Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Neat-o-rama is right:
So maybe you can’t quite afford the secret volcano lair on a remote island, but you can still buy this Villain Chair by SUCK UK. Oh, wait a minute – it’s £3600! Villainy had better pay if you wanted to afford this chair!
I’m working on the secret volcano lair. As soon as the neighbors stop yelling at me for building the huge dirt mound on the roof and all the fumes from the baking soda and vinegar I’ll be ready for my chair!
[gazed upon at neat-o-rama]
The military hates to let a cool idea die, the J-UCAS smart drone was supposed to be an un manned areal vehicle that could take out the enemy or jam radar systems. Pretty much it was going to be tasked with trail blazing the way for manned missions into hostile territory. Not an all together bad idea, who likes to be shot at? However, after possible budget considerations, the idea of using this platform as an upgrade to the long range bomber fleet. With China fast becoming a replacement for our cold war adversary this tool may be just the thing we need to maintain balance in the world.
Wow… This will change the face of office warfare for ever.
8 barrels, 64 (+) shot capacity, up to eleven rounds per second continuous fire rate.
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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.
Reminds me of a certain flying camera that I blogged about a while back. Except the part about shooting molten metal at the targets that is…
"The 3-D maneuverability of the Frisbee-UAV [unammned aerial vehicle] will provide revolutionary tactical access and lethality against hostiles hiding in upper story locations and/or defiladed behind obstacles," the company promises. The circular drones will be lanuched "from munitions dispensers or by means of a simple mechanism similar to a shotgun target (skeet) launcher," Triton adds. Once in the air, they’ll be tele-operated by soldiers on the ground. Or, if needed, the fightin’ frisbees will pilot themselves as they hunt for guerrillas. Once they catch up to the baddies, the drones will use a series of armor-piercing explosives, shooting jets of molten metal, to eliminate their targets.
Now, if you ask me, Nikola Tesla was not only a genius in the truest definition of the word but also a master of showmanship. With talks about death rays and other fanciful things a car that can run off the power of the ‘aether’ sounds right on the mark. I would not be all that amazed if the ‘black box’ turned out to be a way to attract venture capitol.
In the summer of 1931, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current and the holder of some 1200 other U.S. patents, along with his nephew Peter Savo, installed a box on the front seat of a brand new Pierce-Arrow touring car at the company factory in Buffalo, New York. The box is said to have been 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high. Out of it protruded a 1.8 meter long antenna and two ¼ inch metal rods. Inside the box was reputed to be some dozen vacuum tubes — 70-L-7 type — and other electrical parts. Two wire leads ran from the box to a newly-installed 40 inch long, 30 inch diameter AC motor that replaced the gasoline engine. As the story goes, Tesla inserted the two metal rods and announced confidently, "We now have power" and then proceeded to drive the car for a week, "often at speeds of up to 90 mph." One account says the motor developed 1,800 rpm and got fairly hot when operating, requiring a cooling fan. The "converter" box is said to have generated enough electrical energy to also power the lights in a home.
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Nikola Tesla’s ‘Black Magic’ Touring Car: Tesla’s Free Energy Pierce-Arrow