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Hand-built 200hp Hayabusa powered Golf Cart does 100mph
So, what’s the best you’ve seen a golf cart run? Street legal golf carts well-equipped with headlights, turn signals and seat belts, can go as fast as 25mph or slightly more, but a custom made golf car powered by a 200hp Hayabusa engine can go as fast as 100mph. Built by Chris of Spring Hill, Florida, the handmade golf cart features a four-cylinder engine from a 1999 Hayabusa and has...
Rectangular Wood.Head.Phones that you can burn after use
Headphones made from wood sound interesting and the though that came to my mind was that these headphones look like National Geographic Channel’s logo cut in half and stuck onto a guy’s head! Created by Anders Stai Fougner, a 19 year student from Oslo Norway, these headphones have a perfect half cut rectangular shape made from wood material. Anders calls them the Wood.Head.Phones and as the...
iTray: First iPad-controlled flying tray serves you in London
What if your understanding of the word ‘Fast Food’ could have a literal meaning? World’s first iPad-controlled flying tray in YO! Sushi in Soho, London, is serving its customers with appetizers and drinks in a brand new way. Called as iTray, the flying tray is made from carbon fiber material and can hurl at the speed of 25mph for a distance of 50 meters aided by on-board cameras that...
Homemade Soapbox Starship steals the show at Star Trek Into the Darkness 2013 premiere
For the premiere of “Star Trek Into the Darkness 2013” movie, Rob Wixey a 29 year old die hard Star Wars fan bamboozled everyone present with his Soapbox Starship craft made in his backyard in two months. The cool sci-fi craft came to life with the help of his three friends for the Red Bull Soapbox race that will take place at Alexandra Palace on Sunday 14 July. And his entry into the Star...
Pinhole camera powered by watch movement from Kwanghun Hyun
Pinhole camera is the simplest and oldest form of cameras, thus it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that we’ve all seen many types of pinhole cameras. However, Heartbeat – a custom-made pinhole camera by Korean designer and photographer Kwanghun Hyun which uses watch movements for its mechanism, is the most distinctive ever. The Heartbeat is essentially a functional camera, except that...
Students create solar-powered wheelchair with integrated phone charger
A team of students at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science mesmerized one and all at the World Cerebral Palsy Day’s “Change My World in One Minute” competition with the solar-powered wheelchair they had developed. Drawing inspiration from the design of retractable roof of a convertible car, the chair has been designed with retractable panels on top. The...
M8 gaming PC by BMW Group DesignworksUSA and ASRock is majestic
BMW Group DesignworksUSA has teamed up with ASRock (manufacturer of motherboards) to design a very compact gaming PC tower named as M8 that can be placed in both horizontal and vertical positions with the same sexy appeal when looked at. Having a thumping gaming performance with the ability to preempt the power of their PC even before switching it on makes M8 the ultimate gaming machine. The...
MK-4 tank case mod is simple brutal, but we love it!
Fighting robot case mod by modder Wehr-Wolf of Ukraine was something that really blew our minds off, and now here is a MK-4 tank case mod presented with same intention. If the mere look of this case mod isn’t good enough to send you into awe then here is a fact. The case mod is modded after the MK-4 tank – the ancestor of all modern military vehicles we use and see, take that! Featuring an...
Vitamin authentication – Password Pill when swallowed turns you into verification token for security
Just like some other interesting technologies that we have seen in the recent few months this one by Motorola really captures your imagination. Revealed at the D11 conference by Regina Dugan, SVP for advanced technology and projects Motorola, the secretly coded swallowable password/computer pill by Proteus Digital Health makes a human being into an authentication token. Once you swallow the pill...
Futurist’s Hand Activated iPhone Speaker dock is ‘Damn Cool’
You ask for an iPhone docking system with built-in speakers and the options are virtually limitless. But once you have a look at this sci-fi futuristic iPhone speaker dock then everything else will seem dull when compared to its super cool looks and ergonomic positioning of buttons. The Futurist’s Hand Activated iPhone Speaker can be controlled by just using your hand gestures and its sentient...
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