This Guy rules with his Slingshot
Rufus Hussey is the Sling Shot man. He can hit a quarter in mid air with his slingshot.
Via:TheTechBlog
This Car was a little Iced Over this morning
This car was a little iced over this morning. There is new technology that is supposed to get rid of icing like this called electro-pulse.
The new electro-pulse technology is in theory going to take care of this problem for us. The new technology was developed by Ice Engineering. The electro-pulse tech has been installed onto a 489 foot tall Uddevala cable bridge in Sweden and also onto the 107,639 square foot glass dome mall in Moscow City.
It defrosts with a 20,000 kilowatts per square meter jolt of electricity. It zaps the ice off in under a minute. The technology is being tested on a windshield using a thin, transparent, electrically conductive film.
It takes four seconds for the electro-pulse technology to loosen the hold the ice has on the glass. This makes it easy for us to quickly wipe the ice away with our windshield wipers. This should make it easier for us to get the ice off, while staying warm inside our cars. It will also save us time.
Via:Aftertek
Are you bored, play with some paper
Flexagons are paper models that you can fold in different ways to show different surfaces. There are dozens of different configurations.
Via:CrunchGear
Reusable Skylon Space Plane
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The stuff of science fiction |
The Skylon Space plane is a UK launcher concept which will get an investment of 1m euros (£900,000) from the European Space Agency (Esa).
The reusable Skylon spaceplane would take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over 12 tons to orbit and then return to land on the same destination runway.
The investment will help prove the vehicle’s core technologies, including its Sabre air-breathing rocket engine.
Reaction Engines is the company behind the project. They believe its reusable launcher could fly within 10 years.
Via:BBC News
Girl Arrested for Texting in Class
A 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after she refused to stop texting on her phone during a high school math class. The girl denied having a phone when she was confronted by a school safety officer, but a female cop found it after frisking her. The girl was hiding the Samsung Cricket and it was recovered “from the buttocks area” of the teenager, according to the police report. The girl is scheduled for an April 20th court appearance for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. She was also banned from school property for a week.
