Random Awesome Things

I can't wait to buy one of these and of course there will be some mods. Can you say Home Defence System?

TED: Mosquito Shooting Laser
(skip to 9:42 unless you want to hear about malaria)

use it as a soldering iron

Ever wanted to know KFC's secret '11 Herbs & Spices' seasoning recipe so you could make your own? Well... check out the link (or rather the links in that article).

http://lifehacker.com/5323706/make-reverse+engineered-kfc-at-home

MRI images of fruit and vegetables

My favorite is broccoli.

Raytheon develops turret-mounted laser cannon, disintegrates 'rebel scum.'

And you guys were worried about the mosquito laser being too dangerous. Hehehehe.

Can has universal translator!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/22/new-mit-software-learns-an-entire-dead-language-in-just-a-few-ho/

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I present, the incredibly well-balanced (and just sufficiently bouncy) box:

THIS is exactly the sort of thing I think this group will enjoy!

rdubard wrote:

THIS is exactly the sort of thing I think this group will enjoy!

That is the greatest thing i have ever seen. I can die now.

hahaha that was great! I wanna try it....

rdubard wrote:

THIS is exactly the sort of thing I think this group will enjoy!

Link has died. Try this (flagged) video.

I'm guessing Youtube blocked the first one because it's DANGEROUS AS ALL HELL!!

(skip to 0:50 if you can't stand the suspense)

http://gizmodo.com/5612436/roll-over-your-faces-with-the-vertrax-treaded-skateboard

A Dining Table with a Top Speed of 130 MPH

http://gizmodo.com/5637776/watch-how-this-hologram-was-painted-with-an-ipad

Turning a Three-Ring Binder into small parts storage:
http://gizmodo.com/5640895/turn-3+ring-binders-into-the-ultimate-small-parts-storage

I bet at one point or another, we all fantasized about having a light saber like luke skywalker or at least han solo's blaster right? Well now you can buy a real blaster for only 2 grand!

Apparently it has a power cell that is good for 150 shots at full power, and, with a focusing lens can 'burn hot enough to make air explode at the focus point. That's right: They can kill the air itself.' -Cracked.com

http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm#_blank

SenaiERI wrote:

I bet at one point or another, we all fantasized about having a light saber like luke skywalker or at least han solo's blaster right? Well now you can buy a real blaster for only 2 grand!

Apparently it has a power cell that is good for 150 shots at full power, and, with a focusing lens can 'burn hot enough to make air explode at the focus point. That's right: They can kill the air itself.' -Cracked.com

http://www.amazing1.com/burning-lasers.htm#_blank

Pretty nice, I bet with a little work someone could make a fairly decent CNC laser cutter using one of those.

during the equinox, you can stand an egg up on end, and it will not fall over...only a couple of days left to try it.

Any other time of the year, it will fall over...

rjw wrote:

during the equinox, you can stand an egg up on end, and it will not fall over...only a couple of days left to try it.

Any other time of the year, it will fall over...

Urban Legend. Just hold it steady with the point facing up for a little bit (30 seconds is probably more than enough) and the yolk will descend, dropping the center of gravity and rendering it stable enough to stay standing.

If not near, on or around an equinox....I think not.

I'll bet ya a buck

I just stood 2 up on the small end...

It should work on the small end too. And that buck would be mine, because I did this as an experiment in middle school .

The gravitational effects from the sun and the moon are too small to cause any effect, otherwise we'd have more interesting phenomena, like massive volcanic activity based on what time of day/lunar cycle it was.

can you stand an egg up on top of another egg?

It would be a pain to get the second balanced, but it should be possible. The fastest way would be to balance the first, place a screw-on bottle cap on the other end of it (flat surface), then balance the second egg using that surface. The [MUCH] slower way is to just use the other egg surface.