Thursday, 19 July 2007

The MacGyver multitool


via Engadget

Thursday, 12 July 2007

The real Danny Deckchair

Kent Couch, of Bend, sailed with his cluster balloons on the way to Idaho early Saturday morning. He was climbing at roughly 800 feet per minute with the Three Sisters behind him to an expected cruising altitude that averaged 11,000 feet.
An Oregon man has undoubtedly set some kind of record by travelling 193 miles in a flying deckchair, the Bend Bulletin reports.

via theregister.co.uk - here.

Tesla's Tower of Power

Wardenclyffe TowerIn 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of
Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure.
Over a period of several years the men had managed to assemble the
framework and wiring for the 187-foot-tall Wardenclyffe Tower, in spite of severe budget shortfalls and a few engineering snags.    

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Monday, 9 July 2007

Thursday, 5 July 2007

Chair

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