Seven-and-a-half metres across, with 1,000 mirrors, suspended 50 metres in the air from a crane, and illuminated by spotlights from all over the city of Paris during this year’s annual Nuit Blanche arts festival. The work is La Maรยฎtresse de la Tour Eiffel by French conceptual artist Michel de Broin. [via Dude Craft]
Thingiverse user clide made this awesome folding cardstock business card that can be loaded with a “magazine” of 10 US pennies and will shoot them out one at a time under rubber-band power.
Noah Shactman just brought Israeli defense contractor Urban Aeronautics’ AirMule VTOL UAV project to my attention. The photo released by Urban Aeronautics, shown above, purports to show the first successful hovering flight of an AirMule prototype, secured against wandering off by guy-wires. Video would’ve been more persuasive. The design goal of the AirMule project is to produce an unmanned vehicle that can be used to ferry supplies into, or wounder soldiers out of, a hostile, closely-packed urban combat environment. [via Danger Room]
Wait. Strike that! Reverse it! It’s an “anti-mosquito flamethrower.” By one Johannes Vogl. [via Boing Boing]
According to Thingiverse user mappum, who recently published an STL version of a similar gizmo these beautiful do-nothings are printed to test commercial rapid prototyping machines.
Artist, traveller, & inventor Joost Conijn spent the better part of a year building his own very custom automobile – almost entirely from wood. And what more fitting way to power such a vehicle, than with an onboard wood-burning stove! You might assume such a novel machine wasn’t intended for any lengthy excursions, but in […]
Supposedly from the personal wunderkammer of Austinite video game bazillionaire Richard Garriott. Some of the other items are NSFW. [via Propnomicon]
