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.
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 he’s selling his artwork. Check it out if you want to get one of these. If nothing else, at least you can amus
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 last year were foreign born. In Yeongju alone, the number of foreign wives increased by 28 percent in the past year and a half, to 250, half of them from Vietnam.
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 when we will be able to drive a car with our brains but the wheelchair is no small feat for sheezy.
According to Toyota, the company’s BMI technology has advanced to the point where it’s practi
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.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZbnR7rKR6k
You thought it wasn’t possible right? Well, China has been secretly building these giant computers evidenced by this giant keyboard and this giant mouse. These certainly are the biggest and heaviest computer parts I’ve seen so far in the modern ages…
Fast Finger Keyboard brings you the most revolutionary keyboard I have ever seen, featuring letters in a chronological order.
Why didn’t I think of this earlier?
This keyboard is recommended (personally by me Max ahem!) to any babies, kids, or all you 1-finger keyboard peckers.
A.B.C.D.E.F.G, well, the ABC song here that you can “train” with the Fast Finger Keyboard.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8
How cool is this? This is like that Back to The Future car!
The Gasifier Experimenters Kit (GEK) offers beginners through experts an easy way build, compare and customize a wide variety of gasifier reactor types and configurations. Whether you’re a DIY enthusiast or a university researcher, the GEK will get you over the starting hurdles of biomass gasification, and on to the more rewarding work of refining specific architect
Well, I have been literally getting thousands of requests for help on my Christmas Controller every year (and increasing annually, sorry if I haven’t got back to you yet), but here’s a really cool OLED Christmas Tree!
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ
In the spirit of the Holiday season, GE showcases its OLED technology in a relevant fashi
New Years event in New York City Times Square “next” year, will be powered in part by pedals by humans.
How cool is that? Save earth.
Duracell has set up a “power lodge” in Times Square where visitors are ushered to a row of bicycles with generators connected to a set of massive batteries.
So far the project has collected 95 hours of pedal power, or about 35 pe
