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Earthquake-Ready Table Could Save Your Life in the Future
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No place in the world is safe from earthquakes. They’re one of the most terrifying natural calamities because you can’t help but feel so small and insignificant when the ground begins to shake – and just doesn’t seem to stop.… |
April 22nd, 2012
Truss Robots Could Be Our Future Construction Workers
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A team from Cornell’s Creative Machine Lab have come up with a new robot which can not only crawl along truss structures, but that can actually manipulate them and move them around.… |
February 20th, 2012
Guy Digs Up Basement Using R/C Scaled Models, Must Not Be Married
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Excavating a basement is not all that unusual, but doing it with miniature scale models of construction equipment is something I have never heard of before. But it is awesome. Why not do it with R/C equipment? Sounds like fun. Oh yeah, that’s right. Because all I would be doing… |
February 15th, 2012
Raytheon Heavy Lifter Prototype: Is Anyone Else Thinking of Aliens?
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This Raytheon-Sarcos modified DitchWitch is basically lifter with large robotic arms, allowing the operator to lift and manipulate large loads. It reminds me a lot of those robots in the movie Aliens…. This robot could someday replace forklifts and other types of machines. |
October 15th, 2011
Mobile Building Can Travel by Land and by Water
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I know only a handful of people who still haven’t seen Up…. I think it’s one of the most creative, touching, and meaningful movies ever made (with a touch of quirkiness and a whole lot of cool on the side). One concept the movie unknowingly introduced to the world |
September 12th, 2011
10-foot Tall LEGO Trump International Hotel and Tower Would Make The Donald Proud
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LEGO is the geekiest building material on the planet I think. People use the little bricks to make all sorts of awesome projects. The latest LEGO project that I have come across is massive. Artist Sean Kenney has constructed one of the most accurate LEGO buildings I’ve ever seen.… |
September 6th, 2011
Awesomely Detailed Wooden Replica Caterpillar Excavator: Dig It?
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This is one of those strange DIY projects that is awesome, silly, and just plain weird all rolled into one. If I were going to spend thousands of hours making an exact 1/16 scale replica of something it would certainly not be a Caterpillar 5230B front shovel. This is one… |
July 8th, 2011
Coral Tools Multi Tool Even Keeps Hammer from Meeting Fingers
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I admit that I have a bunch of tools around the house and I can only find half of them. Every time I need a tool, it’s generally the basic screwdriver or hammer that I am on the hunt for and just can’t find. I doubt I’d lose something quite… |
July 1st, 2011
Artist Builds a Room Out of PC Parts
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I have about six different computers around here along with a hoard of old hardware that is just crammed into boxes. Artist Marek Tomasik has taken three years of his old computer parts and used them to make a room that is creepy, cool, and reminds me of the Borg… |
June 15th, 2011
KRE-O Transformers Construction Toys Look Awesome
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I played with LEGOs all the time as a kid and the construction blocks have been around for years. There are other construction brands that are similar to LEGO on the market, and Hasbro has announced a new competing offering called KRE-O. The new construction toys debut with a number… |
February 15th, 2011
