This looks awesome. It’s an RC flying Millennium Falcon. It costs less than $60 and there’s a pre-order rush. The RC Millennium Falcon has been designed for indoor flight. This means you’re able to terrorise your flatmates, brothers, sisters and fellow gamers. Me? I might put on some suitable music and sweep the Millennium Falcon […]
Airship fish (Airfish?) good for events and spying
This video from the New Scientist shows a new type of airship that’s modelled on fish. I keep on wanting to call it an airfish. You see; it navigates by wriggling like a fish. This means it can do without the standard propulsion methods used by other airships and without them it is almost silent. […]
Super awesome lego printer (with disco edit)
In just a few days this video of lego engineering awesomeness is racing towards one million views. Without using any of Lego’s mindstorms technology this geek has created a fully functional lego (and felt tip pen) printer. On YouTube he’s known as ‘horseattack’ a little freaky but also a little funky. As impressed as I […]
Lego cameras
Since I’m off stuck in London on business meetings I think it’s only fair to show off even more impressive lego constructs. Today let’s look at lego cameras. You can buy this largely pink camera for a mere $50 from Digital Blue. Yeah. I mean; pink? Pink? Then there are these two – from, well, […]
Teleportation achieved: quantum teleportation reaches further than 16km
Scientists in China have managed to teleport informaton more than 16km. It’s not the first time entangled photons have bene teleported but the previous limits have been measured in hundreds of metres rather than thousands. Success means we’re so much closer to being able to “beam” information without the need for a traditional signal. In […]
Is this a Pac-man arcade built from Lego? Yes!
The cool things you can do with Lego continue to grow. If you’re willing to discount the electronics (and the little tiny metal feet) then this Pac-man arcade machine is entirely made from Lego. The hero who built it, Big Ben Bricks, aka Ben notes that no Lego bricks were cut to make it. It […]
Takeuchi Taijin’s Olympus PEN viral
Here’s a funky ad – being promoted to geeky and gadget blogs – to promote the new Olympus Pen E-PL1 camera. I’m showing it here because it’s not only stop motion but also because Japanese stop motion animation artist Takeuchi Taijin directed. Rather than using paper or photos for this animation – the team used […]
Genesis biopod. Sleep with the fishes. Underwater coffin.
Designer Jack Hokanson invented this pod in honour of his own father. It’s a coffin. It’s a coffin that’s designed to sit at the bottom of the ocean… and be a mini marine habitat. Within minutes of reaching the bottom of the ocean floor the Genesis biopod begins its transformation from urn to habitat. The […]
Hydrogenase – bio-hydrogen airships of the future
Vincent Callebaut, the Belgian architect, hopes his design of organic seaweed powered bio-hydrogen airships will be in service by 2030. Firstly, don’t they look cool? The large craft are 1,300 feet in height and have housing areas, science labs and entertainment sections. The Hydrogenase are designed to be waterproof, fireproof, able to carry more cargo […]
Apple versus Nintendo – what about the WiiPad?
This isn’t a WiiPad. Yup; there’s an iPad. Yup; there’s a WiiMote. It’s actually a jailbroken iPad being used to run SNES games. In this case the iPad is playing Super Mario World. Straight away, I think, this video illustrates what a threat Apple is to the causal gaming hopes of Nintendo and Sony. All […]
