Category: Cool

Moo Cards: Mini Custom Cards From Your Flickr Photos

Moo cards from FlickrHow cool, tiny name cards that feature your favorite Flickr images! If your the owner of a pro Flickr account you can have a free sampler pack of 10 shipped for you, you guessed it, free! These would be great as gift tags too, just stick a ‘To:’ and ‘From:’ line on the back and your set. I can’t wait to see what other people end up using these for. I should get mine in about a week. I’ll have to make it a point to shoot some photos specifically for these cards on my next trip.
For more printing ideas go have a look at the Qoop page. I’m betting that if the mini cards are as popular as I think there going to be, Moo will be branching out to the other popular photo sharing networks as well. I can only hope.

[via Boing Boing]

Moo Cards: Stunning kid-sized custom biz-cards with Flickr pix

A Hobbit Hole Of Your Very Own

Have a bit of land? Want a place to get away from it all? Like the works of Tolkien a little too much? With a little work, some simple tools (chainsaw, hammer, chisel) and some friends to the heavy lifting, you can make your very own Hobbit hole. Looks like a fun project if you have the space. The straw bale construction technique works very well for many buildings. Makes great insulation too. I’d be quite happy in one, as long as it had some plumbing and power.

[via neat-o-rama]

A Low Impact Woodland Home

Fossett Sets Glider Record

Fossett sets glider record Wearing NASA spacesuits and flying along the crest of the Andes, pilot Steve Fossett and co-pilot Einar Enevoldson took their ‘Perlan’ high performance research glider on the world’s first stratrospheric glider flight yesterday – surfing the Andean ‘mountain wave’ to a height of 50,699 feet (15,453 m) – while breaking the previous record by 1,662 ft (507m)

 

That’s an astounding record to have broken, most comercial airliners cruse in around 33,000 feet and they have thrust. The glider had but the heat from the ground to give it energy to make it up so high. In fact…

During the course of the flight (primarily within a 60 mile radius of El Calafate near the border of Argentina and Chile), the American pair found themselves flying well above commercial air traffic – a fact received with bemusement by pilots of passenger jets under the same air traffic control. Steve Fossett recalled: “I couldn’t understand the Chilean controller describing us in Spanish to the airline pilot – but I understood the answer by the pilot: ‘Wow’.”

Wow is right! If you were asked to choose a role model Steve Fossett would be a good choice. For more info on this amazing man take a look at his write up on Wikipedia.

[via Flight Nest]

New world glider altitude record set by Fossett and Enevoldson in Argentina

C M Automata

Hermes

The husband and wife team of Peter Meder and Chris Chomick who these fanciful sculptures and automata are masters of their art. After starting out in the special effects business they found their calling as artists. These one of a kind creations use everything from common R/C servos to hand cranks to give life to their creations. This kind of work simply amazes me.

Chomick Meder : Figurative Art and Automata