Everyday art has got to be the best thing in the world. A few of these are a bit on th impractical side (or just down right dangerous). I’d so like to see these sold at Target. People would buy them, I know they would!
Found on Boing Boing
Category: Mad Science
Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University
Texas A&M rocks! Where else can you tour a nuclear reactor? Sounds like just about the only things you don’t get to do it juggle fuel rods and swim in the reactor pool! Texas is looking like a better vacation spot every day…
When operating, the reactor gives off a blue glow known as Cherenkov Radiation.
When an intense radioactive source ejects high-energy charged particles into a transparent material such as water, plastic, or glass, a ghostly bluish glow extending some distance into the medium can be seen. This phenomenon is easily observed when a room containing a swimming pool reactor or a gamma facility is darkened. [Ours is intense enough that our facility does not need darkening to be able to view this phenomenon.]
Nuclear Science Center at Texas A&M University
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength
Simply amazing… All these need are a tiny powersupply that has like a 50KW/1Kg power ratio and your off to the races! Army of power enhanced troops marching into combat in what would amount to a personal tank that can walk up (re-enforced no doubt) stairs and still be humanoid. Starship Troopers meets every power suited anime show.
…The most fully developed prototype, HAL 3, is a motor-driven metal “exoskeleton” that you strap onto your legs to power-assist leg movements. A backpack holds a computer with a wireless network connection, and the batteries are on a belt.
Two control systems interact to help the wearer stand, walk and climb stairs. A “bio-cybernic” system uses bioelectric sensors attached to the skin on the legs to monitor signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles.
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength
(Thank you special agent Greg, there will be somthing extra in this weeks disbursement for this)
Make it Smaller!
I love this guy’s work! This and the Game Girrl site should keep me thinking of new projects for a long time.
The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn
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A Simple How To…
Sure, you might think about how you would go about destroying the entire world, but how many people actualy think it out? Take notes kids, there will be a quiz…
Mission statement
For the purposes of what I hope to be a technically and scientifically accurate document, I will define our goal thus: by any means necessary, to render the Earth into a form in which it may no longer be considered a planet. Such forms include, but are most definitely not limited to: two or more planets; any number of smaller asteroids; a quantum singularity; a dust cloud.
(Thank goodness there is a mission statement!)
Don’t Want to Chuck Your Old PDA…
.. graft it onto your PC!
PalmOrb is software that allows you to use your PalmOS device as a LCD status display for your computer! You can display system stats (such as: CPU load graphs, CPU temperatures, free disk space), news alerts, stock indexes, WinAmp graphs, etc.
PalmOrb works by pretending to be (or emulating) a real LCD; a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 LCD. So you can use existing software that expects a Matrix Orbital display! Here are a few LCD driving programs:
To see what those are check out the link:
PalmOrb: Use your PalmOS PDA as a LCD status display via serial, USB, BlueTooth or IR