The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
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But is shorely do look t3h purty, don’t it? I’m easily impressed by this kind of stuff.
Igorshmigor from DeviantArt created this incredible 3D-rendered Seiko watch using Rhino 3D 2.
Click the image for a full sized view.
[tags]Virtual objects, Realistic rendered art[/tags]
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Tons of downloadable/printable flashcards for all kinds of things you need or want to learn. Personally, I’m considering it these for the work on my older son’s reading skills. But I can also see some usable categories for my own study. Just look at some of the high-level categories with printable cards:
There are a few more areas of study in addition to those above. I do think they need to fix that spelling error in the first category though. 🙂
[tags]Flash Cards, Study helpers[/tags]
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Get out and build a kite for fun project. This is the kind of thing I need to work on with my children. They’d love having a kite, especially one they got to make themselves. Yes, I’m turning my children into geek/DIY-ers.
[tags]DIY, kite[/tags]
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This is one of many such clocks – watch a clock, updated by the second, tracking time. Why is this one worth my mentioning? Because it’s updated via blocks. That is, every second, a stack of blocks is added to, until the stack has 9 blocks. Then, that stack is knocked over, the next column gets another block added, and the seconds blocks start stacking again. Easy to watch, and somehow mesmerizing.
[tags]Clock, animated time[/tags]
Following are a few recent food items from the ReadyMade magazine blog. All of these caught my eye for various reasons. Let me just say now that I plan on making the last one with my kids some time (as in, I plan on getting my kids to help me make them, not I plan on using my kids as the ingredients necessary to make them).
This selection comes to ReadyMade from the Vegan Lunch Box blog. Perfect for all you ingredient conscious twinkie consumers.
This is the one I need to make for my kids. Of course, since I work nights, my wife might not appreciate me making some on the week-end with the boys and then leaving her to hold the children off the marshmallows during the week. And I am certain they don’t need more sugar in their systems after she gets home from school with them.
Well, at least close to what I consider affordable. You can now pre-order the Samsung’s YM-P1 portable/personal media player for only $370 according to the Samsung page. And it’s t3h sw3ck-See.
The YM-P1 features a 16M-color 4″ TFT widescreen display, 20GB of storage, MP3 / WMA / OGG / AC3 audio playback, MPEG-4 / DivX / WMV video playback, JPG / BMP photo viewing, line-in video recording, voice recording, FM tuner, SDIO memory card and expansion slots, USB host functionality, and a 15-hour battery life (6 hours for video). The domestically released YM-PD1 includes the addition of T-DMB TV reception.
[tags]Samsung, PMP[/tags]
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I know sooooo many people who need this. It amazes me how much trouble people have parallel parking.
Vehicles that are able to parallel park themselves while drivers sit and relax behind the wheel are coming to the United States, according to a Local 6 News report.
New Toyota hybrid cars are now available in Britain with a $700 “parking assist” option.
Local 6 news showed video of a driver sitting and allowing the car’s steering wheel to turn on its own as it pulled into a tight parking spot on a London street. The reporter never touched the wheel as the car parked itself.
[tags]Self-parking car, Toyota[/tags]
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If 
you find your shoelaces just don’t have to pep they used to, maybe you are tying them wrong. Why not visit Ian’s shoelace site and learn how to to a better job with those shoelaces?
Slipping Shoelaces?
Do your shoelaces always seem to come undone? If so, you’re probably tying a “Slip” knot, and one simple change to your technique will turn it into a “Reef” knot that stays secure. Note that my “Ian Knot“, the World’s Fastest Shoelace Knot, forms a secure “Reef” knot!
[tags]Shoelaces, Knots[/tags]
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We may not actually be to the point of super-vision via bionic eyes, but work continues to advance the field. The subject of this article, Cheri Robertson, calls herself robo-chick.
More than a million people in the United States are legally blind. Many of them once had vision but tragically lost it. Now a breakthrough device could give them back some of their sight.
. . .
Robertson is blind, but this device allows her to see, not with her eyes but with her brain! Fifteen years ago, she lost both of her eyes in a car accident. She was just 19 years old.
. . .
A camera on the tip of Robertson’s glasses sends signals to a computer that’s strapped around her waist. The computer then stimulates electrodes in the brain through a cord that attaches to the head. Patients see flashes of light and outlines of objects.
As computers get more powerful, patients are expected to see less light flashes and more views of the world. The surgery is currently done in Portugal, but hopefully will be available in the US in the next few years. Be sure to read the full article for more information – it really sounds pretty cool.
[tags]Restoring vision[/tags]
(via MAKEzine blog)
Well, maybe not actually Kung-Fu fighting, but I like that song. Head over to robot-fan.net to view some videos from the Robo-One 9 event last week in Tokyo. The below picture was snagged from a video in which the red robot, well, 0wns the other robots.
[tags]Robo-One, robots[/tags]
Livescience has an article on a recent test shot of a beam of neutrinos from Fermi-lab (in Batavia, IL) to a particle detector in Soudan, MN. As a result of some of the neutrinos not making it, the scientists have apparently verified a theory which indicates neutrinos have mass. This sets up further studies into the nature of neutrinos.
There are three types of neutrinos, each associated with a different charged particle: the electron neutrino, the muon and the tau. The Fermi scientists think the vanishing act they witnessed was a result of the neutrinos changing from one form to another, a phenomenon called “neutrino oscillation.”
The test results provide further evidence that neutrinos must have mass, the scientists say. If the masses of all three types were zero, neutrino oscillation would not occur.
[tags]Fermi-lab, neutrinos[/tags]
(via MAKEzine blog)
Parts list, instructions, build motivation, blueprints, and loads of pictures to guide you at the builder’s site. Even some guidance on mistakes to avoid if you decide to build your own/
So I you are planning a project like this here are a few tips so you do not make the same mistakes I make:
- Use more powerful motors or motor if you build a single engine craft
- Get already made fans do not try to build you own
- Use light components, this is the most important it has to be a light as possible
- If you do not know what you are doing, get some plans off the internet, try Universal Hovercraft they have got some good stuff
[tags]DIY, hovercraft[/tags]
