Redefining the flying car
What exactly is a flying car?
My life is a bit unusual in that I often have conversations with people about the topic of flying cars. Since I was a child I dreamed about the day that we would have flying cars. But, other than the vague notion of the flying car that George […]

Neil Young as Spiderman

62-year-old rocker Neil Young has been honored with his own species, a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.

 
Talent from unlikely places may be the key to new thinking
Professor Stephen Hawking, who has devoted his career to finding the origins of the universe, is to begin a new search - for Africa’s answer to Einstein.
Despite suffering from motor neurone disease which has left him almost completely paralysed, Hawking, 66, has made the journey […]

Drawing on a background that ranges from experience as an aerospace technician to a stint in research and development on the Williams F1 team, Marcus Cunnington has designed and built the 6.3kg (around 13.9 pounds) Free Spirit - a carbon fiber composite design that claims the mantle of the world’s lightest manual rigid wheelchair.

Most cool cats prefer watching commercial free DVRs 

A DoubleClick Performics survey of Internet users in the US found that although DVR users are watching more television, they are not paying attention to commercials, as cited byAdweek.
Overall, 85% of DVR owners said they watched fewer commercials since getting a DVR.
 

The War On Drugs Has Many Names…
The New Yorker’s “Drug War Bulletins” are sure to boil your blood: a man who died for want of a liver transplant because the hospital insisted he needed “drug treatment” for his medical marijuana use; a suburban San Diego housewife who will spend the next 20 years in jail […]

 
 Paul Loughridge of Lockwasher Design makes awesome robots, ray guns, and rockets out of vintage cans and other found objects.  

 
 Hotel Everland, the creation of Swiss artists Sabina Lang & Daniel Baumann, on the roof of Palais de Tokyo is an art consisting of an actual one-room hotel. It offers 1970’s-style glamour, a turquoise-tiled bathroom, a record player with a collection of vinyl discs, & a spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower but remember no TV. […]

 
 
Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
 

 
 Are you on the hunt for some completely unique personalized and superb gift for that special person on that special day? What say about gifting a wonderful retro jukebox? Check out the vintage AMI 200Jukebox.    

Stick ‘em Where The Sun DOES Shine

Remember when the stamp became self-adhesive? It made stamp glue aftertaste a thing of the past. Well now technology is so advanced that even Solar Panel have been designed to be self-adhesive. That’s right! A peel and stick solar panel is now on the solar panel option list.

David Byrne’s latest art project turns an entire building into a instrument: