| It's not just a shoe - watch it turn into something else. http://www.nike.com/nikelab/video/airmaxq_marshall.jhtml |
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If rock-paper-scissor is too simple for you, then you can try David Lovelace's RPS-15, with 1.3 trillion permutation and 105 possible outcomes. Still too simple, try RPS-25 with 15.5 octillion permutations and 300 outcomes. Link |
| Apparently, a bent dry spaghetti does not break in half but instead in three or more pieces. After careful experiments, scientists discovered that ".. the mere release of the rod induces a stress increase. The multiple breaking of bent rods, like dry spaghetti pasta, can then be understood as a cascade of releases (loss of cohesion upon breakings) followed by stress increases leading to new cracks" Still no cure for cancer. http://www.lmm.jussieu.fr/spaghetti/index.html |
| Why give flowers when you can give the "shiitake mushroom log"? With proper care, the log can yield a crop of mushroom every 8 to 12 weeks for years! http://www.redenvelope.com/re/gifts/product_display/product_information.jsp?nc=25189&refPg=%2fproduct_display%2fgift_results.jsp&bct2=occasion&bcp2=1&bcm2=1%24%24-8031&bct5=thank%2Byou&bcp5=4&bcm5=29$$%2Foccasion%2Fthank%2Byou@@30$$-8044@@35$$8044&catOid=-8044&oid=12057519&nc2=1 (via popgadget) |
| World's best authors have their shares of rejection letters. Stephen King got so many that he used to nail them on a spike in his bedroom. Pulitzer-winning author William Saroyan had rejection letters piled 30-inch high. Now, you can do something more constructive with your rejection letters: turn them into toilet paper. Link |
Hieroglyphic images of modern-day helicopter, submarines, and UFOs found on the ceiling of a 3000-year old New Kingdom Temple in Egypt. Link |
Vending machines are everywhere in Japan - there are roughly 5.6 million vending machines, which work out to be 1 for every 20 people there. This one is an egg vending machine. For others, see Douglas Mann's great collection here: http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/ |
The Viennese art group Gelatin designed a 200-foot-long toy rabbit on the side of the Colletto Fava mountain in Italy. From the website: "Gelatin members say the bunny is not just for walking around - they are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly." Link |
Lemur IIb is a rock-climbing robot developed by NASA for martian mountains. It climbs by gripping with three legs and feeling for a place to grip with the fourth. Link (via The Raw Feed) |
E.W. Barton-Wright took a martial arts system of fighting with walking sticks developed by a Swiss professor of arms, M. Vigny, and assimilated it into a his own system called "Bartitsu". For real! It was published in the Journal of Non-Lethal Combatives. Link |
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