moonbuggy

‘We took an industrial robot, strapped a tennis racket and a sword to it, and put it under the control of a WiiMote. We ran very light pattern recognition on the WiiMote, so it would copy our sword swings.’

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‘Portion control is an important part of staying healthy. This ingenious butter cutter delivers one standard pat with each click of the handle. No more messy butter dish. 5 pats equal 1 tablespoon. Slices, serves, and stores one stick of butter or margarine.’

If I had one I’d cut yo momma’s butter. And she’d love it.

‘Welcome to Wiltshire’s Secret Underground City… the 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 feet beneath Corsham.

Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed to safely house up to 4,000 central Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.

In a former Bath stone quarry the city, code named Burlington, was to be the site of the main Emergency Government War Headquarters – the hub of the Country’s alternative seat of power outside London.’

We had the rocket scooter the other day, and today we have the rocket skateboard.

Fun for the whole family. 🙂

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This remote control plane does a cool trick. It must take a lot of practice to be able to fly it that well..

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This is a pretty crazy home aquarium, but it’s cool.

Lots of places it could leak from, by the looks of things. That would suck.

`Since 2002 Skyacht Aircraft, Inc. has been developing a new type of aircraft called the Personal Blimp. The goal of this work has been to create an aircraft capable of quiet, steerable, sustained, and affordable flight. When the first Personal Blimp, named the Airship Alberto, made its first flight on October 27, 2006, it became the first and only aircraft to meet this seemingly straightforward goal.

The Personal Blimp uses hot air (rather than Helium) for lift and virtually silent electric motors for propulsion. To put it another way: the Personal Blimp is a hot air balloon that can be maneuvered about in nearly perfect quiet. Passengers in a Personal Blimp have a serene experience of flight unavailable in any other type of aircraft.’

This is a blanket specially designed for people who don’t wanna bother getting dressed when friends come over. It actually looks like it works fairly well. 🙂

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This looks like fun. Terrifying fun. 🙂

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Kinda strange and kinda cool at the same time.

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This waterfall works kinda like a bubblejet printer. It drops water in a precisely controlled fashion that allows them to spell words and draw pictures in space.

It’s pretty cool. 🙂

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‘This is a first person perspective of a couple guys riding down one a very cool off road track they built. This must of taken months to build.’

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This is a giant flying-fox that crosses some valley. Would be a lot of fun. 🙂

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This thing is pretty crazy. That’s a long way to fly through the air. 🙂

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This is footage from something called the 19th Cannabis Cup.

A joint as big as your arm. That’s what you need. Crazy hippies. 🙂

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`You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.’

`Possibly the neatest piece of kit we’ve run into at CES so far is a simple keyboard with coloured lights behind it. It is called the Luxeed by a small Korean company named Luxiium.

There are two versions, a semi-transparent key model and a black one with lit letters. They both have the same software, basically a keyboard layout and a color picker. You pick your color, paint the keys, and click apply and it lights that color.’

`A former World War II fort in the North Sea off England, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale.

The Times newspaper reports the tiny Principality of Sealand, which began life as Roughs Tower in 1941, is a 550 square metre steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11 kilometres off the coast of Harwich in eastern England.

It is accessible only by helicopter and boat but according to its owners, who want offers of eight digits or more, boasts uninterrupted sea views, guarantees complete privacy and is a tax haven.’

‘Oh.. Dude..’

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‘Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have a go at converting a Renault Espace into a convertable, then putting it through some tests.’

This is hilarious. 🙂

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`These goats climb the tree to get at the argo nuts used by moroccans to make oil.’

`Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

It’s the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.’

This guy has built a fully automatic Lego factory that builds little Lego things.

Some people have too much time on their hands, but it’s cool none the less. 🙂

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`While 99% of our readers might be scratching their heads wondering why release a product with so much power, George Ali from Ultra can answer that for you. “It’s not so much that we believe personal computers today need as much as 2000W of power,” explains George Ali, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ultra Products. “In fact, most household circuits can’t even provide the AC power this unit would require in order to put out 2000W of DC power. But there’s the always-inevitable questions of ‘Do I have enough power?’ or ‘Does my power supply have enough juice where my high end components need it.’ That is why we have put together this 2000W unit [..]’

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This robot manages to hit baseballs, which is pretty cool.

I wonder how many misses they had to edit out of the video though. [shrug] 🙂

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Then he drives around scaring the crap out of people. 🙂

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`Today, Hacienda Napoles is in ruins, taken over by jungle foliage and bats. The sprawling Spanish-style mansion has been gutted, scavenged by treasure hunters looking for stashes of gold and cash buried under the floors. [Pablo] Escobar is long gone, cut down in a hail of police gunfire.

But the hippos are still here.

[..] Now the original four have multiplied to 16 and, far from starving to death, as some expected, they have learned to forage like cows.’