At first glance this contraption looks slightly rude, in what way I am not completely sure, but having read about the Solar System Chair it appears to be the cutting edge design for furniture, even though it does look somewhat uncomfortable.

The solar system part of this chair has nothing to do with technology of gadgetry but in fact if you study it closer, the red balls represent the planets rotating around the sun, I think!

Whatever the design purpose it is certainly eye catchingly brilliant, made from bright stainless steel tubing, and the red balls, which act as cushioning, it is defiantly a cool design, but somehow I don’t think that I would like to be sitting on that all day long.

At a price of only £99 ($200) it does appear to be good value.

Source [Tech Chee]

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Holy cow, check these guys out, they made cool homemade rockets that almost resemble powerful bottle rockets!

This is the first static test with our homemade tar/oxygen hybrid rocket motor. James Turner and myself (Eric Stackpole), and two of our friends, Jeff Bernard and Caleb Lesher did this project last summer because we wanted to learn more about how rocket engines work. We built the rocket in James’ garage in Humboldt County, CA completely out of parts we got at the local hardware store. We had previously done a little over 20 tests with polyethylene, but none of them came close to this having much power (note the shaking of the camera when the rocket fires.)

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Also check out this kid who made his own rocket launcher.

Here’s a cool video of Bre trying to track his ballon that’s headed for space.
You gotta check out the real-time data tracking which is the coolest part.

Good luck in spotting your balloon!

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Check out some of the cool stuff and people that are going to be at the Maker Faire! (Including us but we have no idea what to bring…yet)

We will get to play with an electric giraff (hopefully) and meet with submarine maker Mike Wernecke.

You can get some tickets for the Maker Faire in San Mateo Fairgrounds here.  And check out Maker Faire in detail here.

There’s some cool Maker Faire Pictures from back in the day here.

More Past Participants and Pics from Maker Faire’s Past

• Engadget at Maker Faire Part I
• Engadget at Maker Faire Part II
• BoingBoing and LaughingSquid
• CNET at MakerFaire

Virgin is making some space travels available for regular maxes like you and me. Well, actually I’ve been reading about this on Time magazine but Bodin brought it up in his new travel blog, onearthtravel. (wait a minute, isn’t this out of earth?!?)

Anyway, check it out. One day, space travel will be like airplane travel. Pay $500 to goto mars or somethin’

Virgin Galactic is the world’s first ever venture into space tourism, giving you the
ground-breaking opportunity to be one of the first ever space tourists. Virgin
Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modeled on the
remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.

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Tight, SpaceX Falcon 1 launched and made it into space!

It looks like there’s a good chance today’s SpaceX launch will be successful - Founder Elon Musk just wrote that they made it into space. The maiden launch attempt one year ago didn’t go so well, and today’s launch was almost aborted.

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Wow, I just ran into this, check it out. Now UFOs seem very real…

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Here’s a cool video on northern lights!