What Were They Thinking

Cardboard Tube Bridge

We have all seen the Popsicle stick bridges that can hold some heavy weights. This cardboard tube bridge takes bridge building to the next level! “Weighing 7.5 tonnes, the bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubes, each 11.5 centimetres (four inches) across and 11.9 millimetres thick. The steps are recycled paper and plastic and the foundations wooden boxes packed with sand. Balloons filled with 1.5 tonnes of water were used

Tank Limo

Seems like limos are getting more outrageous all the time. A stretched Hummer is no longer one of the coolest limos out there since the Tank Limo is on the scene. “So were about ready three crew and up to 8 passengers “cant wait to see the faces of the limo drivers in London as we track past them congestion charge exempt”, were all practicing the royal wave to taunt

Robo Flush Toilet

If you want some robotic assistance to flush the toilet this Robo Flush Toilet that Joe from Grand Idea Studio put together may be just the ticket. Video after the jump. Via: Make

Disposable Camera Mods

Our friends over at DIY Live have come up with a top 10 list of Disposable Camera Mods, my favorite is the mini rail gun mod. ” This is a fun and non-dangeros project for those people who like to throw projectiles magnetically. It simply works by placing a ferromagnetic projectile at one end of a coil and pulsing some power in it. The trick is to switch off power

Light LEDs in a Hot Dog

Have you ever seen LEDs powered through a hot dog before? Well Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has been having some fun running some juice through a hot dog and lighting LEDs that were simply stuck into the hot dog. “If you’re *not* going to eat the hot dog, a neat trick is to stick a bunch of standard LEDs into it. (Yes, this really works!) Apparently the voltage between nearby

Text-Based YouTube Video Player for Linux

  Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! “This is a concept video depicting how users can surf and even watch videos from youtube with out the use of a Graphical User Interface. The operating System is linux