January 2007

Car With Twin Jet Engines For Sale On eBay

If you are looking to make a car mod that will keep people from riding your bumper this is one solution. Instead of modding your own car you could just buy this one. “WORLD’S ONLY JET CAR WITH TWIN JET ENGINES 2 – T58 General electric Jet engines with afterburners Ready to race !” Via: OhGizmo

Touch - an urban interactive installation

If you are ever in Brussels, this building is a must see. “Touch is a project by the Belgian digital design and art lab, LAb[au], Laboratory for Architecture and Urbanism. The project takes as a starting point Brussels’ 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows can be individually colour-enlightened, by RGB-led bars, turning the façade into an immense display. Instead of considering this infrastructure as a flat screen

Canadians create special gloves for gadget lovers

Stay warm and still be cool 🙂 with a pair of these gloves. “It’s freezing outside, especially if you live in blizzard areas, and touching the talk button on the cellphone with big bulky gloves is a daily problem we all face. Fortunately for us, a company in Montreal has solved the problem of operating all your gadgets while keeping your hands warm. The glove is called iTWYF or, I

Light Bulb in Microwave

  Jusk like putting a CD in a microwave, light bulbs are also fun. There are quite a few good videos of this effect on the net, here is another good bulb explosion. “I guess the last Light Bulb ROBODINNER was not big enough for Roborobot DXL-2000 RS Series 5 Robot so he came back for seconds and decided to do the 250watt 220Volt commercial grade beast fresh out of

Water Cooling Computers With a Swimming Pool

Looks like this may be a new form of pool heating. “This rig has been running successfully since 8/06 (knock knock). Computers have been easily swapped out without the need to shut down the pump or any other computers on the line. There is no perceptible temperature difference in the water returned to the pool. However, every machine on the line happily operates somewhere between 30 – 40 C depending

Bicycle Lift

  When there is a problem I love the creative solutions that result. Read more here. “Hilly cities normally have a low share of cycling. How come that Trondheim, the third largest city of Norway, has the highest share of cycling compared to all the other Norwegian cities? We believe there are there reasons: 1. Trondheim is a university city with 30 000 students, 90 % of whom using their

Inside the Triforium Control Center

The Triforium is interesting looking, but the old control room for it is amazing! This old tech is fascinating, I can’t imagine writing code using paper tape. 🙂 Eecue.com had the opportunity to have a tour of the old control room (it has since been replaced by a modern control system). “The Triforium is the name of a six story 60 ton public sculpture in the Los Angeles Mall Civic