source CASULO – MOBILE LIVING FURNITURE
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Furniture Design: "Furniture in a Box"
A box with the base area of a euro-pallet, only 90 cm high. Inside: a armoire, a desk incl. container, a height adjustable stool, two more stools, a shelf, a bed with mattress.
source CASULO – MOBILE LIVING FURNITURE
source CASULO – MOBILE LIVING FURNITURE
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Modding: Laptop restyled to Victorian music box
This may look like a Victorian music box, but in this intricately handcrafted wooden case is Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It has a large screen clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather-elbow, and the wireless network card adapted. The machine runs on an antique clock with key winding through a ratchet effect personalized pass made from old pieces of clock.
Source datamancer.net
Friday, February 8, 2008
Time travellers from the future "can appear in the coming weeks"
In the coming weeks, the Earth may be the first time travelers arriving from the future.
Physicists around the world are looking forward to launching the Large Hadron Collider (BAC) at the cost of 4.65 billion pounds - the most powerful particle accelerator in history. As expected, this device will provide new information about the particles and forces operating in space, as well as to reproduce conditions similar to those which took place shortly after the big bang, led universe.
Professor Irina Aref'eva and Doctor of Sciences Igor Volovich behalf of the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow believe that the large-scale experiment in the CERN - European Centre for Particle Physics is located near the Swiss Geneva - could result in a first time machine in the world, said the magazine New Scientist.
Starting Collider, scheduled for early summer, could become a historic landmark because of travel time possible - if at all possible - only to the past, believing from the inception of the first time machine.
Thus, the year 2008 could be a "year zero" travel through time, the scientists argue.
The idea of time travel was born when a colleague of Albert Einstein Kurt Gödel using the theory of relativity proved principled movement in the past.
After his appearance in 1949 hypothesis renowned physicists often tried to refute the idea of this kind because of travel in time undermine the principle of causality and threaten the emergence of paradoxes: the time traveler can return to the past and kill their own grandfather, but then it will turn out that he himself had been unable to appear at the light.
Incidentally, it took 60 years and the fundamental objection, why travelers in time will not be able to leave the historians are not in business, no and no.
According to Russian scientists, which focus on energy BAC subatomnoy particle (in trillion times smaller mosquito), with cloth universe, which scientists call "space-time, strange things can happen - it is able to change the fabric.
Gravity bends low Earth space-time, and the BAC can distort time so that it locks in the ring. This phenomenon of physics called "closed vremenepodobnoy curve" - it allows, in theory at least, back in time.
This scheme has parallels with the theory proposed back in 1988. Then the professor Kip Thorne with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena demonstrated that space-time tunnels - worm - could open the way to travel through time. This theory has become popular because of the Carl Sagan novel "Contact", which was later withdrawn by the film.
Professor and Doctor Aref'eva Wolowicz the view that the worm can create BAC and thus provide travel time. "We realized that vremenepodobnye closed curves and worm may emerge as a result of a collision of particles" - explains Professor Aref'eva.
Nevertheless, prior to the onset of imitators Doctor Who will have to overcome many obstacles. One of them - the fact that, through mini-worm will be able to pass only subatomnym particles.
As the Daily Telegraph correspondent researchers, the idea that subatomic particles journey through time in the BAC could open the door for people-travelers - "deep and interesting question." "And these problems and many others require further study" - stressed academics.
Perhaps, at most, what can we hope - is that the BAC will show signs of the existence of worm wholes, said Dr. Wolowicz. If a portion of energy in a collision BAC disappear, it can be explained by the creation of particles that time pierce through the worm.
One zagvozdok worm wholes in concept - an attempt to find exotic force, capable of supporting them open to travel through time.
Dark energy - antigravitatsionnaya mysterious force that is believed to be operating in the universe - can, in the view of scholars, be exactly that will help you maintain an open worm. At least, so supporters consider one of the interpretations of that phantom energy, as it is called.
If the collision of particles, together with phantom energy would allow this year to create a worm in Geneva, the future of civilization might know about it from the textbooks of history, to calculate the moment and with the help of advanced technology to cause us to visit.
