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Entries Tagged as 'odd'

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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Can a tornado be beautiful?

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, odd, video

For all of here in the Midwest, the tornado season will soon be upon us. As scary as they it be, a tornado does hold a certain fascination, such as in the video below.

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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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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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Building the Trabant

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · automotive, humor, odd, video

This interesting film shows some final “quality control” steps on the Trabant assembly line. The Trabant was a car produced in East Germany during the Soviet era and ceased production after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Wikipedia has the history of the Trabant here.

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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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Yellow bucket car

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, automotive, odd

Found this on a Russian website. Pictures of a roadster-like car shaped like a bucket complete with handle, powered by a radial engine. If this is Photoshop or Illustrator, it’s a damn good job.

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Paris in black and gold

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · babe, beer, odd, video

Paris Hilton does an ad for Brazilian Devassa beer. I must say that she looks absolutely stunning in this video. But all in all, true to the Paris Hilton mystique, nothing in the ad holds any logic.

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North Korean traffic cop

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · humor, odd, video

They do things with snap north of the DMZ. Here this lady cop combines a little military polish and robot moves in order to keep traffic flowing smoothly.

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Pegging the dyno

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · amazing, automotive, odd, video

Turbo Mustang shows the dynamometer who’s boss.

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