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Israel’s Newest UZI Sub Machine Gun

My shared feed — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:27:30 +0000

Israel Weapon Industries recently released new video of its UZI PRO SMG. It’s based on the classic UZI design introduced more than 50 years ago, but it’s equipped with modern features and materials. The UZI PRO, released last fall, still fires 9mm ammunition from the closed bolt and uses the same blow-back operating system as the original design. The PRO’s lower receiver, however, is polymer to reduce weight [...]

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Gallery: Flavor Paper, New Releases at ICFF 2012

My shared feed — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:21:16 +0000

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Dali Watch – F*cking Brilliant!

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:22:12 +0000

Dali Watch, seen here.

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Doris Salcedo’s Installations Transform Old Furniture Into Evocative Political Statements

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:04 +0000

Artist Doris Salcedo thought-provoking art transforms reclaimed items of furniture into politically charged sculptural work. In 2003 she took over a derelict spot between two buildings in Istanbul, stacking 1,500 chairs on top of one another that towered over passers-by like a small building. The chairs were piled in disarray, the huge number of items serving as a memorial to the many faceless members of society whose lives, work and even disappearance goes by unnoticed.

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OMA: CCTV headquarters now complete

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:18:59 +0000

finally completed, this reinvention of the typical skyscraper forms a looping tower with a 75 foot cantilever, representing the firm's first major project in china and largest building to date.

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Kodak had weapons-grade uranium

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:18:14 +0000

For three decades, camera company Kodak had a secret deep inside an underground lab in its Rochester, New York research facility: weapons-grade uranium and a californium neutron flux multiplier. (No, not a flux capacitor.) They stored 3.5 pounds of the uranium, apparently not enough to make a nuclear weapon but still not something you'd expect to find in most corporate research labs. The Union of Concerned Scientists are, well, concerned. From CNN:

Kodak turned the material over to the government in 2007, under heavy security. But for more than 30 years, the company had a device called a californium neutron flux multiplier, or CFX, in a specially built labyrinth beneath Building 82 at its labs near Rochester, New York. The device was about the size of a refrigerator. It was not a reactor, but rather a hunk of metal emitting radiation. Its purpose was to create a beam of neutrons to use for scanning and testing other materials. The device's primary source of neutron radiation was the radioactive element californium, but the stream of neutrons produced by the californium was multiplied by passing it through a lattice of highly enriched uranium U-235, whose nuclear fission released additional neutrons.
According to a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Kodak's uranium was highly enriched -- to a level approaching 93.4%. That is the type of weapons-grade material that U.S. government agencies are trying to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on…
Kodak says it never intended to hide the CFX, and it was licensed by both state and federal officials. But the fact that the company was handling highly enriched uranium was never widely publicized.

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Baby minifigs!

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:17:32 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered were baby minifigs come from, Citizen Brick is the answer!

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Gaikai and Nvidia Team Up to Offer GeForce Grid; Cloud Gaming Service

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:16:02 +0000

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The cloud-based gaming scene is about to get yet another contender with Gaikai backed up by Nvidia entering the fray. Gaikai which is the brainchild of gaming maestro David Perry will allow players to play games from either smartphones, tablets, desktop computers or even televisions as long as they are capable of streaming HD video with just a high-speed internet connection on a service called GeForce Grid. If all the talk about this has triggered your memories about Onlive, you wouldn’t be that far off.
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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: GeForce Grid To Accelerate Cloud-Based Gaming Rendering, NVIDIA's Kepler GPU Supports Cloud Environments,

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Best illusions of 2012: Making Brad Pitt look ugly

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:15:30 +0000

See how a finalist in this year's illusion contest can make pretty faces look grotesque

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How Common is your Birthday?

My shared feed — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:26 +0000

How common is your birthday?

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Moonshiners’ cow shoes

My shared feed — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:34:56 +0000

This is one of a pair of cow shoes worn by moonshiners during Prohibition to hide their tracks from prohibition agents. From a 1922 edition of The Evening Independent:

A new method of evading prohibition agents was revealed here today by A.L. Allen, state prohibition enforcement director, who displayed what he called a "cow shoe" as the latest thing front the haunts of moonshiners.

The cow shoe is a strip of metal to which is tacked a wooden block carved to resemble the hoof of a cow, which may be strapped to the human foot. A man shod with a pair of them would leave a trail resembling that of a cow.

