When one thinks of sand art, sand castles are what often comes to mind, but Tibetan Buddhist monks have long designed magnificent mandalas out of colored sand, for which Iranian artists have put a new spin to – famous for their traditional Persian rugs, a group of artists have taken it to a whole new [...]

Have Feet, Will Fly!

Determined Jessica Cox has overcome her fear of flying and a profound disability to become the first person ever to pilot a plane using only her feet. The 25-year-old graduate was forced to improvise after a genetic defect resulted in her being born without any arms.
But Ms Cox, who holds a double [...]

 
Suspension Cables Shot By A Rocket
A big head-scratcher when building a suspension bridge is how to get those suspension cables from one end of the divide to the other. In the past, helicopters and boats have been employed for this purpose – even kites – but Chinese engineers constructing the Siduhe Grand Bridge had another [...]

 
 Test of the new motor from ETH Zurich’s Department of Power Electronics exceeds 1,000,000 rpm in the digital readout.
Industrial motors can spin at a head-spinning 250,000 revolutions per minute. But a new matchbook-sized motor runs circles around the competition.

Thrilling

Last year, the project Thrill the World brought 1722 people together around theLast year, the project Thrill the World brought 1722 people together around the world for a simultaneous Thriller dance. The event was repeated Saturday, with 3960 zombie dancers participating! The largest group was in Austin, Texas, where 881 dancers did the Thriller dance [...]

 
After cosmic energy releasing stones, we now have an animated cosmic energy card that apparently betters your physical and emotional self by applying visualization techniques.

 
Miners in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world’s largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.

The past two weeks have seen some of the biggest names in finance brought to their knees. The bailout of AIG followed bankruptcy at Lehman Brothers, the sale of brokerage house Merrill Lynch and the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasi-public mortgage buyers. So with all that going on, [...]

 
A pilot has successfully landed an aircraft in the Antarctica using night-vision goggles, a feat hailed on Saturday as historic and could lead to year-round flights to the frozen continent.

 
 ”Wall” Stadium nicknamed “The Laptop”
When the new “Wall” Stadium set to be built in Doha, Qatar is completed in 2010, it will be the first underground stadium ever constructed. Nicknamed “The Laptop” for obvious reasons, the stadium will have no traditional floodlights. Instead, the lights will be embedded into the architecture, which adds to the [...]

That’s One Heck of A Squash!
I’m not familiar with a vegetable called a marrow (it seems to be some kind of squash), but this one is apparently the biggest ever at 113 pounds! There were lots of huge vegetables at a giant vegetable show in England.
The skin is craggy and dark, indicating it might not [...]

 
Why do people prefer flight to train? The reasons are many. One major reason is timing. Generally, flights take very less time to cover greater distance. Gone are the days.

 
 Picture is comprised of Envisat ASAR mosaics of the Arctic Ocean and highlights the changes in sea ice between June and mid-August 2008. The dark grey color represents ice-free areas while blue represents areas covered with sea ice.
Following last summer’s record minimum ice cover in the Arctic, current observations from ESA’s Envisat satellite suggest that [...]

A REALLY Big One!

Thousands of people from across the West Midlands have succeeded in their attempt to break the world record to create the biggest ever photo mosaic. Nearly 113,000 people from across the region sent in photographs between January and June connected to their daily lives.
The photos have been used to create a giant [...]

Just Slightly Larger Than The US Budget Deficit

Pictured here is a massive diamond mine in Mirna, Siberia.  It measures 525 m deep and 1.25 km in diameter.  The suction from the hole is so powerful that helicopters flying over it have crashed!

 
Would Seeing This Make you Want To Buy More?
Camper opened a new store in Milan developed by Jaime Hayon. It is located on Via Montenapoleone which is without a doubt the most demanding display in the city….

 
“Ice Age All Over Again” -tjames
Ice Sculptures in Fairbanks, Alaska
These were all taken in Ice Sculptures in Fairbanks, Alaska and other cities…. more pics below..

Great or Gross Ice Cream?

The city of Yokohama has marked the 130th anniversary of the arrival of ice cream in Japan with a festival showcasing exotic regional varieties including eel, raw horse, curry, crab and potato.
Yokohama Ice Cream Expo attracted thousands of fans before it closed yesterday (SUN), according to organiser Manabu Matsumoto, who identified [...]

A Lotta Java!

Now that is a large cup of coffee! Vinacafe Bien Hoa, Vietnam’s largest coffee producer, has just been awarded a new Guinness World Record for the largest coffee cup:
 

 
 Edible Gold Leaf
Forget the $12,000 Knish, $1,000 ice cream sundae, White truffles, Caviar, and Saffron. According to a recent list compiled by Fortune Small Business, a magazine part of the media conglomerate CNN-Time Warner group, world’s most expensive food is Edible gold leaf.

 
If you’re a member of the Long Now Foundation, you think about vast spans of time. That’s why the futurist think tankers put a 0 before every year to show how cool and forward-thinking they are (for example, this year is 02008). They’ve decided to build a huge mechanical clock on a piece of Nevada [...]

Lucky Winner

Roland Cernat, a graduate form the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd/Germany, has designed an environmentally friendly plane called the Oriens. Oriens is a motor glider concept based on the cradle-to-cradle principle. The design won first prize this year at the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award 2008.

 
 
In Dubai, they’re doing things big these days. Big hotels, big palm tree islands, big wallets, and very soon, big $281 million fountains. The biggest one in the world, in fact, and it will be large enough to give the famed fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas an inferiority complex.

Record Breaking Feet

My, that’s a lot of foot massages! Taiwan has set a new Guinness World Record for having the “most people receiving foot massage (reflexology) simultaneously”: 1008 reflexologists and 1008 tourists joined in the fun.

 
Indoor Golf Arena
If you have read your classics with diligence, you would remember the little boy who saved Holland from the sea. Sticking his tiny little finger into a hole in the dyke, he saved his countrymen from the cold ocean waters.