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LEGO House Destroyed

Administrator — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:12:12 +0000

The famous James May’s LEGO House has been destroyed. Really sad, don’t you think so? He made it with lots of love, the LEGO house really looks great and had full functionaly toilet. Now it’s gone, LegoLand didn’t took it because transport prices were too high. What else to say, take a look at the pictures.

Via DailyMail.

Caveland – Home Built in a Cave

Administrator — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:17:51 +0000

Caveland, a home of Curt Sleeper and his entire family. They are living there for the last five year. All started in December 2003. When Curt searched for some property on eBay I after a while found a cave in the Fetus/Crystal area stationed in Missouri. Curt’s family fell in love like after they looked this beautiful spot. Teirs place is maybe not like famous Elkep Evi, the hotel inside rock mountain, but still it is a nice place for living. Via Caveland.

House Built From LEGO

Administrator — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:35 +0000

Many of us like LEGO, different kind of buildings and structures. There are awesome models of ship models, such as Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier or famous people made out of LEGO. But this one is the biggest project which I ever saw. James May, a toy fan from UK, went far away from the other LEGO builders and modelers. He made a real house of LEGO bricks, in which you can spend some weekend or made a party in it. Very impressive, don’t you think so?

Craigslist Reader

Administrator — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:29:33 +0000

After deciding I was missing out on the best of Craigslist, I decided to download a Craigslist search tool. With a few choices, I finally settled on the Craigslist Reader from Motion Technologies. So, did I like what I got? You bet I did!

The Pros

Search all of Craigslist or just a few cities! The Craigslist Reader gives you the ability to search any city page on Craigslist or all of them at once. Whether you live between two different cities, are looking to relocate for the right job, or are willing to have your purchases mailed, this feature is a great must-have.

Search multiple categories at once. You know you want to buy a television and that would fall under the “electronics” section on Craigslist, but you might be surprised how many sellers list them elsewhere. This isn’t a problem with the Craigslist Reader because you can search multiple categories (or all) at once.

New listing alerts by Email/SMS/RSS-Feed. Although the Craigslist Reader is easy to use, it gets even easier with alerts. You don’t have to keep on searching; get an email or SMS as soon as a job, gig, or for sale item appears that meets your standards.

Editable search results. When you perform a search with the Craigslist Reader, your search results are shown at the top of the program window. Unlike on Craigslist, your list is editable. Want to remove low-paying jobs? Go right ahead and do so. Don’t keep on looking at junk!

The Cons

I was hard pressed to find a Craigslist Reader con. I guess you could say I am buying more things on Craigslist, but thanks to the Craigslist Reader I am the first to find good deals and free stuff. In fact, that is why I consider the cost an investment and you should too; there are many ways to make and save thousands of dollars!

In short, I give the Craigslist Reader a 10/10. What more could you say about a program that lets you search all of Craigslist without restrictions, edit your search results, reply to listings from the program, setup new listing alerts, save your searches and more.

You can download CraigsList Reader from http://www.motiont.com/craigslistreader.aspx

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Milestii Mici – The Underground City of Wine

Administrator — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:48:13 +0000

In August, 2005 Mile?tii Mici is a collection of wine was registered in the Guinness World Records for being the biggest Wine Collection in the world. It took nearly a year to consider the application. The collection comprises 1.5 million bottles. Stretching for 250 kilometres (160 mi), of which only 120 kilometres (75 mi) are currently in use, the Mile?tii Mici cellar complex is also the largest in the world. Overall, the complex holds nearly 2 million bottles. More than 70% of the stored wines are red, 20% are white and about 10% are dessert ones. The most valuable items of this collection, worth €480 a bottle, were produced in 1973-74; they are now exported only to Japan.The State Enterprise Quality Wines Industrial Complex “Milestii Mici” was found in 1969 as a mini-complex for storing, preserving and maturing high quality wines.