The shoe found was picked up near Port Tampa where a still was located some time ago. It will be sent to the prohibition department at Washington. Officers believe the inventor got his idea from a Sherlock Holmes story in which the villain shod his horse with shoes the imprint of which resembled those of a cow's hoof.

I think I saw a woman wearing a pair of these on 6th Ave last week. (via nyer photo booth)

Tags: fashion Prohibition Sherlock Holmes

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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Coding Standard Documentation

My shared feed — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:58:28 +0000

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Stiq Figures, April 30 – May 6: SG-1000 edition

My shared feed — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:49:15 +0000

Welcome to Stiq Figures, where the sales data is after the break and the posts don't matter. Every week, we take a look at, uh, something - meanwhile, the previous week's Japanese hardware sales figures are posted after the jump, and a discussion of said figures takes place in our comments. It may not be conventional, but it's a time-honored Joystiq tradition.

For most of us who've grown up outside of Asia, Sega's history as a gaming hardware manufacturer begins with the Sega Master System, released on North American shores in June of 1986 to the tune of $200. In truth, the Sega Master System was actually the Sega Mark III, which itself was the third iteration of Sega's real first foray into hardware design, the SG-1000.

The SG-1000 (an acronym of "Sega Game" 1000) was released in Japan on July 15, 1983 for ¥15,000, which at the time amounted to $62.48 USD, assuming an average exchange rate of ¥240.06 to the dollar. (Coincidentally, this was the also the day that Nintendo launched the Famicom.) Armed with a blistering
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Instantly Obliterating Data on Magnetic Media thanks to the Data Killer series

My shared feed — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:43:48 +0000

At the Information Security Expo, Platform of Japan presented Data Killer, a device that can erase data instantly. Data on a hard disk is recorded using magnetic alignments. Data Killer obliterates data instantly, by using a strong magnetic field to change all the magnetic alignments to the same direction. “To put it simply, this is a device for wiping out magnetic data. Its strong magnetic field obliterates the data on a hard disk, so you can think of it as a “data crusher.” ...

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Pheromone by Christopher Marley

My shared feed — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:43:17 +0000

We stumbled upon the work of Christopher Marley while at High Point Market this year and we’re sure glad we did. His Pheromone collection incorporates everything from insects, fossils, crystals, and even feathers. For 15 years, he has been collecting and arranging these pieces by hand. Each insect or object is laid out symmetrically and become studies in both color and scale.

Marley agreed to answer some questions about his work and the subject matter that he’s inspired by:

What drew you into the subject matter?

I started out working with insects and my fascination with them grew out of a lifelong phobia of them. Of course, I have now overcome it (with a vengeance!) but I used to travel extensively as a print and runway model and, being quite a nature buff, I was in the jungles every chance I got, usually looking for reptiles. The insects were my bane however. One day in Thailand I decided to face my repulsion head on and carefully observed some beetles. I shortly fell in love with them from a design perspective – so functional, so minimalist, so exquisitely adorned. Soon my phobia switched polarity and I couldn’t get enough of them.

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Defying gravity for new user interfaces

My shared feed — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:36:29 +0000

[Jinha Lee] at the MIT Media Lab created a new interface allowing new ways to modify and play with 3D objects. It’s called ZeroN, and it’s nothing short of a futuristic device straight out of Star Trek.

ZeroN is simply a platform for levitating a small spherical permanent magnet in 3D space. It does this by mounting a hall effect sensor on an electromagnet. The hall sensor measure the strength of the magnetic field of the ball every few milliseconds and keeps the spherical magnet levitated. To move the object in 3D space, a few webcams track the ball over the platform and tell the electromagnet to move on a CNC-like x y table.

[Jinha] showed off a lot of cool stuff that is possible with the ZeroN; ping-pong is by far the coolest implementation, but it’s also possible to use the magnetic sphere to demonstrate n-body gravity or as a camera flying around a digital scene.

It’s a really amazing piece of work with an exceptional demo video. You can check that video out after the break. Thanks, [ferdinand] for sending this one in.

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Train horn attached to bicycle

My shared feed — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:05:40 +0000

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[Video Link] This fellow attached a train horn -- powered by compressed air in a scuba tank -- to his bicycle.

