The Switchblade
The revolutionary Switchblade™ three-wheeled Flying Motorcycle leads the field as the first of the new line of Multi Mode Vehicles (MMV) from Samson Motorworks to meet the growing demand for flying cars and roadable aircraft. (Pics)
 

Animal celebrities just love being in the spotlight
It has indeed been a normal week. If fact, its been so normal that it borders on the abnormal. But a normal week for us here at the Impact Lab is far from what others consider normal. So maybe normal is a relative term. And I’m pretty sure [...]

Sun glints off wave
This photographer is from Oahu, Hawaii, but he is gaining international fame.  He’s a surfer himself and often gets wiped out just getting the shot. You can see why! These incredible images of waves were taken by the number one photographer of surf, Clark Little.  (Pics)
 

New Orleans sits smack dab between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain, and when a hurricane comes rolling in, those bodies of water tend to spill into the streets. This summer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started construction on a barrier that can block a 16-foot swell blown in from the Gulf and [...]

Leonard DaVinci’s mechanical lion
A mechanical lion invented by Leonardo da Vinci to entertain the King of France has sprung back to life in the Renaissance genius’s last home.

Russian Cheerleaders – Establishing their own brand of elegance
Russian sports teams have long been some of the most competitive in the world, but the cheerleaders are just now making their way on to the world stage establishing a whole new style and provocative new standards. But they do add a whole new meaning to the [...]

This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you [...]

As the prophet foretold, the goat herders from the East will appear and
suddenly all of your tin cans will disappear
We are now dead center in the middle of photo season. Some think it is summer, others think it is vacation time, but more people dig out their cameras and start snapping more insanely ridiculous and boring [...]

Designed by Chrissy Conant, the Chrissy Skin Rug is actually a very personal creation by the designer, signifying her relationship with her parents or some other mommy-daddy-type issue. I’m more focused on how disturbing this thing is. (Pics)
 

Mother Nature can be both deadly and beautiful at the same time.  Nothing illustrates this better than a lightning storm.  (Pics)

This is definitely one of the coolest cameras we have seen on the Impact lab, the DORYU 2-16 Pistol Camera. (Pics)
 

A man and his dog
Are dogs man’s best friend?  Dogs see man as their leader, as their partner, and as their teacher, and because dogs place so much trust in man, he cannot help but love them as if they were his best friend. (Pics)

This new species seems to have developed an Adam’s apple
No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks.  That is an apple with a fish’s face on it. And yes, that’s a lion peeking out from a dandelion. (Pics)
 

Reaching for her head, she suddenly realized
she had forgotten to let her head sleep

Another week has passed and the number of truly exceptional photos has been increasing. Of course the way we rate photo quality is on a strange and bizarreness scale that few other mere mortals can comprehend. They have to be somewhat painfully [...]

This is kind of like saying birds of a feather flock together but with fish
This incredible wall of shimmering silver fish was captured by stunned divers who had been exploring a reef in the Philippines.

Bubbles engage the imagination and snare the attention of young and old alike.  Even our pets have a fascination with bubbles. (Pics)

Since July 2004, in the little town of Cochrane, northern Ontario (Canada), you can visit the Polar Bear Habitat, a kind of local zoo where people can live the once-in-a-lifetime experience of an outdoor swim with polar bears. (pics)
 

MercuryHouseOne
Rome, Toulouse and Munich practice Architecture and Vision have designed a pod-like mobile living room with a Carrara marble shell. (Pics)
 

Cant you just see cave women singing itsy bitsy spider to their children right before they run in fear from this spider on steroids
Early relatives of spiders that lived around 300 million years ago are revealed in new three-dimensional models, in research published August 5 in the journal Biology Letters.

Embroidery tattoo
Tattoos take many shapes and forms.  Glitch-Vixen posted pictures of her unique tribute tattoo on her flickr account recently. The girl used an embroidery that her grandmother made as the design for her back tattoo. (Pics)

” I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. ” – Gilda Radner.  Amazing photos of friendly dogs after the break.

There was a golden age when the expansive hood of the American automobile could double as a picnic table. Thankfully, engine compartments have conformed to smaller motors and superior aerodynamics, but why give up the pleasure of dining (or making out) on the hood of an American classic just because you drive a Honda Fit? [...]

Amazing art installations and building modifications
When does a building transform from a shell into a work of art within itself? Can artists improve even beautiful architectural wonders, turning them into something more creative and meaningful? Some architectural art installations are done out of necessity because the work is simply too large to be contained. Others use the [...]

Startling image of the newly discovered Soap Bubble Nebula has generated enormous excitement among astronomers
It may look as if a child’s soap bubble has strayed in front of a camera lens, but this extraordinary image from the heavens shows a newly discovered planetary nebula. (Pics)
 

Man’s best friend — so the saying goes, but a German study tells women that dogs make them more attractive to both sexes.  (Pics)