Do you feel down? Is your life depressing?
Well, don’t, perhaps Philippe Croizon, the limbless man who just swam the English Channel should inspire to live on and be positive.
A man with no arms and no legs was today celebrating becoming the first to swim across the English Channel – arriving a full 10 hours ahead of schedule. Philippe Croizon, a 42-year-old who lost all of his limbs in a freak accident, achieved the incredible feat using specially designed prosthetic flippers.
There must be thousands if not millions of unqualified Trekkies out there; they are unqualified because this guy has just set the new standard!
Mark Elder was able to recall all seventy episodes of the Star Trek the original series in just 1 minute, 38.9 seconds at the Star Trek World Record Appreciation Society event held at Joe’s Pub in New York City.
Back in June, David wrote about Tiny Drill, the world’s smallest drill. Of course, this drill could be useful for emergency situations where you would need to drill small holes. (I can’t think of any right now but I am sure it’s not just for looks.)
Anyways, Konstantin, the creator of the Tiny Drill, has finally opened a website where he̵
This would be enough to put anyone off chocolate for life, following a campaign to bring back one of the UK favourite chocolate bars. Wispa Gold used to be made by Cadbury and as part of the marketing; they produced a one off chocolate bar worth an amazing $1,628.
The Wispa Gold has been wrapped in gold leaf and place inside a gold leaf wrapper, this bar is going to be delivered the world famous Selfridges Store in London’s, Oxford St by the lead singer from eighties group Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley will be remembered for singing “Gold”.
It makes no difference where you go there will be men of all ages messing around with some sort of gadget or reliving their past through some pursuit of other. However, there are not many places where you can go and see something like this.
This is the world’s fastest remote control car and it is brilliant, it has been built by the young at heart Nic Case, aged 46. Currently the car can reach a max speed of 161 miles per hour, but with a little tweaking he believes that he can crank it up to go over 200 miles per hour, not that is what you call
Here’s a South Korean farmer who has managed to get 80 satellites up and running as shown here. The main reason is to actually get more channels for the foreign-born women who get married in rural Korea:
In South Korea, which had once prided itself on being a homogeneous society, 4 out of 10 women who married in rural communities l
We’ve seen the brain-powered Twitter machine for people with spinal cord injuries. Well, Toyota has just announced a fully-capable brain-powered wheelchair that you can control with your favorite human body part, the brain! I too, wonder wh
LMAO, this is cool! (via techeblog)
Red Bull Racing NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and his pit crew perform a full pit stop in the middle of Times Square, New York.
20.6 seconds might not be the fastest pit stop ever, but it will never be beaten in Times Square.
During the last sixties and the early seventies, the Saturn V rocket was the pinnacle of technology and the future of the space programme. Many youngsters would have had a model of the rocket in their bedroom, although it may not have been a large as this one.
This Model of the Saturn V is thirty six
You thought it wasn’t possible right? Well, China has been secretly building these giant computers evidenced by this giant keyboard and this
