| Kanja Chen made this gosh darn cute Darth Maul puppet. Link |
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Want to start your very own Google Print? Then you need Kirtas Technologies' APT BookScan 1200. This cool machine can scan your book at a breakneck speed of 1200 pages per hour! It has a 16.6 megapixel camera and it costs $150k. Link | Video (via Red Ferret) |
From the website: "Surprise and amuse your guests by offering a chilled beverage from Motoart's "Get Bombed" table. Hand crafted from a rare WWII Navy practice bomb and a B-52 jet engine turbine fan, it is artfully combined with a mirror and 1/2" green glass table-top. Custom metallic powder coat colors available. This is a very limited edition piece." Price? A mere $4,900. Link |
| Cathie Jung wore her first corset for her wedding in 1959. Now she wears it 24/7, and when it becomes loose fitting, she would wear a smaller one. The result? She now has a 15-inch waist. Link to Cathie's website (take a look at the X-ray pics!) Notably, she doesn't have the world record on smallest waist ever. This belongs to Ethel Granger (13-inch). Link to Ethel's website. |
| This tower of sugary cubeyness is Rachel Whiteread's Embankment, shown at the Tate Modern in London. Link | How it was built |
The danger of glue sniffing, according to Moscow's Wax Figure Exhibition. (Don't miss Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury wax figure!) http://www.mosnews.com/images/p/12068.shtml |
| Michel Gagné's fifth book "Insanely Twisted Rabbits" has a pretty cool collection of what else, insanely twisted rabbit pics! Link (Thanks Tony!) |
| Nicholas Jones is an Australian artist who sculpts artwork out of old books he found at the bins of the University of Melbourne library. http://www.spacement.com.au/artist.php?id=42 (via The Nightwatchman - Thanks Glenn!) |
You've seen it a thousand times in the movie: shooting a lock off. So, how hard can it be? Answer: very, very hard, as shown by this experiment: the Locks O' Truth (via Attu Sees All) |
Amos Latteier when he built this "Prosthetic Ass" for the 2000 Science Faire at the Old Lab, Portland, OR. He was inspired by a cartoon of a donkey robot that would walk behind a user carrying heavy loads. Link (via Grow-a-Brain) |
Hazards of a turkey fryer: http://www.ul.com/consumers/turkeys.html (via Boing Boing). Stay safe this Thanksgiving, folks! |
| Michael Chu's Cooking for Engineers website described how you can smoke a turkey while steaming it from the inside with an open beer can. Link |
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