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LEGO Mechatronic Wings: Mindstorms Give You Wings

In 2014, fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht made a robotic spider dress that can brandish its spiky appendages when something comes too close to the wearer. Anouk’s new wearable wings have a similar feature. Since they’re made with LEGO, they’re easier to build than the arachnid-inspired armor. The wings are mainly…

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Steampunk Guinea Pig Wings: Because Etsy

Turn your guinea pig into a steampunk superhero with these awesome leather and brass wings. Silvia Ferreira makes custom steampunk clothing and owns SkyPirate Creations. She wants to outfit your furry little pet in adorable superhero/fantasy wear.…

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Schwings Give Your Shoes Wings, But Not the Ability to Fly

I think people go through a phase in life where all they start wishing for the impossible. Like X-ray vision or an actual cloak that’ll make people invisible. Or maybe even a super power, like being able to read minds or fly. It is with this premise that I introduce…

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Bird Man Flies with Homemade Wings?

Jarno Smeets is either one bad-ass geek or a bold-faced liar. This dude appears to have created one of my lifelong dreams using kite fabric and engineering prowess. Smeets has built for himself and one pair of flapping wings that apparently allow him to actually fly like a bird. I…

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Wings Askew: Why Does This Fly?

Yep, this was a real plane that was created by NASA and it’s called the AD-1. It’s got these strange oblique wings that are turned 60-degrees across its fuselage. The main question is why was this done and how could it fly?…

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Wooden Ladybug Speaker Spreads Its Wings

At first glance, you wouldn’t think this hat-box shaped container would be a sound system, but it is. The cylindrical wooden box conceals compact stereo speakers perfect for your computer or media player. Volume and power controls are concealed beneath a set of flaps reminiscent of a ladybug’s wings, but…

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Radio Controlled Pterodactyl Flaps Wings to Fly

Here’s the ultimate modern stone age gadget. It’s a remote controlled winged lizard that actually gets airborne by flapping its wings. Instead of using some sort of propeller or engine, this guy just uses good old fashioned wing power. The $69 R/C Flying Pterosaur can fly indoors or out, and…

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Tag: Wings

LEGO Mechatronic Wings: Mindstorms Give You Wings

Steampunk Guinea Pig Wings: Because Etsy

Schwings Give Your Shoes Wings, But Not the Ability to Fly

Bird Man Flies with Homemade Wings?

Wings Askew: Why Does This Fly?

Wooden Ladybug Speaker Spreads Its Wings

Radio Controlled Pterodactyl Flaps Wings to Fly

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