I blogged this a while back, but the amazing thing to me is apparently this neat concept WILL ACTUALLY GET BUILT. So far one in Moscow and (of course) one in Dubai.
In reading this new info update, there are so really awesome innovations that stand out:

One: of course, the power generation is amazing. I didn’t [...]

Top 20 Scariest Weapons:
My favorite pictured below: THE RODS FROM GOD (no joke)

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Remember that dumb friggin’ show Battle Bots where they stuck hammers on remote control cars? When I first heard about it, I imagined it would be actual robots fighting.
LAAAAME.
Thanks Japan for coming through with the real deal… All they need to do is build thoise robots 10 times bigger.

This was over my head. But I do understand it enough to slightly start believing in it. Basically it shouldn’t be working, but it is.

The invention was refined in conjunction with engineers at the University of Ottawa, and its debut at MIT certainly raised a few eyebrows, even causing electromagnetics expert Markus Zahn to [...]

Making the world a safer place.
WELLINGTON, Fla. — Police in Wellington used a GPS tracking system attached to a baby Jesus to track down the statue and arrest a woman in connection with a Dec. 26 theft. Investigators said the baby Jesus figure was stolen from a Nativity scene in Wellington Wednesday night. Detectives tracked [...]

300 HP, blue tooth, oh and it talks, it friggin talks, it has voice recognition.

Sometimes I’m glad that my arm wrestling machine died in a lack of interest.
TOKYO - Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.
Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 “Arm Spirit” [...]

Neat Font Photography.
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AWESOME!!!!!!

While this isn’t new a “new” concept, this is a new mashup of existing concepts in buildings and architecture. I like it, as impractical as it is.
While the architectural playground that is Dubai isn’t running low on innovative buildings, David Fisher is hoping to add yet another skyscraper to the mix with his self-sufficient [...]

REMOTE CONTROL SURFER FOR REALLY SMALL DAYS.
Man, me annd my brother used to dream about this as kids.
SEE THE VIDEO!

That sounds cool, huh?

I’ve been reading about this online for a bit, but finally had a moment to check out the video. This is amazing and so totally illegal and awesome.
Of course for every D.I.Y’er who makes up a civil resistance device, the military makes up 3 or 4…
L.A.S.E.R. Tag is Graffiti Research Lab’s newest endeavor in [...]

The photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. by recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye.
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HOLOGRAMS HAVE COME A LONG WAY…

This boathouse is made of Pykrete, a frozen mixture of wood shavings and water (ice), and was a secret prototype for an envisioned 2 million ton British aircraft carrier during World War II. For comparison, the biggest ship at the time was the Queen Mary, weighing in at 86,000 tons.
This is a very interesting article [...]

An estimated 26,000 people are killed or maimed every year by 60 to 70 million undetected land mines in 70 countries. Most are civilians.
There are two things that drive human invention in this world. One is the desire to kill people, and the other is the desire to clean up the mess caused by the [...]