Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Would you beleive that this bike folds into this case?
I didn’t think so until I read the site. With this and a backpack you could fly to where you wanted to do your touring, deploy your bike and away you go.Heck, the case can be pulled along behind the bike when your on the road. Amazing!
This will either cure the cancer or give the patients super human abilities. OK, I realize that the radioactive part is an iodine tracer used to see where the venom is going in the body but the idea is cool. In a comic book sort of way.
The study showed that a synthetic version of a protein found in the venom of giant yellow Israeli scorpions targeted tumor cells but did not harm the healthy cells of brain cancer patients.
Look forward to a whole new crop of bad comic book references in the near future:
Other researchers are investigating whether a protein in snake venom can stop bleeding and whether Gila monster venom can treat diabetes. They also have developed a painkiller based on the venom of a deadly sea snail.
That’s right, he has the powers of the deadly sea snail! Yeah, Spiderman is quaking in his boots now.
[via slashdot]
This site brings back some fond memories of trying to get and LED from one end of a screen to another. Hey, it was fun when I was a kid.
[via ektopia]
HANDHELDEN © 660 handheld and tabletop games from the 1970s and 1980s
Medical science never fails to amaze me. This is a good example of just that.
University of Buffalo doctor L.N. "Nick Hopkins" wants to snake a NiTi tipped catheter into your brain. That is, if you happen to have a non-drug responsive, high risk aneurysm. Applying technology that’s been in use all over the rest of the vasculature, cerebral stenting offers a "lets open up that skull of yours"-free option, but still needs some development work…
This is on hell of a cool device. It lets you link up a vector monitor, that’s a TV with X and Y inputs.. Oh wait, you say you don’t have one of those? No problem, you can use a two channel oscilloscope. Huh? You don’t have one of those either? OK, well your a little low on luck, but if you look around I’m sure you can find one. If your truly hard core you could pony up the bucks and buy a classic Vectrex game system. These can be driven by the ZVG. I used to own a Vectrex… Pardon me, I get a little emotional about that. I wish I’d never sold it. Anyway, where was I, oh yeah. The ZVG takes a vector monitor and lets you run vector MAME games on it vie you computer. So you can have the stunning quality of a crisp vector display while you kick some Fuseball ass
[via Retro Thing]
Cool, I’ve been facinated by things like this for quite some time now.
An electro-kinetic sound installation, Tape uses simple analogue playback to allow users an arena in which to play with self-recorded sound and explore the effects of playback and sound synthesis. Housed in a transparent acrylic panel, Tape allows its user not only to view the oft-hidden components needed to record sound, but also to manipulate them as they see fit. Using Tape’s continuous tape loop and assemblage of appropriated and hand built electro-mechanical analogue parts, the user can not only record and play sounds, but physically slide, twist and move these components within the panel to explore their roles and uses.