All Entries Tagged With: "technology"
GasCase Diesel And Fuel Bring Gas Station Chic To The Jetset Crowd
Here’s a guaranteed way to get you flagged by airport security: bring along luggage disguised as jerrycans. Infuriating airport personnel is exactly what you’ll do with the GasCase Diesel and GasCase Fuel, two trolley cases that epitomize “gas station chic.”
Okay, I just made up that last phrase. Paired with a service shirt complete with a name patch, though, that’s about the only way I can describe your blue collar fashion aesthetic.
Both bags are made from pickled sheet steel that’s 0.9mm thick, with heavy-duty trolley wheels and an aluminum telescopic handle attached to them. Each case sports 47 x 35 x 16 cm dimensions, painted to a shine in one of seven colors and secured with a butterfly lock. The GasCase Diesel opens to the side with the bag splitting right in the middle like regular travel luggage, while the Fuel opens from the top like a [...]
Scientists Create Universal Mirror, The Exact Opposite Of An Invisibility Cloak
An invisibility cloak reflects light at the exact opposite direction as its source, basically making it look like there’s nothing in the way between you and the object you’re looking straight at. A universal mirror, on the other hand, is its direct contrary, bouncing light back at the exact same location from where it came.
Scientists in Europe and Asia have now been able to produce the latter, a mirror that basically reflects everything back to the same source, regardless of what angle its originating from. Objects it can work on include lights, microwaves and lasers, potentially making them useful for deflection laser weaponry, radar tracking and as a general-purpose shield. Yep, it’s a force field against laser attacks – take that, future soldiers.
The universal mirror (similar to the invisibility cloak originally built in 2006) uses metamaterials, tiny structures that are smaller than light waves, for its construction. [...]
Recycle Technology Into Art
Many people love finding unique pieces of artwork that no one has ever seen before. Sometimes this means stumbling upon an emerging artist who hasn’t become popular yet. Other times it means finding something just different enough that no one else will have seen it. That’s the case with some of this cool artwork created from recycled pieces of technology.
Jeremy Meyer is the creator of some of these cool pieces of art. He creates robots and other mechanical structures from old typewriters. He’s done everything from turning a typewriter into an angry, Frankenstein like face to making an entire person out of typewriter parts! Even more incredible is the fact that he does not glue or weld any of the pieces together but instead finds ways of making the typewriter parts naturally connect to each other.
Ann Smith, on the other hand, loves making owls, dinosaurs, and other fun creatures out [...]
