If ferrofluid and silly putty had a kid, it would be this, super paramagnetic silicone putty. Watch above as it swallows a magnet. Hit the jump for another video. [via Geekologie] More: Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals (Ferrofluid sculptures)
Guy makes an island… out of plastic bottles, it’s taken 2.5 years and he’s happy with the progress.
For the months of July & August I helped put together “The Big Build – THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE” one of my favorite (living) artists… Theo Kamecke was for many years a film maker of award-winning documentaries whose subjects ranged from astronauts to coal miners, rodeo cowboys to nuclear scientists. He was in mission […]
Grand Central’s multimillion-dollar secrets @ Geek Gestalt – CNET News… When FDR was president in the 1930s, the White House put a simple demand on the owners of Grand Central: protect the secrecy of Roosevelt’s polio. They weren’t being vague: They had a plan, and that involved the construction of a secret, fully functional train […]
World’s largest skateboard! via Laughing Squid. Presenting the World’s Largest Skateboard built by Joe Ciaglia and the team at California Skateparks. The skateboard stands 3 feet 7 1/2 inches tall, 8 feet 8 inches wide and 36 feet 7 inches long and has been certified by the Guinness Book Of World Records as the World’s […]
Cory “I can spell squidgey however I want” Doctorow points us at Nick Turvey’s Venus, currently on display outside the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It’s carved urethane foam, coated in rubber, over a stainless steel skeleton, and yields nauseatingly and/or delightfully to the touch. [via Boing Boing]
Reinventing the wheel – and then some via NOTCOT. In the quest for alternative energy, there’s a source many may have overlooked. Not Narberth resident Bill McHugh, though. He’s been exploring it ever since he built and moved into his Sabine Avenue home 46 years ago. You could call it “squirrel power.â€
