Friday, May 4, 2012
This is what Space Mountain looks like with the lights on
Space Mountain, the indoor roller coaster is one of the most popular rides in the Magic Kingdom.
Jetman flies over Rio
Swiss former fighter pilot and inventor Yves Rossy took to the skies over Rio de Janeiro Brazil Wednesday using his kevlar winged jet pack. Superman eat your heart out.
Claude the 15 pound Tasmanian King crab
Claude was caught (you guessed it) off the coast of Tasmania and sold to British aquarium, sparing him being made into crab bisque.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Ford of Australia murders cane toad
Cane toads. Without a doubt they are an invasive species that are wreaking havoc on the Australian countryside.
Trailer for Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
What would happen if you put your hand into LHC`s beam
This question has been asked of the people that run the Large Hadron Collider (Oops I almost called it the Large Hardon Collider!) But I bet many of you have never heard of Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski.
On July 13, 1978, Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski was checking some malfunctioning equipment on the then Soviet Union`s largest particle accelerator called the U-70 synchrotron located in Protvino when an accident occurred due to failed safety mechanisms.
Here`s BRAD, the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm
Derek Low is one creative fellow. Everything in his dorm, from the curtains to the lighting and the music, can be controlled from either a wireless remote, an iOS
Super Moon set to rise this weekend
On May 5th 2012 the moon will swing within 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) of our planet, offering skywatchers
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Monster black hole eats a sun
Supermassive black holes are objects millions to billions times the sun's mass that lurk in the hearts of most galaxies.
Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in this WWII inspired commercial
This bit of Apple internal marketing entitled ’1944,’clocks in at almost 9-minutes and was Apple’s in-house takeoff on ’1984,’ the first Macintosh TV ad that caused a sensation during that year’s
Smart cars playing real life game of Pong
What a great bit of marketing this is, using two Smart cars as controllers for a real life game of Pong.
This game dubbed Eball is using laser sensor technology that
To kill a car
There are countless ways to kill a car, be it accidently or intentionally creative minds have been doing it for ages. The Dutch folks in this video chain
Yamaha paper crafts
The official Yamaha motors site has some very nice templates for all you model
makers out there. Whether it`s
NASA captures a nova
This flare-up turned out to be a nova, designated Nova Sagittarii 2012. This is the violent
expulsion of material and radiation from a re-igniting
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
EADS Astrium the business jet sized space plane
EADS Astrium will be offering seats for 200,000 Euros a piece for a
TL1 $18000 portable simulator that you can own
Ariel, the makers of the Ariel Atom sports car and simulator maker Motion Simulation have
joined forces to produce what is likely
Star Wars Old Republic fan film
Man is this ever good! You must watch this Star Wars fan film inspired by the MMO
The Old Republic`s trailer entitled "Hope".
Want another Prometheus behind the scenes? well here you go
OK Ridley I get it, you`re proud of this movie and you and the studios have an agenda
and are pushing it hard. I just hope by the time it comes out we haven`t seen everything worth seeing about this film. That being said here is some more behind the scenes with Ridley Scott and some of the actors from the film, I will say that the sets look amazing and the idea behind this film is grand. I`m really hoping the next featurette won`t be a behind the scenes look at the catering of Prometheus, or an in depth look at the buses and cars used to take the actors to and from their hotels. Don`t ruin this Mr Scott, balls in your court, amaze me.
and are pushing it hard. I just hope by the time it comes out we haven`t seen everything worth seeing about this film. That being said here is some more behind the scenes with Ridley Scott and some of the actors from the film, I will say that the sets look amazing and the idea behind this film is grand. I`m really hoping the next featurette won`t be a behind the scenes look at the catering of Prometheus, or an in depth look at the buses and cars used to take the actors to and from their hotels. Don`t ruin this Mr Scott, balls in your court, amaze me.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Patterned by Nature
A project entitled "Patterned by Nature" is a huge LCD (27.5m) 90 feet long constructed
Robotic silverware wrapper
The Capstone Design class at Georgia Tech as created a robotic
silverware wrapper.
7 screenshots from the new Prometheus trailer
The space jockey secure in this flight suit (oops hope
thats not a spoiler for you) at a control station
Optical illusion: Escher`s waterfall
Watch as water defies gravity and flows up hill! A simple but very effective optical illusion.
Tree saves photographer from rally car
Rally car racing is a very popular spectator sport world wide. Part of the appeal of rally car racing is that as a spectator you can literally get within feet of these speeding cars. As you can see for yourself in the video that sometimes this isn`t a really good idea.....
Sunday, April 29, 2012
New International Prometheus trailer
As always, new footage, new questions, but we do get to a see a bit of one the not so friendly critters, if only for a moment. You also get this feeling that there just might be a hidden agenda some of the characters are following.
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