Archive for November, 2009

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The ULTIMATE Amphibious Vehicle

The Python in one word is the ULTIMATE amphibious vehicle. It is a hot rod on the water, excess of 60 mph water speeds, and a hot rod on the street, mid 12 second 1/4 mile times and 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. The engine is based on the famous aluminum LS Corvette power train.

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Street Art: Inflatable Bag Monsters

Only using tape and garbage bags, Joshua Harris creates giant inflatable bag monsters by taping them down to sidewalk grates. They appear to be just another pile of trash on the street until the air blows, inflating the bags and bringing the monsters to life.

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Origami Dollars

Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the money folder, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States. One Dollar Bill, Bending, twisting, and folding, Won Park creates life-like shapes inspired by objects in stunning detail.

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World’s Tallest Building

The Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) is a supertall skyscraper located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is predicted to be the world’s tallest man-made structure, as well as the tallest building by any means. The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about $4.1 billion US and for the entire new ‘Downtown Burj Dubai…

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Luxury Motorcycle *Video*

The Confederate’s P120 Combat Edition Fighter is a high profile, luxury motorcycle with a limited production run of 120. Confederate describes the P120 by saying:

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iPhone Apps Gone Wrong *Video*

With over 100,000 iPhone applications available, it can be hard to find the right ones. There are featured apps, top 25 apps and everyone has their own favorite iPhone apps. There are game apps, music apps, business apps and apps that should have never been approved. Here are a couple iPhone apps gone wrong!

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Twitter’s New HQ

By now I’m sure everyone knows what Twitter is. But, do you know what it looks like behind the scenes in the Twitter headquarters? Recently, Twitter moved to a new, larger office in San Francisco. The office, which was previously occupied by Bebo, is not to far from their old office and was decorated by…

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A Little Motivation Can’t Hurt *Video*

A little motivation never hurt anyone…as far as I know. Everyone is motivated by different things in their life, whether it be material goods, inspirational sayings or the fact that they need to put food on your table.  Here are  a few things that may motivate you and help you get through the day.

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Throwboy Nerdy Pillows

Throwboy makes pillows with all of your favorite sayings. From FML, WTF to LOL and O RLY? They even have a mac icon set that includes iPhoto, Photo Booth, iTunes, Dashboard, iChat and Finder.

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Week Without Facebook

We all know someone who is definitely addicted to Facebook. It’s probably yourself, but that’s alright for now. You are still in denial. A new website has recently launched to help cure your addiction of Facebook. For those of you who think “It’s not me but I know a guy who is”…