An electric ultralight plane available now if you want to plonk down 21000 $ max, bang it all up together, and take it on a relatively silent 2 hour flight.
Month: September 2008
Advances in Camouflage
Selectively applying a one-centimetre layer of heat-insulating foam can make an armoured personnel-carrier resemble a motorcycle when viewed through thermal-vision goggles.
Spider
An experimental project to make a natural spider.
Duct Tape Drawings
Though classically trained as a stone carver in Italy, Girandola has veered away from the media concentrating on three-dimensional drawings and paintings using a variety of materials. One medium of choice is Duct Tape.
Cars History
A personal compilation of models and manufacturers from all over the world, from the beginning of the automotive history, up to the present days.
Pizza Scissors
These pizza scissors cut through pizza without scratching the pan underneath it.
Looking Back
Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of its home world 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) away.
Spot-Free Sun
For the last eight months, the sunspots that usually freckle the Sun have virtually disappeared.
Domino Logic
I spotted strange doodles on the back of one of my computer science assignments from high school. After a minute I realized they were plans for logic gates made out of dominoes.
Handmade Flipbooks
I can’t quite remember how I got the idea, but I thought it would be fun to create some flipbooks.