Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
OK, the translation is a bit off… But here you can build a paper display of the Honda Asimo robot. Build it, stick it on your desk at the office and I bet everyone will want to know what it is. (Or just think your weird and keep their distance.)
“TRM press” that delivers twin linking popular information on held event and race. ..cover.. papercraft of ASIMO
Anything is a good excuse for a story about the Z Machine.
Sandia National Labs has accelerated a small plate from zero to 76,000 mph in less than a second.
The speed of the thrust was a new record for Sandia’s Z Machine — sometimes referred to as the fastest gun in the West. Actually the fastest in the world, it is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster than the 30 km/sec that Earth travels through space in its orbit about the sun, 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth’s gravitational field.
The immediate purpose of these very rapid flights is to help understand the extreme conditions found within the interiors of the giant planets Saturn and Jupiter, hasten the achievement of virtually unlimited energy through peacetime atomic fusion, and provide more information about the condition of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without having to explode a nuclear weapon.
The Z Machine Gun Shoots Faster Than the Earth
Something like 2400 ads! Wow! (Yes, that is Bill Shatner!)
Videogames commercials
Oh so cool and nifty! The idea is real simple, just a (or many) flat disk(s) with a gas or a liquid shooting across at a tangent.
A Tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. It was invented and patented by Nikola Tesla on the 21st October 1909 at the Untied States Patent Office from experiments done in England. The patent 1061206 was granted on the 6th May 1913. Although, it is thought that a Tesla first showed a 200 hp 16,000 RPM version on the 10th of July 1906 (on Tesla’s 50th birthday).
Tesla Turbine
Ahh… The simple bliss of a simple toy camera. Photography becomes more of an art form when all you have is fixed focus, one exposure value, and a cheap hunk of plastic to view the world through. It is amazing what sort of photos can be created buy using what is basically a hunk of junk.
We hope to inspire you, dear viewer, to become a Plastic Camera devotee as well, so put down that Nikon, shelve those Canons, liquidate that Blad and join us on our quest for the “Image Sublime”. The Search for the Photograph that is more than the sum of its parts. Where photography regains a bit of its Magic and is no longer a mere technical exercise. This is a place where any and all can take photographs that have personal meaning. Whatever that might be. Please enjoy and be sure to jump into our very cool and fun message board where lots of fun and interesting things happen. We live for discussion and feedback. No lie, it’s true.
Toycamera.com started as just two people with an interest in Plastic Cameras. We found these funny little cameras to take odd and compelling images. Over a fairly short time and a few conversations with others who found themselves interested in the Cameras, we found ourselves with a Group. Not a club. Not much of a Gang even. But our numbers grew. And continue to grow.
