Very impressive for a first time sculpture.
ZOHO ARTFORM No. 1 can take any number of natural human poses due to the large number of movable joints paralleling human form built into its structure
[via Neatorama]
Category: Cool
The Ariel Atom
This is some serious VROOM-VROOM!! auto action here. Everything in this car says "I go faster than you can possibly imagine, hands off sparky". It’s got a 1998cc 4 cylinder fuel injected Honda DOHC motor that puts out 220HP of power, weighs in at 456Kg(!), and will do the Kessel Run in way less than 12 parsecs! Seriously, it will do 0-60mph of 2.91 seconds. Based on a minimalistic construction style, the Atom spots a tubular frame and non structural composite body panels. It looks as if it’s not quite done but that’s the beauty of it. As they say, its it doesnt have it, it’s not needed. Without all that extra stuff you get that amazing power to weight ratio that crushes you and your passenger into the seat. I’d say this is just about the perfect car to take on a date. If the price fails to impress her (about $40,000US) then the balls out power will.
[via Neatorama]
DIY Homebrew Gold, the GP2X
Now this is a company that has an eye on the adventuresome consumer. This hand held game platform was released by the Korean company GamePark Holdings a few months ago and caught my attention because if you want you can download the programming development software for it. yep, that’s right. This company expects you pop the covers off and see how it ticks. The unit has a Linux core and runs Mplayer so it likes happy media flavors like OGM, DivX, XviD, JPG, and MP3. Plus you can also find emulators that will run the 8-bit games that the kids like so much today (NES, GB, Sega…). If there was a way to add a hard drive to it this would be the king of hacker toys. Mumm… can you add a thumb drive on the USB 2.0 port? Anyway, if I find one of these I’m going to get it, not because I like Mario Golf and Tetris or that I want to have a photo gallery or even an eBook reader, I want a device that is made by a company that realizes that the people that buy their products aren’t dumb end users. To me a customer shouldn’t be given the idea that the item in their hands has only one single use and if you try to do anything else with it you get a lawyer thrown at your head.
Microflyer Mini RC Airplane
Oh how sweet! And I can afford one too! Only $50! It looks like the BitChar-G of the airplane world has arrived, and none too soon I say!
- 9 inch wing span
- 8.2 inch length
- Weight 1 ounce (29 grams)
- Quiet as a whisper, fly almost anywhere, over 150 ft range
The transmitter gives you throttle and rudder control as well as serves as the charging station for the plane.
Cool Cookie Cutter
Neat! This gets me thinking that there could be a market for a generic puzzle cookie cutter set. Not just the simple four way one seen here but a more complex 9 part cutter. With the duplication of the center row and column you could make your puzzle any size you wanted.
Lego Construction Site
Yow! Tech Drool is right, these are the kits that LEGO should be selling. These are some of the best (more accurate) real world devices rendered in the hackers favorite plastic brick that I have ever seen.
[via TechDrool]
Lego Construction Site – Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark