The video below was awarded Best Illusion of the Year at this year’s
Vision Sciences Society meeting. I originally saw this posted in
Nature News : In a packed concert hall, Kokichi Sugihara wields a
pickaxe and mimes a blow to the stage. "I am a miner, and I
have a secret," Sugihara sa…
By: kelseymh
Courtesy of Adafruit Industries , comes this awesome steampunk
wheelchair, using their Arduino-based Waveshield for sound
effects. The creator, Daniel Valdez, has a Web site
(http://www.smeeon.com ) with some issues, but he does have photos and
video on Flickr. It is fully functional, using an 18…
By: kelseymh
From the MAKE blog, comes a pass-through of a product available on Amazon. The steering-wheel latch-on table itself is fairly pedestrian (pun intended), but the legalese is just delightful. Read it for yourself at http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/re-make_simple_elegant_handy_steeri.html .
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By: kelseymh
As reported on New Scientist today, the British steam-powered vehicle Inspiration broke the previous land-speed record for steam power, set back in 1906. The fastest of the two runs was 151 mph, set on a dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base.
By: kelseymh
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