The wines stored here are made from crops of various years, beginning with 1969: “Pinot”, “Traminer”, “Muscat”, “Riesling”, “Feteasca”, “Dnestrovscoie”, “Milestscoie”, “Codru”, “Negru de Purcari”, “Trandafirul Moldovei”, “Auriu”, “Cahor-Ciumai”, and others. Local ancient underground galleries, reach the Chisinau borders. The first parties of wine were brought into the galleries at the end of the 60-es and the results exceeded all expectations. The limestone played the role of a natural accumulator of constant humidity (85-95%) and temperature (12 °C (54 °F) – 14 °C (57 °F)) throughout the year. The longer the wines are stored in such ideal conditions, the better their qualities are. The wines are being brought at the enterprise for many decades, only there becoming splendid collection and high quality wines.

RX78 Gundam In Real Life

Administrator — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:13:33 +0000

The RX-78 Gundam is the iconic Gundam mecha design, introduced in 1979 in Yoshiyuki Tomino’s and Sunrise’s anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. In Mobile Suit Gundam, it is a testbed weapon for the Earth Federation, when it falls into the hands of Amuro Ray, the son of a weapons designer, who goes on to pilot it in the Earth Federation’s war against the Principality of Zeon. Now you can see it live, Japanese made a real size Gundam RX78 statute, it’s very cool. This Gundam RX78 is 18 metres tall and it has movable head and shoots smoke from some parts. Maybe it is even cooler that this Bumblebee Trasnformer statue.

The RX-78’s initial concept was that of a powered armor, the primary design for Yoshiyuki Tomino’s proposed series Freedom Fighter Gunboy. The series later changed its name to Mobile Suit Gundam and Kunio Okawara was given Tomino’s concept to shape into a finalized design for the anime. Okawara did various designs, including the original design on the right, before settling on the current, more samurai-styled design. One of the common questions asked is why did the enemies in the series keep referring to the RX-78-2 as White while it is a mix of blue, red, and white. Tomino’s response in the novel version of Gundam is that the original design was to be a grayscale machine, made up of mostly white and light gray coloring.

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Bumblebee Transformer Home-made Statue

Administrator — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:57:34 +0000

Tom Rhoads, from California, decided to build a Bumblebee replica and he placed it in his yard. If you want to take a look at it you also need to follow some rules. The real size Transformer statue is 18-foot-tall and it is not build with Camaro like in a Transformers movie, he used an old Volkswagen Beetle.

Bumblebee is the “little brother” of the heroic Autobot faction, constantly striving to prove himself in the eyes of the taller, stronger robots that he respects – especially his leader, Optimus Prime. So strong is this admiration toward others, he takes risks that put him in danger. Although a bit of a wise-cracker, he is a capable and reliable messenger and spy, his small size allowing him to go places that his larger comanders cannot. He is highly fuel efficient, has great visual acuity, is particularly adaptable to undersea environments and transforms into a Volkswagen Beetle. He was later reconstructed in a stronger, more mature form as Goldbug.

Bumblebee is established as the smallest of the first year Autobots, but his actual size varies greatly in the various media, ranging from the same size as other Autobot cars to barely taller than a human. His only official height was in an early issue of the Marvel comics where it is stated he is 15 feet tall.

Bumblebee’s primary function in the original Transformers animated series and comics was to serve as the “young” character with whom the youthful viewing audience could identify, and he would befriend the Autobots’ primary human ally – the young son of the Witwicky family (Buster in the Marvel comic – see issue #1 – and Spike in the cartoon) – to this end, a concept that persists into the 2007 live-action film. Although a well-known character because of this, Bumblebee is quite unusual in that, unlike many other Transformers, his name has not been re-used and applied to unrelated characters throughout the ensuing twenty years of Transformers media, due to the loss of the trademark until recently.

Neurosurgical Set From Early 19th Century

Administrator — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:07:19 +0000

A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it. Over time, many different kinds of surgical instruments and tools have been invented. Some surgical instruments are designed for general use in surgery, while others are designed for a specific procedure or surgery. Accordingly, the nomenclature of surgical instruments follows certain patterns, such as a description of the action it performs (for example, scalpel, hemostat), the name of its inventor(s) (for example, the Kocher forceps), or a compound scientific name related to the kind of surgery (for example, a tracheotome is a tool used to perform a tracheotomy).

This is neurosurgical set dating to the early 19th century.They are signed by Zitier, Heine and Sandill and it is likely that the boxed set was made specifically to accommodate these instruments. More info here.

Audio Tower of Babel by Tivoli

Administrator — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:25:30 +0000

Do you have an idea what could you do with 1000 Tivoli’s radio satellites? Maybe that number is too much for you but if you want to build something with them then you will need several of Tivoli’s satellites. This is audio Tower of Babel by Tivoli, it was presented at Milan Design Week 2009 to promote collaboration with Italian designer Giulio Cappellini and the Tivoli. The Audio Tower of Babel got huge popularity in Milan and it is decided to be reconstructed in London, Paris and Moscow. You can also take a look at the building process of Tivoli’s Tower of Babel at the video below.

Do It Yourself Coil Gun

Administrator — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:17:21 +0000

Daniel Eindhoven is talented designer who created this cool coil gun. It took around 40 hours to finish this outstanding job. It weights 5 Kg and, capable of delivering over 18J kinetic energy, and speeds up to 110km/h . This weird coil gun has laser pointer for easy aiming and it costs around 100 Euros.It needs 8 seconds to fire a projectile if is connected to power source or 90 seconds with batteries. It is really impressive, I’m not a gun lover but this one is really made with creativity. You may also would like to check this Swiss mini gun, the smallest gun in the world. A coilgun, as the name implies, consists of a coil of wire – an electromagnet – with a ferromagnetic projectile placed at one of its ends. Effectively a coilgun is a solenoid: an electromagnetic coil with the function of drawing a ferromagnetic object through its center. A large current is pulsed through the coil of wire and a strong magnetic field forms, pulling the projectile to the center of the coil. When the projectile nears this point the electromagnet is switched off and the next electromagnet can be switched on, progressively accelerating the projectile down successive stages. In common coilgun designs the “barrel” of the gun is made up of a track that the projectile rides on, with the driver electromagnetic coils around the track. Power is supplied to the electromagnet from some sort of fast discharge storage device, typically a battery or high-capacity high voltage capacitors designed for fast energy discharge. A diode is used to protect polarity sensitive capacitors (such as electrolytics) from damage due to inverse polarity of the current after the discharge.

There are two main types or setups of a coilgun, single stage and multistage. A single stage coilgun uses just one electromagnet to propel a ferromagnetic projectile. A multistage coilgun uses multiple electromagnets in succession to progressively increase the speed of the projectile. Many hobbyists use low-cost rudimentary designs to experiment with coilguns, for example using photoflash capacitors from a disposable camera, or a capacitor from a standard cathode-ray tube television as the energy source, and a low inductance coil to propel the projectile forward. A superconductor coilgun called a quench gun could be created by successively quenching a line of adjacent coaxial superconducting electromagnetic coils forming a gun barrel, generating a wave of magnetic field gradient traveling at any desired speed. A traveling superconducting coil might be made to ride this wave like a surfboard. The device would be a mass driver or linear synchronous motor with the propulsion energy stored directly in the drive coils.

One main obstacle in coilgun design is switching the power through the coils. There are several main options — the simplest (and probably least effective) is the spark gap, which releases the stored energy through the coil when the voltage reaches a certain threshold. A better option is to use solid-state switches; these include IGBTs or power MOSFETs (which can be switched off mid-pulse) and SCRs (which release all stored energy before turning off). A quick-and-dirty method for switching, especially for those using a flash camera for the main components, is to use the flash tube itself as a switch. By wiring it in series with the coil, it can silently and non-destructively (assuming that the energy in the capacitor is kept below the tube’s safe operating limits) allow a large amount of current to pass through to the coil. Like any flash tube, ionizing the gas in the tube with a high voltage triggers it. However, a large amount of the energy will be dissipated as heat and light, and, due to the tube being a spark gap, the tube will stop conducting once the voltage across it drops sufficiently, leaving some charge remaining on the capacitor.

The coil gun first appeared in literature as the “electric gun” in the 1897 science fiction novel A Trip to Venus by John Munro. The novel described in detail a way to launch vehicles into outer space from the Earth’s surface. In the novel, Munro describes in great detail multiple coils fired in sequence by solenoids timed to achieve acceleration without generating g forces that would harm passengers. The gun could be angled on a hillside if desired.