Honk And I'll Kill You: Train Horn Attached To Bicycle

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Whangapoua by Crosson Clarke Carnachan

My shared feed — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:04:07 +0000

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Video: Homemade nine-cylinder radial engine is beautiful, short-lived

My shared feed — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:03:08 +0000

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Russell Sutton is a man after our own heart. The craftsman has spent the last four years building a nine-cylinder radial engine using a smattering of Honda XR600 singles for his airboat. After a little trial and error, Sutton discovered his creation is happier running off of liquid propane gas instead of gasoline. Years of hard work finally paid off when he recently started his monster creation for the first time. The elegant radial fires with a puff of smoke before before settling into a perfect hum. Unfortunately, the success is quickly marred by the sound of mechanical failure.

As it turns out, the cast piston sleeves Sutton used in his creation can't withstand the abuse of the radial. In addition, some of the pistons required shaving in order to work with the different stroke. Unfortunately, the shaving caused the pistons to delaminate their crown, causing further trouble. Despite the issues, Sutton seems to take the failure in stride and plans to correct the issues before firing up the engine one more time. We could all learn a thing or two from his resilience. View full article >>

Look – someone added lightsabers to the goose vs. man video

My shared feed — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:05:44 +0000

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[Video Link] It was funny already, but this takes it over the top.

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Water vs. World

My shared feed — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:27:51 +0000

[Image: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; courtesy of the USGS].

In Charles Fishman's compelling exploration of water on Earth, The Big Thirst, there is the shocking statement that, despite the apparent inexhaustibility of the oceans, "the total water on the surface of Earth (the oceans, the ice caps, the atmospheric water) makes up 0.025 percent of the mass of the planet—25/10,000ths of the stuff of Earth. If the Earth were the size of a Honda Odyssey minivan," he clarifies, "the amount of water on the planet would be in a single, half-liter bottle of Poland Spring in one of the van's thirteen cup holders."

This is rather remarkably communicated by an illustration from the USGS, reproduced above, showing "the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth's water in comparison to the size of the Earth." That's not a lot of water.

Only vaguely related, meanwhile, there is an additional description in Fishman's book worth repeating here.

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10226 Sopwith Camel biplane announced, plus 65-piece mini version [News]

My shared feed — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:57:39 +0000

This past weekend, LEGO announced the new 10226 Sopwith Camel set at AFOLcon in Manchester, UK.

Lots more photos in the photoset on Flickr.

In addition to the large-scale version, LEGO will also be releasing a mini version:

Here’s the full press release:

10226 Sopwith Camel

Ages 14+. 883 pieces.
US $99.99 CA $129.99 DE 89.99 € UK 79.99 £ DK 799DKK

Relive a classic era of aviation history with the Sopwith Camel biplane!

Recreate your very own piece of aviation history with the historic Sopwith Camel. This detailed replica of one of the most recognizable British single-seat biplanes ever to have graced the skies. Features include a realistic rotating propeller and engine cylinders, hinged tail rudder, realistic tension wires, functioning wing ailerons and tail flaps that can be controlled from the cockpit – just like the real plane! The detail doesn’t stop there; this authentic model has over 880 bricks, including dark green, dark tan and metallic silver elements.
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Adding New Surface Texture to Glass to Change Its Properties

My shared feed — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:24:23 +0000

Glass has two key properties, one good, one bad. The good one is that it's transparent, so we don't have to drive around in cars using periscopes to see. The bad one is that it's reflective, which can cause glare and other problems. If you've ever driven around with a white envelope or piece of paper on top of your dashboard, you know how annoying the reflection is.

The reflectivity issue is a problem with solar panels, where a percentage of that precious sunlight they're trying to soak up is uselessly bounced away. In an effort to solve this, a team of MIT researchers have found a way to etch the surface of glass in such a way that it "virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognizable because of its absence of glare." A nice side benefit of this is that water and dust will also not stick to the glass.

What the researchers have done is etched a "nanotexture"—essentially a forest of cones—into the surface of the glass, and the scale of this forest is so tiny that water droplets and dust particles cannot get any purchase. They bounce right off of the surface, as you can see in the video below. It also solves the original goal of preventing glare, as the sharp angle of the cones simply obviates the angles of incidence that a ray of light would bounce off of on a perfectly flat surface.
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Feature: 1859′s "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth

My shared feed — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:02:03 +0000

Noon approached on September 1, 1859, and British astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington was busy with his favorite pastime: tracking sunspots, those huge regions of the star darkened by shifts in its magnetic field. He projected the Sun's image from his viewing device onto a plate of glass stained a "pale straw colour," which gave him a picture of the fiery globe one inch shy of a foot in diameter.

