Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I was looking around for pinhole cameras and came up with this. It’s got to be the most complex pinhole camera I have ever seen… I stand in awe of this creation… The translation might not be perfect, but you should still be able to understand all of it.
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]
Odd that this has take so long to hit the main stream markets. I received a key fob/ charm like this a few years ago. It was an ad for some consumer grade Nikon camera. I thought it was quite clever, the solar cells on the sides will switch an LCD screen dark about once a second giving the impression that the image under it itself is flashing. The price is fair, $9US each. I want the Doraemon one. 🙂
[via Shiny Shiny]
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]
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.
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.