The team from BBC1’s “Bang Goes the Theory” science program created coffee powered vehicle. This team transformed a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco into car puccino.
This car is fueled by coffee in the cylinder of its back, then the coffee has to be transformed into hydrogen and carbon monoxide by heating it at t 700 degrees Celsius to run this vehicle.
The concept of this car is brilliant but the coffee fuel is more expensive than the usual one.
The car puccino needs 70 kilos of coffee in one ride and the price is estimated between 13 and 26 British pound per kilo which means that a journey will cost between 910 and 1,820 pounds.
Every 60 miles, the filter of this car needs to be cleaned from soot and tar. This vehicle can make 210 mile journey, from Manchester to London with a speed of 60 mph in ten hours.
source: dailymail
We talked before about the optical illusion and how the visual perception is affected by human sex, his culture and environment.
Nendo group designed unusual architectural designs for mental clinic in Japan, MD.net Clinic Akasaka.
This bizarre clinic has sliding bookcases and doors hidden behind wall panels. The patients and the clinic staff cannot enter the clinic rooms through the visual door but via sections of the walls.
Around this clinic, there is bookcases which lead to the consultations rooms and at the end of the corridor, there is a door which can be used normally to see the surroundings.
The designers of this mental clinic aim to stir different experience for the patients.
source: weirdsianews
Craig Lundberg lost his eyes in rooftop firefight in Iraq. The Ministry of Defense and St Dunstan’s, the charity for blind ex-servicepeople fund a project which Craig participated in to help scientists in developing a technology which will assist blinded ex-servicemen and women.
The eye tech glasses or the BrainPort is about a sensory substitute which makes the blind feel their surrounding world.
It consisted of a pair of glasses with a camera and lead attached to the tongue of its user. The lead has hundreds of tiny electrodes which visualizes the images, then the tongue sends these data to the brain to interprets them.
The glasses are made by Oakley and it can distinguish between different shades in the way that the tongue receives strong pulse in the dark shades.
Craig describes this technology as amazing because he can recognize people and penetrate his way without touching things.
Craig with MoD eye surgeon Rob Scott will report all the details about this new tech to help scientists in developing it to extend this device to include other blind service-people.
Source: Mirror
The stalker’s dream is a facial recognition phone application which is developed by The Astonishing Tribe, the software developer.
The software of this application enables its user to recognize persons through their images. It takes the information through the various social networking sites such as Facebook and fetches the photo through them.
So by pressing the ‘Recognize’ button via this prototype camera phone application, the user can know the personal details such as phone numbers, addresses and email addresses of any strangers.
Simon Davies from Privacy International, Dr Ian Brown from the Oxford Internet Institute and security experts fear from this application which eases targeting persons.
Source: dailymail
February 25, 2010 – 4:06 pm
Rachel Betty Case makes jewelry from finger and toe nail clippings. she uses these nails, resin and amber to design weird jewelry gifts for special persons.
She called her jewelry works human ivory because she uses the ivory colors for her works and most of her materials consist of humans.
Your nails can be part of her jewelry works and you can watch her works at her Etsy shop or by visiting her website ThatWomanMakesCrazyArt.com
source: odditycentral
February 22, 2010 – 4:21 pm
The Makeup girl is a part from the advertising of MAC cosmetics shop, in Hawaii. This girl model wears body-paint and standing against a painted background.
It is spotted, and photographed by Peter Kun Frary. This model girl is not naked, she wears strips of cloth covering certain parts of her body.
She does her work perfectly in the way she never blinks.
source: odditycentral
February 21, 2010 – 9:26 pm
The United Arab Emirates University College of Information Technology has developed the first Arabic speaking humanoid robot. This Arabic robot is supplied with facial recognition software, internet connectivity and speech.
The first journey for this robot is from Dubai, to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on an Emirates Airlines flight with his Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis.
This robot acts normally as if it is a normal first class passenger such as watching movie, reading newspaper, chatting with plane crew and other passengers and ordering food.
source: dailymail
The name of this Arabic robot goes back to the Muslim philosopher, Ibn Sina in the 11th century.
February 20, 2010 – 4:03 pm
Wasabi Smoke Alarm device was invented by Air Water Safety Service, a fire extinguisher company in Tokyo.
This device is about eight inches by three inches and it can wake deaf up by the scent of chemical material, allyl isothiocyanate. It differs from the usual alarms that it depends upon the smell not the noise.
The smell which this device emits is strong enough to wake up sleep person in two and half minutes. This device has been tested upon the normal and deaf persons to recognize its strength and to avoid the watery eyes which its smell could cause.
source: weirdasianews
February 18, 2010 – 4:08 pm
The Rainbow River or Cano Cristales river is located near the town of La Macarena in Colombia.
It is about 20-meter-wide, 100-meter-long and you can enjoy watching it by riding a horse via travel tour agencies.
Between the dry and rainy reasons, this river converts into colorful Eden due to the algae which rest in its bottom.
This splendid phenomenon lasts for few days and the colors of this river ranges from blue, to green and red. The sunlight and the river’s flow create beautiful shades of these colors.
source: odditycentral
February 17, 2010 – 11:06 pm
Electrolux has made a futuristic cooker which requires from its user just simple tips such as creating holes, putting the ingredients of the food in its softened surface, then define the time and the temperature via his finger.
This HQ cooker will afford some choices of recipes for the ingredients after putting them in its mouldable surface.
It gives its user the chance to create number of pans simply by pressing on its malleable surface and it can be cleaned by a dishcloth.
It was exposed for the first time at DesignBoost in Stockholm.
Till now, Electrolux does not create this design and it expressed that this technology will be in use within 40 years.
source: dailymail
