A man named Wang Xiao Kang from China created this impressive mock suit based on the movie, Iron Man. It weighs 110 pounds and includes an LED light arc reactor. Kang spent around $460 to complete the suit… pretty cool! Check out more photos below, and some video of him taking the suit to work!
via dailymail. Yeh… I don’t think this will fly (pun intended). Anyways, Airbus (the makers of the 5 Star plane) recently unveiled this transparent-skinned plane concept in London and are billing it as ‘the plane of 2050’. Would this freak you out?
First, business and economy cabins are replaced by zones for relaxation in the front, work in the back, and a fully-stocked bar for socialising.Passengers will be able to see everything to the sides and in front of them. So blindfolds might be handy come take-off and landing time.
The aircraft’s walls change according to light conditions. There are holographic pop-up gaming displays and in-flight entertainment powered by the heat of passengers’ bodies.
Most of the basic technology such as moulding seats and ‘head-up displays’ already exist, but how Airbus plan to make the plant-based, transparent ‘skin’ of the plane remains a mystery.
via kickstarter. Ray Villafane is a pumpkin-carving expert… they are eerie, yet incredibly detailed. Check out some more photos after the break.
via jalopnik. What do you do when you don’t feel like paying for a tow truck to tow your vehicle somewhere? You just put it inside of your van…
“Police stopped a van in northern Germany when they noticed that the rear doors weren’t fully closed. There was a good reason why they weren’t: the entire rear of the Sprinter van was filled with a Mazda. Don’t worry! Mattresses and bedding covered the car to prevent it from getting any scratches.”
via the305. Whoops! Yesterday, the Miami Herald printed a Macy’s ad congratulating the Miami Heat on winning the NBA Finals… Just for added effect, the ad runs directly under a headline that says “Dallas Wins Best-Of-7 Series 4-2″… ugh.
Of course we are all very accustomed to seeing certain logos with certain brands. When you really think about it, they are pretty well ingrained in our minds… Graham Smith swapped several logos for various brand names with their most fierce competitors, creating what he calls “Brand Reversion”. See more below.
via reddit. This guy is crazy… it was pretty amusing though. I guess he does have a point. Watch the video below.
Casey Neistat got a ticket for riding his bicycle outside of a bike lane in New York City. He argued with the police officer that sometimes he does so because there are obstructions that make it unsafe to use the designated lane. The cop didn’t care, and issued him the citation anyway.
To prove his point, Mr. Neistat made this video, showing how dangerous it would be to comply with the law…by crashing his bike, over and over again into road hazards. He saved the best for last.
via YahooNews. Several boats gathered on May 31st in Northern Ireland to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Titanic. Briton Mark Wilkinson took his newly acquired boat (a 16-foot cabin cruiser), named the Titanic II, out for it’s maiden voyage, and it promptly sank. Lol. Hat Tip: Amar
“If it wasn’t for the harbourmaster I would have gone down with the Titanic,” Wilkinson, who had to be fished out of the sea at West Bay harbour in Dorset, told local media. “It’s all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg.”
via gizmag. Don’t really see the point of this, but it’s pretty cool regardless. Video below.
Students at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany have created a new concept for smartphones they call the “imaginary phone” concept. The premise of the idea is to allow users to be able to do micro interactions with their phones, without actually having to interact with their phone. Working with the phone on a daily basis gives us a fair idea of the buttons and operations that could be done without even looking at the phone.
Currently, the concept utilizes depth sensitive cameras to recognize hand gestures like tapping and sliding to ultimately convey the information to the smartphone. Patrick Baudisch, a professor of computer science at the institute believes the idea could come in useful for certain interactions where the imaginary phone serves as a shortcut to rid users of common mundane tasks.
Toccata and fugue in D minor by J.S. Bach… with wine glasses! This is amazing! Watch it below.
