Since people in Inuvik, Canada, are permanently enshrouded in darkness during winter, Tropicana decided to bring sunshine into their lives by installing 100,000 lumens worth of lights into a large helium balloon and raising it into the sky.
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Entries Tagged as 'clever'
Obscura Cuelight pool table
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, clever, tech, video
I ran across another slick video of the light-interactive pool table, the Obscura Cuelight. We ran a video of the table back in September. The new vid which has resurfaced, shows that they’ve added some new background effects and there’s a glimpse of the remote touchpad used for changing the scenery. Gizmodo pins the table [...]
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D&D room
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, clever, entertainment, odd
A Dungeon Master builds a dungeon for his heated D&D games complete with light dimmer, background music and fog machine. It’s a great theme for a small room of this sort. But somewhere, someone will raise an eyebrow.
Have a look at this great room here.
Hmm. No clock.
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Beer brewing waste will power brewery
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · beer, clever, news
Purpose Energy Inc. in Arlington Vermont, is in the midst of constructing a 2 billion BTU digester adjacent to the The Magic Hat Brewing Co. in South Burlington, Vt., where it will take the remnants of the beer fermentation process and break it down into methane that can power a brewery’s boiler and other systems [...]
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Lava Lamp + centrifuge
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · clever, odd, science, video
Think that increased gravity has an effect on the blobs in a Lava Lamp? Maybe we should think again.
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RoboPlow
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments · clever, tech, video
Looking like a casket on 6 wheels, this feat of artisanship is guaranteed to clean your sidewalks and pockets.
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Metallica figure skating
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · clever, entertainment, humor, sports, video
This is a great fan-made video of a Russian skater that’s way, way, WAY too short.
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Flying hovercraft
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, clever, odd, video
New Zealander Rudy Heeman has been showing off his latest garage invention, a home-built hovercraft which gets airborne at about 43 mph (70 kph). No seatbelt for the lady???
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Future mechanic
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · automotive, clever, odd, tech
BMW toys with the idea of using augmented reality to assist auto techs in servicing vehicles. Nice idea, but probably speculative science fiction right now.
And this from video’s the comment section on YouTube:
What happens if the mechanic goes to take a leak and forgets to remove the goggles?
Approach vertical waste receptacle…
Unfasten concealment material…
Align drain to [...]
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Roger Ebert’s new voice
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, clever, news, tech, video
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, Roger Ebert was left without the ability to eat, drink or speak. But now, a company in Scotland has perfected a speech synthesized voice using samples of Roger’s previous film reviews dialogue. He recently demoed his beta version voice on the Oprah show.
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Napier Deltic engine – almost a rotary
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, automotive, clever, odd, video
The Napier Deltic engines are triangulary shaped power plants with each bay having 3 cylinders, 6 pistons and 3 cranks. Each cylinder has two pistons that approach top-dead-center at the same time. Confusing? Perhaps. But you’ll get a better idea of the concept in this video demonstration:
Wikipedia has more on this engine with a neat [...]
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Motorcycle faucet
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · automotive, clever, humor, odd
Better than a guitar-shaped toilet seat, this motorcycle faucet is guaranteed to set the theme in your water closet. It’s now available for $520 off the regular price of $799.
Order yours from MFX here.
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