Posts Tagged ‘project’
235mpg From Volkswagen: Thats Fuel Economy!
Friday, July 4, 2008 13:50 No CommentsVolkswagen goes ahead in the lead for the most fuel efficient car. They resurrected a 6 year old project, called One-Liter Car, that is able to achieve up to 235mpg. To bring things into perspective an ordinary family size car, can do 30-40mpg. This is good news for the consumers, especially now that oil prices [...]
Testicles That React With Human Touch
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 18:10 1 CommentJason Krugman, Stella Kim and Ben Chao have created a set of huge testicles, hung from the ceiling, that react to human touch. The Teste Touch, as it is called, has a built-in temperature sensor that responds to heat as real testicles do. When it comes in contact with something cold the “balls” shrink [...]
jDome: The Revolution In 3D Gaming?
Monday, May 12, 2008 17:30 No CommentsNo need for virtual reality when you can have the jDome. This gadget offers the 3D effect by using a simple light trick. A projector shines the game/image on a semi spherical semi transparent glass. When the gamer stands in the middle of the dome he feels surrounded by this 180 degree view. This is [...]
Star Wars Mosaic: Last Supper
Thursday, March 13, 2008 16:03 No CommentsLately I bump on to projects that make me wonder how and why they got started. One of these is the recreation of the Last Supper filled with characters from Star Wars. This was done by someone who sat down and took 69,550 screen captures from Star Wars movies and with in two weeks (and [...]
Absolut Machines: Online Quarter and Choir
Thursday, February 21, 2008 18:15 No CommentsThe Absolut Machines Project is probably the most original things that I have came across lately in the Internet. It is a collaboration between ABSOLUT VODKA, and graduates from the MIT (Dan Paluska, Jeff Lieberman) and the Swedish Studio Teenage Engineering. This project consists of two parts, the Absolut Quarter and the Absolut Choir, [...]