Categories: Weird Tags: extreme, flexibility
Born to be Wild
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American retired
professional basketball NBA player of the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls,
Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks. He is also an actor. Nicknamed “Dennis the
Menace” and “The Worm”, he was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding ability.
Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA
Defensive Player of the Year twice. He led the National Basketball Association in rebounds
per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA Championships (1989,
1990, 1996, 1997, 1998). Rodman is also well-known for his numerous controversial antics
on and off the court, such as sporting multiple piercings and dyeing his hair in artificial colors,
pursuing high-profile affairs with singer Madonna and Carmen Electra and for numerous
clashes with opponents, team mates and referees.
Categories: Celebrities Tags: rodman, wild
Real Transformers
This blog tracks the news about robotics advances in Japan. One company definitely
to watch for is TMSUK, which has quite an impressive line-up of robots for various
applications, with some even in use on campuses throughout Japan. The biggest of
the bunch is T-52 model: Is this roboton a mission to seek and destroy improperly
parked cars? Certainly the idea has been around longenough:T-52 however, is not
a nemesis to cars. Quite the opposite.
Pink Tentacle reports: “This is the giant rescue robot called T-52 Enryu (“Rescue
Dragon”). It has a bulldozer-like base and a 5-meter long arms that can lift cars stuck
in the snow. In the tests T-52 Enryu showed off its avalanche prevention skills by
removing accumulated snow from the edge of a cliff. The robot also demonstrated
its ability to extract a car buried under a bank of snow.”T-52 Enryu stands 3.45 meters
tall and weighs 5 tons.
Categories: Cool Tags: Transformers
Dolphin Submarine
Originally conceived in 1978 by Thomas Rowe the Bionic Dolphin has been in the making for
many years now. Development of the prototype didn’t even begin until 1988 but eventually in
September of 1992 the Dolphin made its first historic underwater ‘flight’.
Powered by a 400 horsepower small-block V8 (the same standard engine that powered the
2005 Corvette) the Bionic Dolphin can travel either on the surface of the water like a boat or
completely submerged like a submarine. While the current models are only single-seaters
Rowe has also designed a two-seat prototype that will serve as the production model.
The Bionic Dolphin was scheduled to go on sale in early 2006 with a price tag of around
$50,000 but looking at the website they still seem to be involved in the very important safety
-testing stages.
Categories: Interesting Tags: dolphin, submarine
After Burner
You all know for the “flamable” warning sticker from the backside of your monitor. I was
always thinking what an idiot put that silly warning over there. Well,now I see why this
sign exist… But the weirdest thing is that even monitor survived something like a real
“afterburner”it still works!!!
Wooden Phone
One Russian man builds new cases for mobile phones from apple tree wood.
He fully disassembles the new devices and carve a piece-of-art wooden cases
for them, each small part gets its own wooden case – the antenna, the sim-card,
the battery.
A battery is hidden inside a wooden bar.
A sim-card comes in the smaller bar.
And antenna is also… wooden.
And the author believes that sooner or later gadget
manufacturers wood turn to wood too.
Categories: Interesting Tags: mobile, phone, wood