Random Awesome Things

Jeff,

THAT IS FREAKIN AWESOME! Holy sh*t. I'm speechless. Not only are you the Minister of Silly Walks, but you are also the Minister of Awesome. Nice job on finding this stuff dude.

Awesome thing of the day: go to google. Play some pacman.

(Yes, I know it's a bit late)

but they haven't taken it down yet!

holy CRAP that's cool. They don't say how they're controlled. It says "autonomous" but what is it actually doing?

If the lathe at Tech is Gigantor, this one is definitely something like Galactus:

IMMA CHARGING MAH
http://gizmodo.com/5552290/hows-the-navy-kill-drones-with-one-ginormous-laser-gun

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-06/worlds-first-dna-based-logic-gates-could-lead-injectable-bio-computers

I've found a vehicle more impractical than the Batpod!

The most advanced electric motorcycle in the world:

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2010-06/inside-story-motoczysz-e1pc-worlds-most-advanced-electric-motorcycle

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article505813.ece/German-student-attacks-Hell-rsquo-s-Angels-with-puppy

Cant get more random, or awesome. I wish I knew this guy.

hahahahaha wow. that definitely made me laugh.

Force feedback [video game] motion controller:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/18/forcetek-xio-the-gaming-controller-that-hurts-you-not-the-tv/

The Southern Lights [aurora australis], as seen from the International Space Station:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS023&roll=E&frame=58455

Can has robot feets.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/bionic-cat-walks-on-prosthetic-legs/

aww

Water Powered Jet Pack!!

Multilayered projection screen made of falling water droplets

Pool Playing Robots & Robo-boat Competitions

The Making of Tony Stark's hologram effects in Iron Man 2 [contains spoilers]
(And I'm feeling especially clever right now, because I just figured out how to make something like those holograms IRL [would need a crapload of computing power to run though])

I LOVE IRON MAN!

I've always wanted to know how they made the holographics for it but i figured it was just green screens and computer graphics. Nice link man.

...(wispers) i love you tony stark.

You want to know what else is awesome? Google
Not that they're not usually awesome but today's homepage (July 4th) has a rube goldberg experiment and it's pretty cool.

seriously what is that 20 times more powerful than your other laser

im just gonna guess im not allowed to play with this one

ya danger