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World’s Largest Bus Holds 300 Eco-Minded City Commuters
2012-01-24 16:00:41
If you’ve ever ridden on a city bus, you know what an…um, “interesting” assortment of people you’ll find there. And that’s just on a regular city bus – imagine how many more extreme personalities could fit on the Superliner Youngman JNP6250G, the world’s largest public transport bus. At 82 feet long (39 feet longer than standard [...]...
 
Heads Up! Texting and Walking: There’s an App For That
2012-01-24 10:00:38
Ever since everyone started carrying phones around and texting their friends 20 hours a day, there’s been a steep rise in sidewalk collisions (probably). It’s not easy to see that light post coming up in front of you when there’s a screen permanently installed a few inches in front of your face. That is, until [...]...
 
Stormy African Skies Give ISS Astronauts Thrilling View
2012-01-23 16:00:45
Lightning is incredible enough when we see it from the Earth, but seeing it from space? Absolutely phenomenal. This short video of a lightning storm over Africa was shot on December 29th from the International Space Station. The time lapse shows a sped up period of 15 minutes, ending with a spectacular sunrise. Even more [...]...
 
Specialty Mobility Van Opens Up Just For Wheelchair Users
2012-01-23 10:00:03
People who are confined to wheelchairs often have to depend on wheelchair lifts to get into and out of vehicles. Special modifications are then needed to allow the wheelchair users to drive. So far, there haven’t been many attempts to create a wheelchair-specific vehicle. This specialty vehicle designed by LeJuan Richardson is a leap forward [...]...
 
Double-Decker Chair Armrest Heads off Waiting Room Misery
2012-01-22 16:00:42
Having relatively large egos and short tempers, we tend to get very annoyed when sitting in any shared-armrest kind of situation. Airplanes, movie theaters, waiting rooms…they’re all enough to cause conniption fits. The Paperclip Armrest concept from designer James Lee is a surprisingly simple answer to the widespread problem of who gets the armrest. The [...]...
 
Use the Farce: Star Wars Goes Retro With Silent Fight Scene
2012-01-22 10:00:26
George Lucas famously made a bunch of prequels to the original Star Wars trilogy that were widely regarded as terrible, terrible films. But the below pre-prequel is a fantastic addition to the Star Wars universe. The spoof film recreates one of the most dramatic moments in the entire Star Wars franchise…but it does it in [...]...
 
Snot a Bad Idea: Nostril Insert Illuminates Your Nose-Holes
2012-01-21 10:00:06
One of the reasons we love Japan is that it seems to be a never-ending source of truly bizarre inventions that make very little sense to anyone. Noda Akira‘s LED nostril light does not disappoint; it is one of the weirdest designs to ever come out of any country. He says that when it is [...]...
 
Custom Electric Bike Camper for Short Jaunts to the Beach
2012-01-20 10:00:00
In general, taking a bike trip means that you have to pack rather lightly. But the Golden Gate, created by Jay Nelson, gives you the eco-friendly benefits of an electric bike along with a gigantic cargo space for lugging around all of the comforts of home…well, almost. The Golden Gate is composed of an electric [...]...
 
Plastic Digital Video Camera Captures Magic of 8MM Movies
2012-01-19 16:00:10
Film 8MM video cameras haven’t been the standard for quite a long time, so they’ve built up a sort of cult following among people who enjoy retro gadgets. Fuuvi is catering to those retrophiles with a cute little digital video camera that looks just like one of the hand-held 8MM cameras of old. The digital [...]...
 
Modern Antique: Classic Atari Transformed into iPhone Dock
2012-01-19 10:00:30
Everybody loves Atari, but with all of the super-high-tech games out now it might be hard to find time for those classics from the 80s. Etsy seller and audio tinkerer Daniel McLeod built this rad iPhone dock out of an Atari 2600 console that was originally built in November 1980. The subwoofer couldn’t fit inside [...]...
 
 
 
 
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