target.
Meet InkFlow — turn any font into an animated write-on
Type a word, pick a font, and watch it get written on-screen, letter by letter — then download it as a Lottie, video, or GIF and drop it into your project. Free, in-browser, and nothing you type ever leaves your device.