Want to visit Rome in all of its gladiator-filled glory but can’t afford to build that time machine you keep telling everyone you have the plans for? Well Google Earth is here to help you out. Google taps into the history nerd in all of us with creating ancient Rome in their 3D application Google Earth.
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Google Earth Rebuilds Ancient Rome
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Mod Your Old Scanner Into A Camera
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008If you have an old flatbed scanner that you’re not using, don’t throw it out! Turn it into a camera that takes some pretty freaky-deaky pictures.
Source – Make
Mario Theme Created With Beer Bottles
Friday, November 7th, 2008One remote controlled car. Multitudes of beer bottles. One gaming geek. It all adds up to creating one of the most iconic video game themes – Mario Bros.
Source – YesButNoButYes
1/10 Scale Nautilus
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Above is pictured one Pat Regan with his 1/10 scale working replica of the Nautilus from the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Is is obviously one of the coolest people in the universe.
He’s a massive fan of the film and has also built other replicas from the film including underwater rifles and diving suits, and restored one of the film’s original diving suits. He even has instructions on how to build your own replica Nemo rifle. Pretty swank my friends.
To see all of the projects he’s done, of which most include production notes, check out Regan’s site at Vulcania Submarine.
Source – Dethroner
The Evolution Mobile Bar! Because It’s Happy Hour Somwhere Right Now
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Looking for a portable means of inebriation that would make Jules Verns somewhat envious? Then the Evolution Mobile Bar may be just for you.
KegWorks sells this baby which is an aluminum with a silver stainless finish portable bar. It has a speed rail, holds about ten bottles of booze, 24 pieces of stemware, built in garnish containers and only weighs in at 65 lbs. They also give you skirting options but why bother? It’s so bad-ass without it. Only catch – it costs almost two grand, which is a chunk of change even by today’s standards.
Frat-Boy douchebag not included.
Source – Boing Boing
The Coffin Cruiser
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Want to make yourself a sweet ride for some Halloween cruisin’? Well the ghouls from Burrhill Boneyards have something that may fill that ticket – the Coffin Cruiser. Built on the frame of a lawnmower, this baby has working lights, a scrolling LED marquee, ample seating, skeletons, tombstones, pvc tricked out to look like chromed exhaust and the bragging rights to having the most awesome riding mower in town. Check out the video below to see the Coffin Cruiser in action, and the site for design details, photos and more videos.
Source – HauntProject.com via RavensBarrow.com
What Your Music Needs Is More Cowbell
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Do you have a fever? One that can only be cured with… more cowbell? If that’s the case MoreCowbell.dj is that means to a cure. It’s a Flash app that inserts rhythmic cowbell and Chritopher Walken samples to your lame mp3. How’s it done? Well…
MoreCowbell.DJ is an application built using The Echo Nest Analyze API . Analyze API is a tool that enriches your software’s understanding of music. It uses a perceptual model of human listening to generate detailed XML descriptions of a song’s structure and musical content to power music applications with a much deeper musical understanding.
I’m not too sure what the hell that all means but who cares? It adds more cowbell!
Source – Boing Boing
Large Hadron Collider
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Tomorrow will dawn a big day in the scientific community, let alone the world in general, when the switch is thrown to the massive Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator which will collide beams of protons. Once that happens one of two things will happen…
1. Science FTW! Scientists finally discover the ever elusive “God Particle”, which is the only elementary particle that has never been observed by science, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
2. We’re Doomed! The high-energy particle collisions performed might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles. Kiss your ass goodbye!
So, if you’re an optimist you can actually watch the LHC start up in real time via the CERN video broadcast. If your a doomsayer, well I guess you can hunker down and keep an eye on things at the Has The Large Hardon Collider Destroyed The Earth Yet? site.
Either way we here at Zombie Monkey Projects will be cracking open a fine bottle of booze to salute science… or curse it.
MythBusters Paint With 2100 Barrel Paintball Gun
Friday, August 29th, 2008Adam and Jamie of MythBusters created a massive 2100 barrel paintball gun to create their own version of the Mona Lisa – all in one single shot. And it looks pretty damned good.
The big gun took six months of work to create and was for Nvidia’s Nvision tradeshow. Named Mona Lisa, it was used as part of a demonstration (on an absurdly large scale) on the difference between a CPU and a GPU, the massive paint gun representing the GPU and a smaller robot seen at the beginning of the video named Smiley being the CPU.
Beyond the fact that most of us mortals could give a rat’s ass about the difference between a CPU and a GPU, this demonstration was of a typical MythBusters level of over the top we know and love them for.
Source – Gizmodo
North Korea develops special anti-hunger noodles
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
That crazy despot, Kim Jong-gil, is at it again. His scientists claim to have invented a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger. These hunger-busting noodles apparently have have twice the amount of protein and fives times the fat as ordinary wheat or corn noodles.
A Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper reports “When you consume ordinary noodles (made from wheat or corn), you may soon feel your stomach empty. But this soybean noodle delays such a feeling of hunger.”
This past July, the World Food Programme warned that six million people in North Korea were in dire need of food due to the severe flooding last year.
Now if only they could invent a better hairstyle for their industrious leader and some killer dauphins with lasers shooting out of their eyes we may have the recipe to solve all of Earth’s problems.
Source – BBC
