A former Hollywood stunt man now living in the Netherlands launched his greatest project to date Tuesday: a 45-foot replica Viking ship made of millions of wooden ice cream sticks and more than a ton of glue. Link.
These British Berkefeld gravity filters are great. They allow you to perform high-quality water filtration on your counter top using gravity alone. The ceramic filters inside last for years, and need cleaning only every three months or so. They’re pretty easy to operate too — you just pour water in the top half, it the water drips down the bottom half. After a few hours you have gallons of ready-to-drink water. Link.
Here’s Jason Kronenwald’s website- He’s into some old master bubblegum painting! He doesn’t like to chew his own gum, but instead has an army of gum chewers. He has explored a rainbow of gum in all sorts of sizes, flavors, and colors. He painstakingly creates his paintings on plywood using no artificial colors or flavors. (Previous gum art)… [via] Link.
More than one billion people – one sixth of the world’s population – are without access to safe water supply. At any given moment, about half of the world’s poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. The aptly-named LifeStraw is an invention that could become one of the greatest life-savers in history. It is a 25 cm long, 29 mm diameter, plastic pipe filter and purchased singly, costs around US2.00. [via] Link.
Tea Vui Huang introduces a new application for Multimedia Messaging (MMS): bite-size podcasts. An MMS message is a multimedia presentation that encompasses images and audio clips. This innovative new telco software converts Enhanced Podcasts into chapters of MMS messages. The MMS podcasts can then be fetched on demand by the user, or pushed to the user on a subscription basis. Link.
Getting the word out on this…“We strongly support the rescue of the Stanford Radio Telescope Dishes by the Friends of the Bracewell Observatory Association (FBOA) to open up the world of radio astronomy to Stanford’s faculty, students, and community! In light of the number of Stanford faculty and students who have already signed up to use the facility, FBOA’s readiness to provide long-term funding and expert maintenance, and the fact that it carries a $10 million replacement cost, we feel it would be a tragedy for the telescope to be demolished for no compelling reason. We urge you to suspend the planned demolition, and accept FBOA’s offer to fully fund, refurbish, and maintain the observatory”… Link.
Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to make a cannon that can shoot a potato a couple hundred yards? And wouldn’t it be cool to put a motor on a shopping cart and see how fast that sucker can go? And wouldn’t it be really cool to hook up your living room couch to a device that makes it shake whenever there’s an explosion on the TV show you’re watching?…Funny article about MAKE… Link.
