The Mustang Bullitt is cool. But it would be cool whether it was called the Bullitt or the 5.0 SVO or the GT Dark Green Edition. Its coolness is innate and not tied to the time Steve McQueen ripped up the streets of San Francisco in a mean green Mustang back in 1968. It’s a curious marketing move, when you ponder it for more than a second. I mean, BMW doesn’t offer an M5 Ronin and Ferrari doesn’t build a 488 Spider The Rock....
Media Platforms Design Team When a woman gets on the bus to go to the hospital in the Fringe episode “The Road Not Taken,” things get hot—literally. Her breath steams up windows and a newspaper on the seat in front of her starts to smoke. Frantic, she runs off the bus and bursts into flame, then explodes. Walter Bishop, the mad scientist in Fringe’s motley crew of researchers and FBI agents, pinpoints a legendary phenomenon as the cause: Spontaneous Human Combustion....
Japanese researchers from the Osaka Institute of Technology have developed little pebbles of glue that stay dry until they’re crushed. It’s a brilliant solution to the problem of glue drying before you’re ready, or getting everywhere you don’t want it.The trick to keeping the glue from adhering to whatever it touches is a thin coating of calcium-carbonate nanoparticles. Within the outer coating is a liquid latex adhesive. Crush the pebbles and the adhesive absorbs the nanoparticles to create a strong glue....
Scientists at Rice University have found a way to use electricity to transform everyday trash into graphene, a valuable material in electronics, the solar industry, and even in drug delivery and DNA sequencing. The team is able to produce kilograms of graphene daily. Earlier methods for producing the material turned up mere picograms.On Monday, their results were published in the scientific journal Nature.Carbon may be the building block of life, but it’s also a building block inside a whole bunch of our trash, from the carbon black in tires to banana peels and plastic bags....
Car lovers have waited years for the return of one of the most beloved nameplates in recent automotive history, the Toyota Supra. Now, we’ve finally seen Toyota’s vision for the car that will become the 2020 Supra, which was built in partnership with BMW. The revived ride made its debut in January 2019 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. This much-anticipated ride comes to Toyota dealerships in the summer of 2019....
Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis apparently doesn’t think four movies coming out this year with his writing credit is enough. Instead, he’s apparently taken to writing Ghostbusters 3 fan fiction. The “skeleton” treatment, clocking in at about 4,700 words, is Landis’ idea of how to turn the original two Ghostbusters films with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray into a complete trilogy.The script sees the Ghostbusters gone from four guys in flight jumpsuits to a worldwide franchise that’s now teetering on bankruptcy, and reveals Slimer as a former cultist for Ivo Shandor....
Media Platforms Design TeamThere have been a few movies out now about self-made superheroes, like Kick-Ass. Were you aware of that, and if so, were you wary at all about making this film?I wrote my script in 2002, so it was around before all of those [other projects]. The first thing I heard about was Special, and I heard of Kick-Ass from Mark Millarwe’ve been email buddies for a long time....
JC Sheitan Tenet lost his arm 22 years ago, which stinks no matter what, but is especially rough if you’re a tattoo artist like him. But fellow French artist and engineer Gonzal partnered with Tenet to create not just a prosthetic replacement, but an arm that could tattoo. They recently gave a demonstration at Tattoo Motor Show 8, a convention in Devézieux, France.View full post on YoutubeThe idea started off as pure art, a kind of why-not kinetic sculpture....
Media Platforms Design TeamWhile so much space science and exploration attention has been focused on Mars in the last few years, Google wants to remind us that the moon is about to get awfully popular. Teams competing in their will send more than 20 rovers and spacecraft to our rocky satellite in the near future. Hoping to get us excited about all that impending traffic (and get kids and teens excited about engineering), the X PRIZE folks have put together a planetarium show that they’re giving away free to science domes around the world....
Religious tradition in some cultures and banned in others, tattoos have been a means of expression for thousands of years. Now, an archaeological study has discovered what appears to be the oldest tattooing artifact in western North America.Several indigenous tribes of North America carry long traditions of tattooing—English explorers were noting tattoos as early as the 1500s. Prior to that, finds in New Mexico have shown tattoo implements that date to between 1100 and 1280 A....
