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Polish Lego builder Paul “Sarial” Kmiec built this fantastic robotic arm using Technic Power Functions elements combined with an external pneumatic compressor! Just another weekend build – this is basically a late realization of an idea I had back when I was a kid. The goal was to build a model of an entire human […]
The second graphic explains the physics behind what Boing-Boinger Jimmy Guterman has described as “the greatest scene ever in the greatest movie of all time,” viz. the destruction of a cruising jetliner by the eponymous “Mega Shark” from Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. You may be interested to know, for instance, that Mega Shark’s air attack requires that it break the surface of the water with a velocity of 710 km/hr, which is faster than a bullet train but not quite so fast as a Tomahawk missile.
This 4×9′ boardroom table was created for Ireland’s Boys and Girls advertising agency by fellow Dubliners agbc architects. It is, essentially, a 7-stud thick slab of random Lego bricks topped with a piece of tempered glass. More details and photos are available here. A timelapse video of its construction, (inevitably set to the not-so-soothing sounds of the William Tell Overture), is available on YouTube. [via Dude Craft]
Don Sturrok made this loungy, immerse computer gaming rig out of an Ikea chair, aluminum pipe, and Kee Klamp and Kee Lite fittings from Simplified Building Concepts. Computer Gaming Chair Becomes Reality
According to a piece on GOOD: A New Zealand outfit called Martin Aircraft Company is going to start selling commercial jetpacks for about $75,000. They’re 200-horsepower dual-propeller packs that can “reach heights of up to 2,400 metres and top speeds of 60mph” and don’t require a pilot’s license. Look for pill food and robot butlers […]
La Subterranea is a project that uses a laser to map out underground tunnels. La Subterranea [is] an ongoing research project which takes its name from a tunnel and viaduct system running underneath and through the city of Guanajuato, Mexico. As riverbed, vehicular thoroughfare, and the historical back alley to the city, La Subterranea has […]
To demonstrate the capabilities of the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface, researchers from the project recently hooked their EEG up to a pinball machine, allowing a lucky test subject to play the game using only their mind.
