This guy has apparently watched Megaforce too many times for his own good…
As cool as that looks, I can’t help but think that a bike-mounted minigun like the one at the end of the Machete faux trailer would be much more useful/intimidating....
Visual artist Román Cortés has taken the classic painting Las Meninas and, using only standard HTML and CSS (no Flash or Javascript at all), has created an INCREDIBLY amazing 3D effect. Click on the link to check it out!
(And thanks to Shane Thacker for the great find!)...
Woe be the person who doesn’t have some spare change for the Dark Lord of the Sith…
Don’t worry. It’s just the fine folks of the 501st Legion doing what they do best: using their love of the Star Wars saga to do good in the community. In this case it’s volunteering to ring the bell for those Salvation Army red kettles in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Somewhere, Jim Henson and Freddie Mercury are smiling and laughing their heads off…
This is about the most crazy awesome astonishing thing that I have seen all month…
Folks, that is NOT from a BioShock video game! Harrison Krix out of Atlanta built that unbelievably sweet Big Daddy costume, then contacted reps with the Georgia Aquarium and got some time scheduled there for a photoshoot. With Harrison in his Big Daddy gear and his fiancée in decrepit dress and scary makeup as a Little Sister, they brought Rapture to life amid real sharks and jellyfish.
Click here for MANY more images of Harrison Krix’s BioShock session at the Georgia Aquarium, including some that Harrison has made wallpaper size for your desktop (and they will certainly be made useful, of that there is no doubt 🙂...
Want to seriously protect yourself and your loved ones against flying debris, bullets and bombs? Consider covering your living room in X-Flex wallpaper. Developed by Berry Plastics in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the X-Flex Blast Protection System is touted as wallpaper that will stop a wrecking ball and worse with a single sheet of the stuff. X-Flex is two sheets of polymer wrap with a Kevlar-like material sandwiched in between. It’s self-adhesive and covering an average-sized room takes less than an hour. Berry Plastics obviously had the military most in mind for employment of their product, but the company is already seeing a market for X-Flex in buildings constructed in areas prone to tornadoes and hurricanes.
I’m wondering how ‘spensive this stuff is. X-Flex probably has a hideous price tag. But if nothing else I could see papering your bathroom with it and hunkering down ...
Using software he developed and about $10 of standard off-the-shelf parts, a solid-thinkin’ dude named Aydogan Ozcan has converted camera-equipped cellphones into rather powerful microscopes.
When set up with the package, a cellphone like the Samsung model in the photo can image blood cells and bacteria. The phones can then send the data over a wireless network or be connected via USB to laptop computers. The potential for such devices are vast, considering that a doctor equipped with such a cellphone could diagnose malaria or other illnesses in very remote locations. What’s particularly interesting from a technical perspective is that Ozcan’s ‘scope does NOT use lenses for magnification at all! It achieves microscopy by using the phone’s camera to measure the scattering/interference pattern from light-emitting diodes shining on the sample. In other words, the package creates a magnified hologram of the sample being studied.
Very, very cool. Aydogan Ozcan ...
Being into knifemaking I’d read about this before: how back in the old days blacksmiths would have “anvil shootings”. There are conflicting stories about why the practice originated. Some say that it began when Union soldiers invading the South during the Civil War would try to destroy every anvil they found so as to break the Confederacy’s ability to make weapons and other tools. Others hold, with some evidence backing them up, that there was a much more mundane purpose behind anvil shooting: that blacksmiths simply found it the quickest way to “clean up” an anvil after long periods of use.
However it started, there’s no doubt that it was spectacular enough of a sight that for many years it became a favorite way to celebrate festive events throughout America, such as victory in war. But then with the increase of modern industry, anvil shooting began to decline.
And today, ...
Check out what David Smith of New Jersey has made: a scale model of a scale model train set (for his real model train set’s layout). And the thing actually runs too!
Behold…
It’s 35,200 times smaller than an actual train.
Now that is some practical nanotechnology! 🙂...
Sometimes, the headlines simply demand to write themselves.
Crash here for the tale of Daniel East, his sister Tevyn, and how they inadvertently brought Tricky through a harrowing eight-hour scenic tour of the desert wasteland of Utah and Nevada.
Tricky not only lived, but he suffered just a few minor scrapes on his paws.
(And methinks Tricky should sign an endorsement deal with ACME while that iron is still hot.)...