‘Tech Dorm Gone Wild‘ WSJ’s Andy Jordan hangs out at a dorm at MIT, which houses a coterie of fidgeting student-technologists with a penchant for tinkering, and an eye for changing the world” – if the video doesn’t play, visit the site…
Highway to the danger zone… replica fighter jet that travels at 5mph – Telegraph… Measuring seven metres in length and four metres in width the £4,000 F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet has been built at a scale of 1:2. Resembling Tom Cruise’s jet out of Top Gun, it took 3,500 hours to construct the model. […]
Matthias Wandel’s wasp sucking machine… He writes – This machine was the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy! Growing up in the country, wasps nests and the possibility of getting stung were a frequent nuisance. I have no sympathy for yellow jackets that do not produce honey, and sting! In the summer of 1996, opportunity presented […]
KriÅ¡tof Kintera likes to make people nervous… He installs spinning circular saws in gallery floors, and rigs the plug at the end of an electric cord to release 50,000 volts in short bursts. Artworks that, just like your neighbor’s homemade flamethrower, scream “Stay away, don’t touch!” and then, after the initial jolt of fear, turn […]
The funnel wall at the Kunsthofpassage in Neustadt plays music when it rains… via NOTCOT.
This fellow in Blaine WA spent 20 years making a bomb shelter under his house (which is now for sale…) The Underground Fortress is an 8th wonder of the world! It is an unbelievable feat of engineering. The Fortress goes a total of 45 feet under the house! That is below sea level! The fortress […]
Gorgeous.
