This must be one of the funkiest cool boxes around. This particular model as a 500 watt motor built in which allows you to ride it up to 14 MPH. Inside the 14MPH Cooler you will find a space for up to 24 12-oz beverage cans as well as space for 8 lbs of ice. [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2007
The cougar IED (improvised explosive device) truck is huge. It is mine resistant and ambush protected (MRAPs) the Marines placed an order for 1000 of them a few months back. They are stronger then the armoured Humvee’s. A V-Shaped undercarriage is used to redirect explosives around the vehicle. The small version above is a 4×4 [...]
A paintball team named Team Cynergy from New Jersey have created a laser activated paintball gun out a Red Dot laser sight. When the laser line is cut the Tippmann X7 paintball gun shoots. This would be a rather good project for building ready for a paintball battle as it would allow you to create [...]
A lot of retro type gear is being re created in a more modern way. However, this retro flip down clock retains most of it’s retro-ness by by using actual flip down mechanism. It is powered by a 9V battery and the minutes flip down every 60 seconds (no surprise there). It is available now [...]
This new camcorder has a 5.4 megapixel CCD and records DVD quality film on to it’s memory. The screen is high res and LCD (2.5″) and the camera can capture 720×480 at an impressive 30 frames per second. Video and pictures are stored on either the 64Meg of internal memory or an SD card which [...]
A rather different approach to the computer mouse has been created. We see many different mice in different shapes and different sizes. The next to join the ranks of “weird” is the rubber duck mouse. The mouse it’s self is fairly standard with it’s 2 buttons and optical sensor along with a scroll wheel. What [...]
The latest Google Maps for Mobile has a new feature built in where it can locate you (by estimation) by using nearby cell phone towers. When testing this for my self I found it tracked me with in a few hundred yards of my actual location. This is great for those wanting to use the [...]
The N-Com Helmet from Nolan has a built in bluetooth communication system which allows you to easily connect to a mobile phone or MP3 player. It has headphones and a mic built in and allows two way communication with the phone or another passenger on the bike. Several variations of the helmet are available more [...]
The talking paper is a new idea which allows you to encode about 10 seconds of audio on to a piece of paper. To listen to the message you need to get a mobile phone which has barcode capabilities or use a hand-held scanner. Once scanned the message is played back. Eight kilobytes are stored [...]
This Cadillac was decorated with 5000 silver spoons. Cleaning must be a problem as he would need to polish each and every spoon which would take a serious amount of time.
Edit:
OK… Thanks to Brian’s comment below (and a read of the licence plate) you can in fact see that it’s Uri Geller. That would explain [...]