The morning's work went as normal. Carrington patiently counted and charted spots, time-lining changes in their positions with a chronometer. Then he saw something unusual.

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Dripping water turned into a standing wave. Amazing.

My shared feed — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:47:45 +0000

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Boston Rubbernecks

My shared feed — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:06:35 +0000

Times have changed, but people have always loved to gawk at a car crash. The Boston Public Library has hundreds of opportunities to rubberneck wrecks from the 1930s. Some of the most interesting below. Please take note the painful lack of seat belts as displayed on the windshields. Also, check out the work wear on the bystanders. Be safe out there.

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Green Cedar Bus

My shared feed — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:59:36 +0000

by Josiah Williams

My wife, Christy, and I took a 1994 Blue Bird school bus and turned it into a home for us and our little boy.

We spent the summer of 2011 doing most of the conversion. I worked days as a carpenter and put in long nights and weekends on the bus and was rewarded with a comfortable, warm, and unique space for our family, free from rent and mortgage.

We spent the winter months traveling from Georgia to Washington state, spending most of the time around the south-west.

Along our journey we found out that we were pregnant with our second child so, though our time in our new home has been short, we are now in the prossess of selling the bus in order to fund a move to Alaska. We hope to get enough money from the sale to be able to start a life there and begin plans for another small, simple yet beautiful and unique home, this time though on a soil foundation!

More pictures and information at my website… http://deorwoodworking.wordpress.com/green-cedar-pictures/

Contact Josiah via this email: Nemo8484 (at) gmail.com he did not give me a price…

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An Audition For Every Sci-Fi Character [Video]

My shared feed — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:13:08 +0000

PopoutThis guy wants to play every Sci-Fi character ever scripted; check out his home-grown audition tape to see if he’s up to snuff.

Jacob Fleisher has a perchant for Sci-Fi flavored dramatic acting, from his notes on the video:

My audition for every character from every science fiction TV show or Movie that has ever been made, or ever will be made. I am available to star in any upcoming science fiction blockbusters.

After reviewing the tape we can say with confidence: we’d hire him.

[via Geeks Are Sexy]

HTG Explains: Do You Really Need Expensive Cables?
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Dog learns about skunks

My shared feed — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:46:53 +0000

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[Video Link] The YouTube comments are interesting: "Japanese TV station would like to use your video. Please contact.." "Swedish Webb TV-channel would like to use your video." "Please contact me asap. We would like to licence your clip." (Via Arbroath)

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One Blu-ray beams down July 24th

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:44:47 +0000

After a teaser release of three episodes earlier this, CBS Home Entertainment has set a date for the complete first season Star Trek: The Next Generation to arrive on Blu-ray, just in time for its 25th anniversary this year. June 24th the six-disc set hits shelves featuring all of the first season episodes remastered in high definition complete with recomposited special effects and 7.1 DTS-HD surround soundtracks, as well as a slew of special features including new behind the scenes interviews and featurettes on the HD upgrade process. Check after the break for the press release with a list of episodes and features, plus a video preview of what the new effects look like from The Next Level teaser in January. Check Entertainment Weekly for another preview of the upgraded footage, while TheHDRoom has a few still captures from the Blu-ray versions.
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The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:13:50 +0000

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Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009.

(Thank you Karin)

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frog sitting on a bench like a human

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:27:40 +0000

this bullfrog was captured on film just causally hanging out, sitting on a bench minding its own business...

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Report: Morgan 3 Wheeler coming to three dealers in the States

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:27:14 +0000

Filed under: Motorcycle, Specialty, MISC

We knew the Morgan 3 Wheeler was coming to America, we just didn't know when or how. The skinny, according to a report on Inside Line, is that the 3 Wheeler will be sold through three U.S. dealerships beginning later this year. One of those dealers will be Liberty, the Seattle company that got this whole thing started by designing the prototype - Morgan then bought Liberty and used it to develop the production model.

