Smoking is bad for you. If you're a smoker, you know that's not something new but sometimes you just can't help it. You gotta smoke when you gotta smoke.
Smokers will always try to find ways to smoke in any weather. The mittens are great for winter but how do you light the cigarette?
I thought it was a joke but I assure you it's real. The iBottleopener is a really cool iPhone case.
I'm going to get me one of them bubble makers.
What's the straight dope on speed reading? Evelyn Wood commercials in the late 70s showed people casually zipping through impressive-looking tomes, apparently having benefited from one of Evy's speed-reading courses. The concept, as I recall it, was that one learned to read not word-by-word but line-by-line and eventually paragraph-by-paragraph. It was claimed that in spite of the breakneck speeds you would "achieve a higher level of comprehension." It all seemed a bit implausible at the time. Anyway, speed reading seemed to disappear until recently, when it was reintroduced on those late night mail order "infomercials." What's the scoop?
If you love animals, watching this might make you feel sick. The actions in the video are completely unnecessary.
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I've seen someone do this when I was in Glasgow. Mesmerizing Stuff
Touchsreen iMacs and MacBooks won't be far away from becoming a reality. The rumor is that it would soon be very real.
Time to save up guys.
Videos like these make me want to go out a buy a seriously cool high speed camera. Slow motion is cool, therefore Philip Heron is cool.
A good demonstration of a miniature effect called tilt-shift. You can make this effect by using some sort of special lens used to photograph architecture or by digital processing.
Amazing Billboard and other outdoor advertising. Simply remarkable.
Amazing Billboard and other outdoor advertising. Simply remarkable.
Duct tape is incredibly useful as an emergency medical remedy. One surprise for me is that it can be used as a wart remover. Apparently it works for a lot of people. If you're looking for the medical uses of duct tape, you can find a lot of them at OctaneCreative.
Looking to stand out at the beach? Check out these really cool beach towels; you can actually buy them.
How the hell do you learn stuff like this?
No camping knife is better than this. There's everything here that a superhero might need.
Nice looking design but it'd troublesome taking off the jacket if you need something from the backpack
Lunartic is a Loughborough University Design and Technology final year project by Luke Douglas.
The aim was to use a hubless wheel to create a compact bicycle, with the benefits of a large wheel and belt drive.
Hubless wheels have appeared in bicycle concepts already, and were first invented by Sbarro. However, few concepts have made it to prototype and when only used for aesthetic purposes, the disadvantage of extra cost out weights the visual gain. Lunartic uses the hubless for a reason; to house the working parts, reducing the wheel base but not sacrificing conventional riding geometry.
Lunartic is supposed to be as compact as possible without folding or being awkward to ride, however there is the potential for the front wheel to fold up into the rear or for that space to be used for a laptop back, motor or dynamo.
This first prototype proves the unique theory behind the design but will require further development before being ready for mass manufacture.
Swedish artist Erik Nordenenkar claims to have created the "biggest drawing in the world" by sending a GPS-equipped plastic briefcase on a squiggly, looping trip around the world, tracing out a 110,664-km (68,763-mile) unbroken line with the help of DHL delivery planes and trucks. The result: A self-portrait of the artist as a megalomaniacal god with a planet-sized Sharpie and a rather nice sense of line.
Problem is, the project is almost certainly faked, despite the footage showing the briefcase disappearing into the cargo hold of a DHL plane and a photo showing a stack of delivery receipts at the end. Why?
- DHL does not deliver to arbitrary latitude-longitude destinations.
- DHL is not likely to consider "trace a few looping lines through the Indian Ocean, without landing" as a valid delivery request, even with lat-long coordinates
- You can’t get a GPS signal inside the aluminum skin of an airliner
- No GPS system, even with supplemental batteries, would have lasted the 55 days the artist says his project took
- Details on the setup’s "extended tracklog and battery time" are suspiciously absent.
So yeah, we’re calling bullshit on this one. Nice picture, though.
UPDATE 5/27/2008: Yep, it’s a fake. The artist has added a line to the bottom of his webpage stating "This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time." And DHL confirmed that Nordenenkar never went any further than a warehouse the company allowed him to film in.
Image above from the artist’s website. Below, the artist’s video.
The Sleep Inducer sounds great but I always take off my watch before going to bed and my body associates having a watch on with being awake. Whether this thing works or not, I don't know.
At press time their website had not yet been updated with this news, but the 2010 James Dyson Award has announced their US National Winner, along with the US Shortlist.
Top prize goes to MIT's SENSEable City Lab for their Copenhagen Wheel design, a sort of smart wheel that attaches to existing bicycles and transforms them into "hybrid electric-bikes with regeneration and real-time sensing capabilities."
Its sleek red hub not only contains a motor, batteries and an internal gear system - helping cyclists overcome hilly terrains and long distances - but also includes environmental and location sensors that provide data for cycling-related mobile applications. Cyclists can use this data to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve their exercise goals or to create new connections with other cyclists. Through sharing their data with friends or their city, they are also contributing to a larger pool of information from which the whole community can benefit.
The wheel looks heavy. It looks good, it sounds great but I don't think I want it.
I don't mind having this on my wall. The artist is willing to build a replica for anyone interested.
Very cool bodypainting art. Didn't notice the women at all when I first saw the picture.
Awesome Samsung 3D projection mapping public display in Amsterdam.
Had the sound off when watching this. By the looks of it, he's Russian or Ukranian or something in between.
