True Combat Elite

 True Combat Elite

You know, sometimes you just want to kick ass and take names for free. These days finding that all joyful free method to do this is tough. That’s where True Combat Elite enters the pretty picture. It’s a gun toting kick ass first person shooter (FPS) that’s free. Yeah, ya heard me right, free (no, not like beer). It’s built on the popular steel belted free Wolfenstein 3D game engine and features some impressive graphics. Games by gamers, what a concept.
BTW, before the whiny Mac and Linux users start going on about how they get left out of the ultra violence all the time you should know that the game can be downloaded for all the platforms out there (ok, PC, Linux and Macs)
Truth be told I’m a bit of a PC video game virgin so I’m not up on all the latest and greatest in the world of game design (although I hear that F.E.A.R. is pretty good). I’ve always found ‘better’ things to do with my time at the computer than to play games. Well my porn surfing days look to be over because this game looks amazing! I now what I’ll be doing tomorrow, that would be killing stuff! Yearrgh!

TC:Elite – An Enemy Territory Modification

Mechanical Insects

Mechanical InsectsFear the robot uprising? The robot insects are among us already!

Borrowing from both science fiction and science fact, Insect Lab’s customized insects are a celebration of natural and man made function. Specimen’s are presented in either custom made black shadow boxes or glass bell jars, allowing for display anywhere.

[via Brass Goggles

Mike Libby – Insect Lab

CSSoh’s Lego Pneumatics

LEGO pneumatics What do you get when you add air to your LEGOs? No, not crispy LEGOS that don’t go soggy in milk, you get power! This site has all sorts of methods of building motors, valves, and switches that run off from pressurized air and all are made with that classic building material, LEGO. YOu know, it’s not too late to order some for Christmas if you want to mess with them.

CSSoh’s Lego Pneumatics

PXL2000 User Manual

PXL2000 manual A reader posted a comment today on where one might obtain a copy of the users manual for the retro niche video camera of artists, the Fisher-Price PXL2000. Now, if your into the indy avaunt guard art movie scene you know what this is. If not it was a video camera marketed to kid that recorded a cropped blocky black and white image onto a standard audio tape. Wild eh? I’ve owned a few (I did the A/V mod on at least one thank you) and they are a blast to play with. I even removed the IR filter in hopes I could make a night vision scope for playing paintball. Eh, I was young…

PXL2000 User Manual « CLINE&COMPANY

The Rolamite

Rolomite

I think I’ve seen something a bit like these in tape drives and floppy drives, but then again maybe not. A Rolamite is a metal tape and a set of rollers that have some simply fascinating properties, like almost no friction and a natural tendency to store energy. A fine example of a practical use is this letter scale. I wonder if this might have a use in robotics…

[via Boing Boing]

Frictionless Machines from Rollers & Bands – The Rolamite

T-Rex Super Car

T-Rex Car

 

 

Aya-carumba! This is quite the car, er, motorcycle.. Something like that. Looks to be deadly fast whatever it is.

Features a Kawasaki motor with 152 horses as power – just like some sport models on BMW motorcycles
Acceleration performance as good as a Porsche 911 Turbo S
Top speed is 150mph (approximately 225kph)
The 2 seats are adjustable, and so is the foot pedal box

 

[via Coolest Gadgets]

T-Rex