The other two locations haven't been divulged, but one on each coast is the early betting line. We'll probably know after Morgan scion Charles has finished running his 3 Wheeler in next month's Gumball 3000 rally, and by then the company might have settled on an official U.S. price. Even if you do plan to make it yours, though, don't expect on soon: Morgan only plans to make 500 per year, and that exact number was already pre-sold eight months ago.
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Magnet Tack, Set of 3

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:49 +0000

Sometimes it is the simplest innovations that make the biggest impact. Imagine the possibilities for storing your favorite (magnetic) things with these magnet tacks. Don’t worry, they’re strong enough for keys, pens, etc. You’d double the function of any bulletin board, for sure.

From our archives; originally posted Oct 2, 2007.

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Bubble Deck Technology Uses Less Concrete by Filing The Slab With Beach Balls

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:31 +0000

This is a really clever idea that takes out all the stuff in the middle that you don't really need, and replacing it with air.

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Extreme Close-Up: Fading Star Shoots Searchlight Beams

My shared feed — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:25:25 +0000

The Hubble space telescope has taken the most detailed photograph yet of a fading star that’s beaming twin searchlights through its dusty grave.

The Egg Nebula, as astronomers call the object they discovered 37 years ago, is a cocoon of dust and gas illuminated like a lantern by an aging central star.

Slightly larger and hotter than the sun, the star long ago ran out of hydrogen fuel and switched to fusing heavier elements. The change swelled it into a red giant star that ultimately shed most of its outer gases, which are now being blown away by solar winds from the star’s small, remaining core.

The thick shroud of gas and dust make the Egg Nebula faint and extraordinarily difficult for astronomers to see, even though it’s relatively close at roughly 3,000 light-years away from Earth. So NASA and the European Space Agency aimed their space-based Hubble telescope at the object and stared it down.

The new image is an extreme close-up compared to a photo of the Egg Nebula that Hubble took in 2003 (below). That was six years years before spacewalking astronauts installed the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, considered by many to be the telescope’s most technologically advanced instrument.

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Incredible home made miniature engines

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:50:42 +0000

On the heels of a small stirling engine we featured, an astute Hackaday reader sent in a few awesome builds from HMEM, the home model engine machinist forum.

First up is a fantastic looking stirling engine made entirely from scratch. The build is modeled on a Moriya Hot Air Fan, but instead of making a fan spin around, [IronHorse] put a flywheel on the engine. It also uses propane instead of an alcohol or other liquid fuel lamp for the heat source.

Next up is a pee-wee sized V8 engine by [stevehuckss396]. Unlike the model engines we’re used to, this one runs on gasoline. The engine started out as a 3 x 3 x 5 inch block of aluminum. This thread goes on an amazing 85 (!) pages and makes for great afternoon reading, but here’s a video of the engine in action.

Last is [keith5700]‘s amazing 1/4 scale V8. Not only is this [keith]‘s first project, he also completed this entire project on manual mills and lathes. There’s an electric starter thrown in there, and the pictures are simply incredible.

Thanks to [Norberto] for sending this one in,
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Bunk & Loft Bed Inspiration from Billi-Bolli

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:19:54 +0000

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Primer available in full-length on YouTube

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:13:58 +0000

Primer is one of my favorite films of the past ten years and is available on YouTube in its entirety.

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Hilti PX-10 Transpointer

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:09:52 +0000

This tool is under-marketed, over-priced, and difficult to find, but once you've used it, you won't want to be without one. It solves a problem that nothing else on the market solves: making a drilled hole come out at the right place on the other side of a wall, and I mean a wall where getting to the other side requires a hike.

The PX-10 consists of two handheld units: a transmitter and a receiver. You put the transmitter on one side of the wall, then take the receiver to the other side. The receiver has four illuminated arrows that tell you which way to move it; when all four are lit, it's exactly lined up with the transmitter. There's even a hole in the center so you can make a pencil mark. It's also got a readout the tells you the wall thickness.

The manufacturer says the PX-10 works on walls from 5cm to 1.35m (>4 ft) thick, with a positioning accuracy of +/- 2mm per 200mm of wall thickness.

I bought mine in 2008 while working on a historic masonry building. To run a cable, we needed a hole through an exterior wall 14" thick, starting in an interior closet and exiting in a mortar joint, not in the adjacent brick. To get from one side to the other, you navigated a warren of interior hallways, descended two flights of stairs, and climbed up several levels of scaffolding. A single measurement with the Transpointer showed us where to drill... and the hole came out spot-on!

