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Category Archives: Cool stuff
Arrr, it be Awesome
The room is also decked out with a rope bridge that connects the pirate ship to the top of a jail cell, and a rope suspended from the ship’s hull provides drop-in access to the closet. There’s also a completely hidden spiral slide, that lets you travel downstairs in a more adventurous way.
OK, so it puts a bookcase door to shame, but it’s professionally designed and built and probably cost beaucoup bucks.
Nightmares? Why Would I Have Nightmares?
Knifey-Spooney
That’s not recursion. This is recursion.
Zoom in on a striking weather-related photograph to reveal hundreds more photos making up the original. Then zoom again at each level for an endless array of images, each submitted by users to My Shot.
The Fascinating Forbidden Closet of Mysteries
Secret play room uses armoire as hidden doorway
Cool. Next time I’m home I’ll have to remember to document and post the secret compartments my dad built into the house; he converted our attic into a bedroom, and the crawl spaces have a secret door.
Die Hard
TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosqitoes Dead
Myhrvold demonstrated a “Death Star” laser gun designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight. The device was crafted from parts purchased on eBay by scientists at Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.
Video here: High Speed Videography of Mosquitoes
The third video is the best one, showing the critters being smoked. Literally.
Someone has an Idea
A while back, gg explained Earnhsaw’s theorem and the application to magnetic levitation; you can’t trap a dipole with static fields. But that’s OK, because you want a time-varying field so that you can transfer the energy via induction. The bulb is modified to do this.
another h/t to Buzz’s owner
Musical Stairs
We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do.
Look it Up on the Way Down
AT Europe: London Close-up – The Amazing Staircase
Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome.
Do We Have Clearance, Clarence?
Long exposures of bugs under a street light.
Oh, this is just TFC. I expect I will be staking out a streetlight with my DSLR in the near future.