Do you know what we are going to do while we are not playing with the Lego Death Star, waiting for the laser-etching machiine to tattoo one your gadgets for free and listening to our original Sony Walkman? I mean, apart from unsuccessfully calling for pizza in the Apple phone prototype while watching Frucci doing skits dressed up like a Japanese USB dork, previously recorded on the Red One and played back in the Panasonic 103-inch screen Dodging the amazing Draganflyer X6, that's what. The Draganflyer X6 is not your usual flying toy. In fact, it's not a toy, but...
[YouTube - Link] That’s right ladies and gentlemen! You too can own a mini helicopter/UFO and launch it into the air and make the people in your neighbourhood think they are seeing a real UFO flying above! Great for late night pranks and making people think that the Grays are about to land! Scare your friends, family, and the conspiracy nut next door!...
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Just look at that bridge. I was almost tempted to call it Photoshopped, but then I remembered I'm not a stupid idiot. The Siduhe Grand Bridge has been in construction for over 4 years and stands 2,132 feet above the ground below. Holy shit! One of the initial problems with building the bridge was how to get the 3,200ft long cables across the valley. The answer? Attach them to rockets and blast them across. so you've erected the enormous towers on each side of the deep valley, deeper than any valley previously bridged. how do you get a pilot...
How do you get your cables from one side of the bridge to another when your suspension bridge will be 560 meters above the river? The Siduhe Grand Bridge in China is nearing completion after four years of construction. previous solutions have included: attaching the cable to a kite and flying it over (e.g. niagara falls suspension bridge), carrying one end by helicopter (e.g. akashi kaikyo bridge) and floating one end on a boat (e.g. brooklyn bridge). the brains behind the siduhe bridge decided to ignore all those options and break another record instead. they attached the 3200ft cables...
At $40,000, this Helicopter FLIR Thermal Imaging System/Infrared Imager may seem a little bit expensive, but when the eBay sellers tells you that "these units are just off a fleet-wide upgrade by a major federal government agency", the prospect of adding it to your home-made cardboard helicopter or drug-smuggling vehicle looks better and better by the second. Don't think this is your usual night vision system, however. A FLIR is much more advanced than that. Whereas your typical night vision system operates in the visible light and near infrared ranges (0.4 to 1.0 micrometres), a forward looking infrared (FLIR) is...
Several wildfires raged throughout Southern California this weekend, in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, burning some 35,000 acres (55 sq mi) and destroying around 1,000 homes as California's Fire Season extends toward becoming a year-round condition. Dry Santa Ana winds of up to 70 mph drove flames and embers across valleys and into neighborhoods, in some cases burning only a few homes, in others, wiping out entire communities. Most of the fires are contained now - the causes still under investigation. Fortunately, few injuries and no deaths have been reported, as some 50,000 evacuees begin returning to their homes to...
By Jerry Del CollianoYesterday I mentioned that I'd share with you the radio promotion that costs next to nothing to do and offers the one thing listeners want most -- next to, say -- free money.When you walk in and tell the general manager you want to do it, he or she won't kick you out because the station doesn't have to spend anything on it and yet it will receive all the dividends.If you are the manager, and your PD walks in and says let's give it a go, you won't get fired by corporate. I promise.I must confess...
They killed the electric car—they is no one in particular—but damn it if we’re not gonna see a flying car before this planet’s best and brightest found a space colony on the moon. Yes, Darpa, which brought you all of the Internets, has developed Personal Air Vehicle Technology, or PAVT (or A Ceca Persevering Holly Hot Loin, in anagram form). It’s part car, part helicopter. One minute it’s driving along, minding its own business, the next it’s flying, majestically, no doubt, in the air like so many flocks of seagulls. Seagulls powered by petrol. The vehicle is designed to...