"These observations have not excluded the possibility that phantom energy exists - said Robert Caldwell, a physicist from Dartmaus College in Hanover, New Hampshire. - Regarding speculation Arefevoy Volovicha and that the BAC will create a time machine - walk on them ! "
One of the leading scientists believe that in time travel is possible, Professor David Deutsch of the University of Oxford, said: "This is a hypothetical speculations, but to find fault with them essentially impossible. Nevertheless, I believe that this mechanism will not work for a variety of reasons (ie the way for messages from the future are not open), even if their assumptions are correct. "
Dr. Brian Cox of Manchester University adds: "Energy billion cosmic rays, which fall into the Earth's atmosphere over five billion years, surpass the energy, which can create a BAC. In their logic, time travelers must already be here. If the worm appear , I promise to eat his hat, which I gave birth on the day even before I got it. "
Source Telegraph.co.uk
Thursday, February 7, 2008
U.S. Navy Tested World’s Most Powerful Electromagnetic Railgun.
The Navy’s Office of Naval Research successfully conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA. An invited audience, including the Chief of Naval Operations, ADM Gary Roughead, witnessed this revolutionary technology in action.
Railguns provide a capability for sustained, offensive power projection, complementary to missiles and tactical aircraft. They may be a cost-effective solution to the Marine Corp Naval Surface Fire Support requirements because of their unique capability to simultaneously satisfy three key war-fighting objectives:
- Extremely long ranges
- Short time-of-flight
- High lethality (energy-on-target)
Credit: US Navy
More pics of giant Motorcycles
4.1 litre and the maximal capacity in 350 h.p.
And another one.
11 feet high, 20 feet long and, a $300,000 price tag.
Tallest Rideable Motorcycle
Gregory Dunham (USA) has constructed a rideable motorcycle that is 3.429 m (11 ft 3 in) tall to the top of handlebars, 6.187 m (20 ft 4 in) long and weighs 2.948 tonnes (6,500 lb). It is powered by a 8.2 litre (502 cu in) V8 engine and has tyres that are 1.88 m (74 in) tall.
Longest Motorcycle The longest motorcycle is 9.6 m and was achieved by Oleg Rogov (Russia) in Tver (Russia) on December 19, 2005.
sources: Guinness World Records, Motor Sports News,
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Another Giant Motorbike: The super-heavy 10-foot high Monster Motorbike
The super-heavy 10-foot tall motorbike can crush cars in first gear, though it has a 6-speed Allison automatic borrowed from a prime mover,powered by a "Detroit Diesel engine, just in case you need to clock up some highway kilometers.
It also uses a 2-speed Eaton differential from a road train to drive a massive chains on both sides of the spectacular rear wheel.
We're not sure if the Monster Motorbike is capable of popping wheelies and monos, but crushing Commodores is an impressive party trick.
Like the huge body and girder-like front swing-arms, the wheels on the Monster Motorbike are also larger than life. Normally used on Caterpillar's mining trucks prevalent in Western Australia, where they can cart around 300 tonnes of rubble, the wheels on the Monster Motorbike have custom rims finished in white, which adds greatly to the bike's aesthetic. As do the dripping blood decals.
Source WebWombat
Friday, February 1, 2008
Automatic machine guns. Legal in all 50 states... Rubberband Machine Guns.
Gatling Rubberband Machine Gun (144 rubber bands)
This beauty is a fully funcitonal machine gun with TWELVE rotating barrels and a live action trigger. Loads 12 bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands that shoot off as fast as you can turn the handle! Great fun for kids of all ages. MORE than just an amazing machine, this is a true work of art.
Hand crafted in the USA, The rubber band machine gun uses a similar mechanism to the famous Gatling Gun of the old west. It stands 40 inches tall and 44 inches from the handle to the tip of the barrels. The turret effortlessly spins a full 360 degrees and tilts from 45 degrees up to 22 degrees down so you can easily keep a moving target in your sights, no matter where it goes.
ULTIMATE Lego Chaingun (160 rubber bands)
The motor driven barrels start winding up to speed at the flick of a switch on the handle. Pulling the trigger unleashes a stream of rubber bands, deluging the target. The fire rate is high enough that at least half a dozen bands are in the air at any one time – the gun appears to fire a single very long chain of them. It’s as much like using a hose pipe as firing a rubber band gun. It also sounds fantastic because each mechanism makes a distinct click as it discharges a rubber band.
DISINTEGRATOR Rubber Band Gun (288 rubber bands)
Terrorise your workmates with a Disintegrator rubber band gun. The DISINTEGRATOR is the most incredible rubber band gun ever built, capable of firing more than 40 rounds per second (2400 rounds per minute) from its 24 revolving barrels.
P503 DOTT DEL Rubberband Machine Gun (504 rubber bands)
504 shots at 1200 rpm
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