Unstoppable Force, Immovable Object
Mack Truck vs. Concrete Barrier.
From the video’s comments (I’m not sure why):
Why does everyone here hate Chuck Norris all of the sudden?
I think Mary will like this video.
homemade flying hovercraft
Only $13,000!
Ji Yong-Ho, Tire Art
oldest known flying car up for auction
in its so-called anchor corridor
An underwater survey in preparation for a gas pipeline has revealed dozens of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea, some of them a thousand years old.
Due to its low temperatures and oxygen levels, the Baltic Sea is known as an ideal environment for conserving shipwrecks, which can remain virtually unblemished for hundreds and even thousands of year.
The Martin Jetpack
The jetpack is made from carbon fiber, with a touch of kevlar in the rotors, and generates 600lbs of thrust. Because the center of gravity is below the “center of thrust” (a notional point between the engines), it is self-righting: if the pilot lets go of the controls, he hovers steadily in one spot. Unlike other sci-fi vehicles, the jetpack doesn’t require plutonium or even garbage for power. Instead, it runs on ordinary gasoline, chugging down around 10 gallons per hour (a full tank of five gallons will give you half an hour of flight time, enough to get you to the office).
It’s safe, “affordable”, and best of all is classified as an ultralight so it requires no pilot license. The future is almost here, I suppose.
Chip Foose John Deere Tractor
the traffic women of North Korea
Their uniforms, it is said, were designed by Kim Jong II. They rotate only counter-clockwise.
Tampa StripperMobile Grounded
FYI
StripperMobile, the strip club on wheels, will not return to the streets of Tampa Friday night as originally planned.
BERU F1 Systems’ Factor 001
What happens when F1 designers apply themselves to road bikes?
Without having to comply to the regulations of any particular cycling series, BERU was able to start from scratch and design the bike the way they best saw fit. The carbon fiber monocoque frame is painstakingly built according to the customer’s specifications and measurements and features carbon-ceramic brakes and an LCD touch-screen that displays biometrics and various other readings.
BERU will only produce a few hundred examples of the Factor 001, which may come down more to the time factor: each example takes six engineers a week to build.
from the comments
He gave us a real good deal on a Massey Ferguson front axle spindle. Straight shooter. Love him and his wife. His breath stinks from the diabetes though.
Maserati Quattroporte Hearse
two wheel mustang
The Necker Nymph
Richard Branson has commissioned an underwater airplane.
“Gliding on the water’s surface like an aeroplane on a runway, one of the three pilots will operate the joystick to smoothly dive down.”
Alexander Christoff, the F1 Chair
For Deron
…Aero-Ace, a collaborative design project, just completed with Bentley — the objective being to explore a new aerodynamic design direction for the luxury marque. Second year RCA students were asked to identify a new vehicle direction for Bentley that would appeal to the ecologically conscious consumer.
Does it do it for you?
The Camper Bike
fyi
Solar Impulse
Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss pilot, will fly his solar powered airplane around the world.
“We believe that if an airplane can fly around the world with no fuel, nobody can say after that it’s impossible to do it for cars, for heating systems, for air-conditioning, for computers and so on,” he said.
Trexa, build your own electric vehicle
Built with carbon steel tubing, aluminum and fiber-reinforced thermoplastics, the modular Trexa platform can contain enough lithium iron phosphate battery modules to carry you 105 miles with dual motors capable of reaching 60 miles per hour in eight seconds. Top speed is a claimed 100 mph. It has impact-absorbing front, rear and side safety structures to help protect you whether you have it outfitted as a city commuter or have it adorned for the weekend with a pickup truck app. There is a 6 kW charger built-in that allows it to go from flat to full in four hours but they also allow access to the main power bus so you could plug into a more powerful off-board rapid charger or, if you want to get fancy, attach a range-extender.
nanodragster
A team at Rice University built a nanocar dragster.
To make the new nanodragster, Tour’s team started with a previously built, off-the-shelf short axle and front wheel unit in their lab, which is sort of a nano-Monster Garage. They then chemically hooked this up to a pair of aligned hydrocarbon molecules called phenylene-ethynylene-the vehicle’s chassis. The rear axle came next and finally the buckyball wheels went on.
this feels more Texas to me
A driver whose SUV plunged into a Northern California creek after he was startled by his hands-free cell phone device escaped the sinking vehicle by blasting out the window with a handgun.
Imperial Cycles
photo out of context
Custom Bertelli Bicycles
via coudal