Put these shakers down on the table and people are not going to know what to them.

The cool thing about the beauties is the fact that if someone picks these up and shake them and nothing at all will happen, but bend them slightly and you will get all of the salt and pepper that you need, cool!

Priced at $54

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This is the sort of thing that you would expect to see in a horror movie or something where you have the gang that ride along on motorbikes terrorising innocent people.

It also looks as if it wouldn’t give much protection, but I suppose that it must have past the required tests etc.

The one good thing about it is the ventilation that is gained by having the eye sockets in the front.

Priced at around $149.99

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Wow, check out this hilarious gun that can go around corners by flexing itself. How come no one ever thought of this?

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This stand is a sort of thing that you might see in an art gallery as an exhibit, it’s so cool that it has a sponge at the bottom for the umbrella to rest into when not in use, while the hoop holds the umbrellas in place.

This is quite a nice stylish item which would look really nice the hallway of any home.

Priced at $155

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Now this is very strange, as you can plainly see its watch, but it doesn’t look it little rusty to you? Well it should do, because before the metal was retrieved it was lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and has been there since 1912!

Yes folks this is said to be made from a genuine piece of the ill fated ship, just a few pieces of like the front and hands are made from the Titanic, the rest is made from titanium and blackened steel.

There is no price for this yet, and I suppose that there will be those who are for it and those who are against it, I personally think it looks like a new watch that has been left outside in the rain for a while.

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Wow, this 24 year old from Nigeria built his own helicopter!

Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts

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Although this is an awesome Wii hack using GlovePie and the Wiimote, you could probably do this a lot easier using a simple 3-axis accelerometer and a microcontroller.

I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment.

Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times!

So I did. I wrote a script to dump all the g-force readings from the wiimote to a comma separated value file, then did some post processing in MS Excel, and voila, I can see every bump, every curve, my acceleration and braking, and even calculated my current speed using high school physics (v=a*t)

I even convinced my coworker to take me out in his E46 M3 to measure his SMG’s performance

I admit, it’s not super accurate since the wiimote spits out G readings rounded to two decimal places. It also provides other acceleration readings in finer granularity, but I couldn’t figure out what metric it was recording in. I used Gs since I knew it was just the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s/s)

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You know, my neighbor used to leave about $2000 in CASH on his dining table AND he NEVER locked his front door of his house.

One day, I asked him, “What if someone robs you?”

He said, “I trust God and he will protect me…”

Well, the funny thing is, this guy has NEVER been robbed all his life!

BUT if you don’t believe me, you can always stick with some type of backyward surveillance system where you can play god yourself…

This certainly deserves to be a “one-of-a-kind” surveillance system. Talking about “one-of-a-kind”, we made a new website last week called, SFOneOfAKind.com.

It’s basically a blog I built for one of my “real estate” friends who sells some high-rise penthouses in downtown San Francisco. Anyways, check both out!

The tilt mechanism is a little more complex, the mirror is pivoted in the center on a copper tube, at one end of the mirror are springs which keep tension on the cord, on the other is the cord itself. Pull the cord and the mirror tilts. Complicating this is the fact that mirror can spin fully round. I wanted the tilt to remain independent and unchanging from the spin so I had to run the cord through a guide that sits in the centre of rotation. This guide is relatively invisible in practice because it is located so far back from the focal plane. The tilt is controlled at the bottom with a simple wooden lever.

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Wow, check out this really cool rainwater harvester!

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Wow, check out this Jacobs Ladder too!

This is how I used a neon sign transformer to create my own classic sci-fi prop the Jacobs Ladder. A Jacobs Ladder is nothing more than two vertical wires attached to a very high voltage. The wires which form the ladder are close together at the base but diverge as they go up. When switched on an electric arc forms at the base of the wires. The arc heats the air above it and in doing so forms an easier path for the electricity to take. The arc moves upwards continually heating the air above itself and rising to take the easier path until eventually the arc reaches the end of the wires and leaps into the air. Once free of the wires it dies but a new arc starts again at the bottom of the ladder. The arc itself moves with a very distinctive buzzing noise. These devices are most usually seen in old sci-fi and horror films and the houses of strange people.

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