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Jet Pack Guy Crosses English Channel
Jet Pack Guy Crosses English Channel I really want a jet pack. |
Sep 26, 2008 |
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The Amazon Kindle Killer: Plastic Logic Reader Looks Like Kindle Killer
a simple, ultra-sleek full-page 8.5-inch by 11-inch electronic book and newspaper reader with a flexible plastic touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to read regular Office documents without conversion of any kind. As we said yesterday, ... |
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Security Camera Defeated by Balloon
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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Horn Subwoofer Takes Up Crazy Man's Entire Basement
From: Retromodo: Horn Subwoofer Takes Up Crazy Man's Entire Basement His subwoofer is his basement. So shut up about your Dolby 7.1 set up. |
Jul 16, 2008 |
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One-man Helicopter
When building a single person flying machine, it is important to ask yourself when in flight, will it look like I am chasing a road-runner? Sadly, the answer to this is yes. He looks like he is chasing a road runner. |
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks
Lego enthusiast Jan Vormann went around the quiet little town of Bocchignano, Italy filling its decrepit walls with lego pieces. Legos: Artist Repairs Walls In Italy With Lego Bricks If it works there, maybe that can rebuild the Colosseum with Lego ... |
Jun 7, 2008 |
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Goodyear Inflatoplane
CIA Airlines: Inflatable Getaway Plane Delivered Upon Request More here I swear the intelligence community went down hill once fedoras went out of style. |
May 21, 2008 |
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75 MPH Bicycle That's Powered by a Jet Engine
Zoom: The 75 MPH Bicycle That's Powered by a Jet Engine I generally approve of anything with a jet engine attached to it. |
May 19, 2008 |
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Flying Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech
As former chess champion Garry Kasparov was giving a speech to unite opposition political forces, a radio-controlled penis flew across the room to some applause and laughter. The fun was ended when a dour-faced man smashed the penis out of the air. ... |
May 19, 2008 |
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Navy to Get Robot Boats to Fight Pirates
Apparently, piracy (real piracy, not the BitTorrented variety) is all the rage off the coast of Somalia. The pirates, who probably don't have peglegs or parrots but I picture them that way anyways, hijack ships and hold them and their equipment for ... |
Nov 1, 2007 |
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Electric Meets Diesel in Opel E-Flex
the Opel E-Flex is a European concept of the Chevy Volt unleaded/electric hybrid. Other than its propensity to drink more wine and go "on holiday," the Opel will use a 1.3lt turbo diesel engine to recharge the car's lithium ion batteries when they run ... |
Sep 8, 2007 |
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Cardboard Helicopter
The CopterBox is a disposable air-drop box, designed to safely drop cargo from a plane. Using parachutes is more expensive, and requires that you go back at some point to pick them up. With this system you can just throw a package out and forget about ... |
Sep 3, 2007 |
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Ghosts Chase Pac Man Across My Chest
Okay, short and sweet. Textile Interfaces designed the jacket, while the Lumalive light-up plate came courtesy of Philips. It's old promo-wear from Philips, but we got hold of one which plays Pac Man. From IFA2007: Ghosts Chase Pac Man Across My ... |
Sep 3, 2007 |
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R2-Beer2
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Aug 17, 2007 |
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Paper Stirling Engine Runs Off Hot Coffee
This papercraft engine only needs to sit on a cup of hot coffee to drive its pistons. No, it's not the precious caffeine that drives the motion, but the Stirling engine design, in which the difference between alternating hot and cold gas pressure is ... |
Aug 17, 2007 |
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Desk Made Entirely Out of LEGO
Approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks were used. Modular furniture at its best. |
Aug 9, 2007 |
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M.C. Escher's Waterfall in LEGO
From Impossible: M.C. Escher's Waterfall Now in a 3D Sculpture and LEGO, Too - Gizmodo Freaky. |
Aug 2, 2007 |
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3rd party iPhone App compiled
After many, many hours of intense work from "Nightwatch," the first independent "Hello World"* application has been compiled and launched on the iPhone. This was made possible using the "ARM/Mach-O Toolchain," Nightwatch's "special project," that he ... |
Jul 22, 2007 |
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Turn Depressing World Affairs Into Coffee
I like coffee. I like RSS. So naturally, I dig Benjamin Brown's News Brews project, which crawls through RSS feeds and takes "the relative frequency at which different coffee-growing regions are mentioned" to determine their respective bean proportion ... |
May 16, 2007 |
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Most Terrifying Showerhead Ever
It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the shower again. |
May 16, 2007 |