Amateur Inventor Showcases Homemade Submarine
Tao Xiangli, a 34-year-old amateur inventor from China, spent two years building a fully-functional homemade submarine. Tao is not the first person to build a homemade submarine, but that doesn’t make his achievement any less impressive. Especially since he did it using oil barrels and tools purchased from a second-hand market. After two years of […]
Mint Hard – The Ice-Cream Hard-Disk
Mint Pass, a Korean tech company, revealed one of the craziest hard-disk concepts I’ve ever seen. Named Mint-Hard, their new gadget will be shaped like an ice-cream and will be used as an external hard-drive. Users will be able to stock data on the ice-cream part of the device, while the stick is actually a […]
Seabreacher – The Dolphin Submarine
Designed by the people at Innerspace, The Seabreacher is a luxury, two-person submarine that looks and acts like a dolphin. To tell you the truth, when I first saw photos of the Seabreacher, it reminded me of that super submarine Lucas piloted on Seaquest. Tou remember Seaquest, right? I loved that show. The Seabreacher was […]
Making Ice-Cream Flavored Clouds
The Cloud Project has found the perfect way to get people more involved in the burning issues like cloud seeding and nanotechnology. Normally, most people would be less than interested to discuss such problems, but when ice-cream is involved, they become a lot more communicative. Using an old ice-cream truck with an industrial water-spray mounted […]
Soccer Robots Compete in RoboCup 2009
The smartest autonomous robots in the world prepare for one of the most important robot competitions in the world, the World Cup of RoboCup. Brilliant minds from all round the globe build soccer-playing-robots and compete in the RoboCup, to promote the development of artificial intelligence. This year, the weekend-long contest was held in the Austrian […]
Kobian- The Emotional Robot Nurse
Developed by scientists from Waseda University, Kobian can show emotions, perform tasks and is could be the nurse of tomorrow. Kobian can express seven human emotions using his entire body. To show happiness this amazing humanoid opens his mouth and eyes wide and raises his arms. When it is sad, Kobian closes its eyelids, bends […]
Kick-ass Log Computer Case
I’m a big fan of crazy pc-case mods, and this log computer case has to be one of the most original I’ve ever seen. Though it may not be the most environment-friendly pc case out there, the log case is still bad-ass. A crazy modder hollowed a log, made some slots for the pc components […]
Tokyo’s Real-Life Gundam at Night
We’ve already posted some photos of the completed life-size RX78 Gundam, during the day, now we though you might enjoy seeing it in action at night. Just like the Japanese said, the real-life Gundam in Odaiba’s Shiokaze Park has lights radiating from various body-parts, which make it look way much cooler when the sun sets. […]
Three – The Netbook Robot
Designed by the guys at RoBe: Do Robotics, Three is the third software-ready autonomous computer to hit the market. What’s great about this simple-looking robot is it allows you to use any netbook as its brain. Just place it on Three’s alluminum mount, connect it via USB and you’ve got yourself a controllable robot that […]
iShoes – Walking is Obsolete
One more step towards turning ourselves into regular vegetables, the iShoes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for progress, but some of these ingenious inventions are misunderstood by users and end up “helping” us in a very bad way, if you know what I mean. For example, these motorized shoes could make walking obsolete if […]
Google Streetview in Real Life
make your photos look like they’re from Google Streetview with just a little tape, cardboard and acrylic. That’s how these Japanese dudes did it and it looks kick-ass. Those of you familiar with Streetview will see the photos these boys made look just like the real thing. Head over to the original source if you […]