This is one massive street cleaning and grass cutting machine. It’s not exactly new but I am sure that you have never seen it before, otherwise you would still be in your closet, hiding.
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Planetary Resources’ mission is mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are easily accessible.
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Shipping line NYK is working with Finnish and Italian partners to develop this futuristic design, which also uses fixed sails. The aim is to reduce CO2 emissions 69% by 2030, and to eliminate them by 2050.
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Rather than flashing lights these new signal lights from Mercedes having moving kinetic parts. Hard to describe unless you watch the following video.
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The inflatable HandiRack offers all the benefits of a traditional roof rack with none of the disadvantages. It installs in minutes with the included pump, and the universal fit allows it to work with most vehicles. Just pump it up!

HandiRack Product Page on Amazon!

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At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science’s biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows how the mind-boggling idea of a multiverse may hold the answer to the riddle.
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Called the Fest Smart Inversion, is a helium filled geometric band which propels it self by flipping in and out. What would be the purpose of this? It’s just awesome!
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It shoots 50mm steel buzz saw blades, 0.8mm thick, made by PROXXON Germany. A electric motor makes it rotate, before its accelerated on its slide, towards the open end of the crossbow. Runs on 4 Li Ion cells 18650…green 30mW DPSS laser for aiming.
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Magazine covers will now glow on shelves just to attract your attention, powered with wireless electricity. Imagine driving an electric car that recharges its batteries as it’s being driven along the road. It may seem a distant dream but as Dan Simmons reports, the technology that allows electric toothbrushes to charge without wires is being developed to provide power for a whole range of devices.
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Women who do pre-wedding workout or diets sometimes have difficulty shedding those “final” ten or twenty-pounds. A drastic weightloss program called the KE diet – which has been around for years in Europe and promises to help shed up to 20 pounds in 10 days – is now being offered by doctors. KE diet involves replacing eating with feeding off a liquid drip that goes into the body via a nasogastric tube, for up to 10 days. Dieters have the tube inserted into the nose and must carry the drip solution the whole time.
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If you were ever curious as to how much body parts are being sold on the black market here is a general estimate.
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This has to be one of the best experiences one can feel, speed flying and I am seriously thinking of trying this myself one day before my time runs out.
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A demonstration of the 35-foot-wide Airborne Wind Turbine in Limestone, Maine by Altaeros Energies. The prototype was tested up to 350 feet high, produced over twice the power of traditional wind turbines, and was fully automated. The AWT uses a helium-filled, inflatable shell to ascend to higher altitudes where winds are more consistent and over five times stronger than those reached by traditional tower-mounted turbines. The lifting technology is adapted from aerostats, industrial cousins of passenger blimps that for decades have lifted heavy communications and radar equipment into the air for long periods of time. Altaeros is developing its first product to reduce energy costs by up to 65 percent by displacing expensive fuel used to power diesel generators at remote industrial, military, and village sites.
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Could this be the technique Moses used to split the sea? This intriquing experiment that is now going viral on the net has many wonder if it is real or not. This is how its done:
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The Immortality Drive is a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans, such as physicist Stephen Hawking, comedian Stephen Colbert, Playboy model Jo Garcia, game designer Richard Garriot, fantasy authors Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman, Pro Wrestler Matt Morgan, and athlete Lance Armstrong. The intent of the Immortality Drive is to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.
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Once again an object from Japan has got me baffled. I love Japan and its creative inventions even if most of them are quite useless. Now when you go shopping you must not only calculate how much produce your are buying but how large your head is.
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Technology has now created the ultimate USB stick – used by the secret service. If you lose it you can track its location and even remotely scramble content on it. 40$ USD per month for this high tech baby.
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Discover what it takes for construction crews to build a facility in the middle of the south pole.
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An interesting short documentary on tiny homes and people who live in small spaces. People who are inventors of a new movement of tiny homes and apartments.
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Instead of a traditional folding bike, designer/entrepreneur Graham Hill (also founder of treehugger.com) wanted something simpler and cleaner. It doesn’t make a huge difference in space but it helps and the idea is brilliant.
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House of The Rising Sun played on Steve Caton’s and Eric Goodchild’s (me) 7 foot tall Musical Tesla Coils. Let’s take a moment to remember the genius of Tesla.
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The first video game where real cars are used as controllers. The ball is virtual but the controllers are two Smart cars and are very much real driving back and forth. What a genius marketing idea!
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Evacuated Tube Transport is an airless, frictionless, maglev-like form of transportation which is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or airplanes. Six-person capsules travel in the tubes and can reach a maximum speed of 6,500 km/h, and provide 50 times more transportation per kwh. A tube can travel from New York to Beijing in two hours, and make a round-the-world trip in just six hours.
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Unfortunate for the objects but fortunate for your slow motion curiousness. Here comes a series of rather random slow motion experiments.
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The name makes it sound something out of a sci-fi movie but it almost is. The Alter G anti-gravity treadmill helps people get on their feet and have a workout when they wouldn’t be able otherwise due to injury or disability. I love the image of the old chubby lady running like a rabbit on the treadmill as if she was Usain Bolt.
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Almost all power cord winders look and function the same but the RoboReel is one power cord winder on steroids. The RoboReel Cord Reel makes workshops everywhere safer, more efficient and less cluttered.
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Daikin Industries has developed a coating that enables circuit boards to be protected against water and moisture.
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Build by the Gadget Show for Channel 5 in the UK this simulator is probably the best simulator after the USA’s military battlefield simulator that we have not seen on Youtube yet.
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Here is a premier in the USA an ultra-realistic hologram of the rapper Tupac / 2Pac was shown at Coachella 2012. For those who were fans of Tupac this hologram probably gave them chills considering that he died in 1996. Check out the “most advanced holograms” post.
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An interesting look into a potential technology that will enhance a firefighters’ vision by using augmented reality right into his SCBA mask. Much more impressive than the augmented reality for mechanics.
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