February 4, 2008
B52 ejector seat chair
This is for real fly boy people who love aircraft and in particular those that would have taken part in a third world war if there ever was anything like it. It does not look like it is going to be the most comfortable chair in the world, but then again the air force boy spent hours in these chairs so there must have been an element of comfort th ... More
January 30, 2008
Flying around
If you like to fool around with people’s minds, then this is what you need to get and fast before they fly away! These flies look as if they are eating your hand away, but in fact are rings that slip over your finger and look very much like the real thing. There are loads of applications that this could be used for; they are especially good whe ... More
January 27, 2008
Worlds largest RC aircraft
Check out the Largest RC plane in the world. (supposedly claimed until the next person who comes out with something bigger. Heck, why don’t you just build an RC plane for your dog?)via High T3ch Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Flying, Flying, player_swf, type_application, Video, Video, World records, World records, x_shockwave_flash ... More
January 21, 2008
Jet engines that fit in hand
Researchers at the Oklahoma State University and DARPA have developed something that can only described as a mini jet engine, it can vary in from being smaller than a cigarette to longer than a foot, but can provide power to a UVA or other un-manned craft, which can take video or other images of the enemy. This is a great time for this type of te ... More
January 6, 2008
Pulse Jet Go-Cart
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, wee! Dat thang is loud! We are on a blog marathon today folks to start off 2008 on a speed-blogging theme. We will be posting 30+ posts per day just like “we used to”. via HackedGadgets 5u, Blog, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Flying, Flyi ... More
December 31, 2007
Batteries become next WMD
As from tomorrow there is no point trying to get on a plane when in possession of lithium battery in a plastic casing. If the batteries are new as if they are in the original packaging then they can be taken, but other than that, no lithium batteries will be allowed on a plane. Source [New Launches] Audio, Audio, Batteries, Batteries, Consumer, ... More
December 30, 2007
Jet powered school bus
Now there are no excuses for the kids to be late for school any more. This is a jet powered school bus which will burn up the road and reach take off speed, or rather you would have thought so but there is no data available on the performance, or in fact if there is any room left for seats anyway! Source [Hacked Gadgets] Auto, Auto, Cool, Cool, ... More
December 23, 2007
Knightrider has some cool gadgets
The long awaited return of Knightrider will soon be upon us, but the star of the show has always been the car named KITT rather than the star named “The Hoff”. Some of the features of the new KITT are the following: Laser weapons system, Nanotech cloaking, Laser-guided missile defence, 3D heads-up display, Military-grade GPS, Holographic proj ... More
December 12, 2007
NASA creates flying telescope
This is an attempt to get some great images from space, but without the costs involved by maintaining the Hubble telescope in space, which is great but hugely expensive. This forms part of the NASA Origins program and by working with the DLR who are the German Aerospace Centre they have developed a flying telescope inside a Boeing 747SP. This wil ... More
November 29, 2007
Come fly in my OPAV
For those who don’t know an OPAV is an Optionally Piloted Air Vehicle, this version can be flown unmanned or with a pilot hovering around 15 feet above the ground on a cushion of air similar to that of a hovercraft. The company behind the VeriPod are called Air Buoyant they believe that this could be the Segway of the sky, although15 feet in th ... More
November 24, 2007
Build your own helicopter
It’s true that with enough determination that a person can do almost anything, in the case of Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24 years old physics undergraduate from Nigeria, he did just that. He always wanted his own helicopter, but did not want to spend the couple of million dollars on buying one, so he went down to the local scrap yard and bui ... More
November 11, 2007
At last the flying car!
This is the dream of every school child the thought of hoping into the family car and flying off to some great vacation and back in no time at all. This flying car only has seats though, but it is early days and there is plenty of time for the designers to make a larger one! At the moment the this car is nineteen long, has folding wings for easy ... More
November 28, 2006
Automatic Pilot Helicopters - MIT profs create autonomous UAVs
The MIT Team is using DraganFlyer helicopters, Gentoo Linux, Gumstix, and Vicon Motion Capture Systems and has sponsorship from Boeing. Creating a robot that can manage to fly around a room on its own without hitting a wall is a mean feat to pull off, but that’s exactly what a team of professors at MIT have managed to do. Their multiple-UAV ... More
November 19, 2006
Flying Alarm Clock wakes you in incredibly annoying way, cheap enough to destroy
Here’s a cool alarm clock that will fly via techdigest! To heck with broken flying clocks, the Flying Alarm Clock is the real thing. It goes off at the appointed moment, and then takes off into the air, continuing to siren, until you catch it and turn the little b–qz–ing off. Not recommended if you sleep with the windows open o ... More