A viral video from last fall shows a protester in Hong Kong neutralizing a tear gas canister by trapping it in a thermos.As people in several U.S. cities gathered to protest police violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death this weekend, some officers have deployed tear gas to disperse protesters. Here, a tear gas expert weighs in on the ways to neutralize the chemical agent. This weekend, tens of thousands of people have gathered in various cities across the U....
On Sale Date: NowPrice: $6999 to $8999Competitors: Triumph Tiger 800, Kawasaki Versys, Suzuki V-Strom 650 ABSPowertrains: 670-cc parallel-twin, 6-speed manual/6-speed dual-clutch automatic EPA Fuel Economy: 61 mpg (manual), 64 mpg (dual-clutch automatic)What’s New: The Honda NC700X boasts a dual-clutch transmission and a 670-cc engine to go along with new features such as the integrated storage compartment and its enduro-inspired bodywork. The optional-clutch lever-free gearbox was derived from the DN-01 and is aimed at newer riders; it works like a traditional dual-clutch unit with a default D setting or an S mode for sportier shift patterns....
Media Platforms Design TeamRobert Lange’s Electric-Powered Motorcycle We thought we’d found the cream of the crop when we published last year’s DIY Rally—a roundup of 2007’s top gonzo projects from our readers’ backyards. But when we reconnected with our winners recently, we discovered there’s no invention that can’t be improved upon. Here’s a totally new project from one of our inventors, plus a few creations that are getting a face lift....
While drones are poised to change the worlds of commerce and food delivery, perhaps we should be focusing on how they can change the world of luxury as well. That’s the premise of this ingenious Netherlands-based Dutch insurance ad: drone-powered hammocks.View full post on YoutubeThe idea is as simple as it is beautiful. It’s a hammock that not only can move, but can float just about anywhere. The problem, of course, would be building a series of drones that could hold up a person’s weight—most commercial drones can’t carry more than ten pounds, those that can are built for heavy duty cameras....
When Aerospace giants like Boeing and Airbus reveal some ambitious concept for the future of urban aerial transport, most showcase electrically powered variations on multicopters and hybrid aircraft, sketched out with familiar components like rotors and wings. But the Russian engineers have another idea entirely. Known as a cyclogiro, cyclorotor, cyclocopter, or as some have called it an “egg-beater wing,” this aerial machine is the most exotic and ambitious vision yet....
Plenty of space station designs have been proposed over time. Only a few were flown. But one of NASA’s earliest concepts was also one of its most unique: a donut-shaped inflatable space module made of nylon cord and butyl elastomere. Intended to be carried up flat and then inflated in space, the Erectable Torus Manned Space Laboratory was first prototyped in 1961. Built by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, the craft was seen as a springboard to a future lunar mission and an orbital laboratory....
There’s being rich and then there’s being very rich. If you fall into the latter category, then this $85 million penthouse might be of interest. Of course, this is much more than just a penthouse in New York City. It also comes with an abundance of gloriously luxurious amenities that include a Hamptons rental good for a summer, not one but TWO Rolls-Royce Phantoms and a Lamborghini, a yacht, courtside Nets season tickets, a butler, a personal chef, weekly dinner for two at Michelin-rated French restaurant, Daniel, and even $2 million in construction allowances good for any renovations you may want to make....
Media Platforms Design TeamSo how has your digital life changed since the events of the movie? How have you adjusted your online habits based on what happened?I’ve finally had the excuse to make my online use less personal and more sort of general. My big concern right now is supporting my brother, Henry and the film that they’ve made, because I think as filmmakers they’re terrific. So, I’m using my Facebook profile, and I’ve started tweeting, but mostly because I want to use it as a promotional tool....
Media Platforms Design TeamSANTA MONICA, Calif. — It’s the biggest videogame conference in the country. But the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is also smaller than it’s been in years, down from 60,000 nerds of all shapes and affiliations to around 3000 invite-only journalists and business-types. The once-sprawling Los Angeles-based conference is now largely confined to a small (by previous years’ standards) building in Santa Monica, called the Hangar, plus a few meeting rooms....
Get ready to take photos of a whole bunch of signs just to see what they mean in other languages. The Google Translate app, which could previously figure out words from photos of seven different languages, just added 20 more for a grand total of 27 possible languages to translate into and from. That’s a whole lot of words.View full post on YoutubeHow does the app figure out all these languages and translate them?...
