After a failed petition to the U.S. government to build a Death Star, someone has taken up the cause to fund the construction project using the popular crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter. Thankfully, to help keep costs down and to help make the project a reality open source hardware and software will be used. Along with “enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.” I can’t wait.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/461687407/kickstarter-open-source-death-starOpen Source Death Star Kickstarter
A Swimmer’s Guide on How To Make Swedish Goggles
Back in the early 1970’s Tony Malmsten, a successful swim coach in Sweden, invented goggles for one of his swimmers who suffered from allergies and eczema due to the foam found on goggles. The Monterbara, later named Swedish Goggles, quickly became a common product in Sweden and eventually became “the most copied goggles in the world”. One of the main reasons this style of goggles became so popular was that by building it yourself you were ensured a perfect fit.
Debating Canada’s International Zombie Strategy
Is your country prepared for a zombie apocalypse? Canada’s House of Commons “debated” a possible zombie emergency on February 13, 2013 and discussed the development of an international zombie strategy.
Gravity Trailer Shows the Destruction of the International Space Station
We’ve posted before on space debris and the robots used to make the new movie Gravity but now the official teaser trailer has been released.
Danger 5 Trailer
Australian partnership Alrugo quickly established a cult following immediately after their release of Italian Spiderman in 2007. Director Dario Russo and David Ashby have since formed Dinosaur and released a show…
Mitt Romney Loves Big Bird
If we didn’t learn anything else during the first presidential debate of 2012, we at last now know that Mitt Romney loves Big Bird.
SIGGRAPH 2013 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer
SIGGRAPH 2013 posted a preview of the technical papers presented this year. These works represents breakthrough research in the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques, with far reaching implications…
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