I've also used the PX-10 when installing thru-hull fittings in boats, otherwise a slow, nerve-wracking job (especially near the waterline). It works well for me, even when the hull is thinner than the nominal 5" minimum range. If you're working alone, the transmitter is light enough to stick onto a surface with adhesive putty, which comes with it.

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Infinite Spock

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:09:33 +0000

It's viewscreens all the way down. (via george takei)
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ADAPTRAC changes mountain bikes’ tire pressure on the fly

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:09:11 +0000

Like a lot of other factors involved in mountain biking, setting the air pressure of the tires is a matter of compromise. Keep them too soft, and you can’t go as fast as you’d like on smooth stretches of the trail – keep them too hard, and they’ll just bounce off of roots and rocks instead of gripping them. As it stands, most bikers go for a “Jack of all trades, master of none” setting, that allows for some traction and some speed. The folks at ADAPTRAC, however, apparently think that such a compromise shouldn’t have to be made. Their new system allows riders to inflate or deflate their tires as conditions dictate, while they’re riding... Continue Reading ADAPTRAC changes mountain bikes' tire pressure on the fly

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Tags: Compressed Air, Cycling, mountain bike, Tires, Traction

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High performance open-source 24bit USB DAC released

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:08:11 +0000

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Nissan Deltawing development on track for Le Mans

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:07:26 +0000

Gizmag is essentially about new thought - new and better ways of doing things. Hence the DeltaWing Project which we detailed previously, is of greater fascination than most current auto racing projects because the 1.6-liter Nissan DIG-T turbo-powered car is hugely innovative. Racetrack testing is well underway and the car recently had its first serious outing in the wet at the U.K.'s Snetterton circuit... Continue Reading Nissan Deltawing development on track for Le Mans

Section: Automotive

Tags: DeltaWing, Le Mans, Michelin, Nissan

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The Talking Domino’s Pizza Scooter

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:06:51 +0000

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The famous pizza brand Domino’s which is getting less and less association with the actual game around which the name revolves, seems to have become a name synonymous with pizza along with the more literal Pizza Hut. Now, it looks like the folks behind the pizza at Netherlands have come up with an innovative way of not only spreading the brand name around but also inducing laughter everywhere its delivery people are. The hilarious video embedded above serves as a lesson for several large companies that maybe it is not essential to spend millions of dollars on advertising because all you would have to do is modify a delivery scooter to shout your brand name whenever the gear shifts.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Mood Based Audio Ads by Moodagent and Mixberry Media, Tokyo train station ad has eyes that follow you,
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Brammo’s 100MPH Empulse coming May 8th, spooks electrons with six-speed gearbox

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:06:28 +0000

By rights, Brammo's street-fighting Empulse should have gotten here quicker, but at least we now have a firm launch date. Sporting an all-new six-speed gearbox in place of the one-speed original, Brammo's spec sheet shows a 121-mile city range (or 56 miles on the highway), 100+ MPH maximum hustle and a re-juicing time of 3.5 hours in fast-charge mode. We're not sure if the price has budged from the original $14,000 estimate, but if you want to see what that ballpark sum might get you, the video after the break is all yours.
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New Picture Book Darth Vader and Son is Melting Our Dark Sith Heart (Excerpt)

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:31 +0000

Awwwww. The above image is a page from artist Jeffrey Brown’s new picture book Darth Vader and Son, newly out from Chronicle Books. The book imagines a universe where Darth Vader actually gets to raise his son Luke and it is so disarmingly charming that you really stop caring that this is an evil Sith lord. Oh, Obi-Wan, why did you spirit those children away?
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Borghese Sofa by Noé Duchaufour Lawrance for La Chance

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:09 +0000

Noé Duchaufour Lawrance has designed the Borghese sofa for French company La Chance.

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anagram architects: SAHRDC

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:04:35 +0000

separating the site from the bustling street activity, an exterior masonry wall formed with a repeated cubic module of six bricks integrates daylight and ventilation through openings created by the rotated components.

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Modern First Aid Kit

My shared feed — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:04:21 +0000

Be safe and prepared, but also stylish with this modern first aid box designed by Ulf Thomas Solbach. It comes in two versions suitable for both home and office.

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© 2012 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime in Home Furnishings, Interior Design, Style & Fashion | View full article >>