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Amazing Darth Vader Sculpture Made from Grandma’s Old Cutlery
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Take a careful look at this bust of the Dark Lord of the Sith. Notice anything strange about it? Gaze deeply into Vader’s eyes. Look closer, and you’ll notice that it’s made from various bits and bobs of found junk from the cutlery drawer (and other antique stuff from your… |
December 23rd, 2011
Mysterious Space Ball in Namibia is a Pressure Vessel
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Somehow, I missed most of the hubbub over this mysterious ball that is said to have fallen from the sky and landed in Namibia. It looks rather like a canon ball. It seems that while the ball may have in fact fallen from space and crashed into the ground in… |
December 23rd, 2011
Tom Samui’s Junk Elf: from Recycled Car Parts, Not from Rivendell
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Swiss artist Tom Samui has been creating junkyard wonders for the last decade or so. He works with a team of 15 people creating these amazing sculptures made out of recycled automobile parts, like this intricate elf: Tom has created hundreds of these sculptures, entirely made out of scrap car… |
November 28th, 2011
Thai Sculptor Transforms Scrap Cars Into Massive Transformer Sculptures
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What is it about Transformers that gets people so juiced up? I don’t know, but maybe it’s all of those hours watching the animated series back when we were all kids. Check out these massive Transformers sculptures that measure between 8 and 19 feet-tall. … |
June 16th, 2011
Computer Parts Robot Has Intel and AMD in Its Bloodstream
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I always wonder what to do with all the bits and pieces of obsolete technology I have lying around. Sure, I donate what I can to schools, but I’ve even been turned down there when the tech is too old or unwieldy. Maybe I should do what Mike over at… |
March 28th, 2011
Scrap Metal Transformers Join Megatron
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Remember the Chinese dude who built himself a 5-ton Megatron? Well, the man going by the nickname “Steel Legend” is back and he’s made a bunch more scrap metal Transformers, from Autobots to Decepticons. He sure love robots. And these robots sure love junk!… |
March 23rd, 2011
NASA Studying Ground Laser for Orbital Clean Up
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NASA is tired of all that space junk that’s orbiting our planet. The myriad of broken satellites and other junk orbiting poses a hazard to functioning satellites that are in orbit. A tiny little chunk of anything traveling at orbital speeds is enough to destroy a satellite and possibly harm… |
March 15th, 2011
Lockwasher Robot Sculptures Whirr Their Way Into Our Hearts
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Lockwasher creates these amazing robotic sculptures using objects that he found. I like the BR2D2, which is also called the BeertooD2, made from an old can of Heineken back in 2008. A second model, the BeertooD3 was created last year. Since then, Lockwasher has been busy working on new robots.… |
July 30th, 2010
Optimus Prime Gets Real
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I guess the guys in China felt they had to try and keep up with Japan and their gigantic robot creations, and built themselves an enormous Optimus Prime of their own. Standing 32-feet tall, and residing just North of the Bird’s Nest at Beijing’s Olympic Park, the giant Transformer might… |
July 15th, 2010
Buy This Metal Yoda, You Will.
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Created entirely from old bits of metal and scrap parts, this diminutive (but life-size) Yoda sculpture looks awesome. Handmade by Bangkok artist Yumi Modal, the only thing better would be if the little metal guy’s lightsaber actually lit up – but whaddya want for scrap metal? Of course, Yoda is… |
June 23rd, 2010
