Category Archives: Gadgets

Snow Removal Tractor -Lego Claas Xerion 5000 and 6×6 Tow Truck

The World’s Largest LEGO Wooden Roller Coaster

Chairudo built the world’s largest wooden-style coaster, inspired by El Toro at Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey, out of LEGO. His gigantic LEGO wooden coaster was made out of around 90,000 bricks, it measures 21 feet long, 4 feet wide, 4.5 feet tall, and sports 85 feet of track. It is currently on display at the Czech Repubrick event at Hamleys toy store in Prague, Czech Republic.

Fully Functional Lego Snowblower

Candle Rubik’s Cube

British puzzle maker Tony Fisher, who built the world’s largest and smallest Rubik’s Cube puzzle, is back with a new stunt. This time around, Fisher created a Rubik’s Cube candle, lit some of the wicks on it, and solved the functioning cube while it was still burning.

Automatica

Nigel Stanford is a New Zealand musician who creates sound experiments using mechanics and technology. The music video for the title track on his new album, Automatica, was made by two thin orange boys: industrial robots.

Or, well, it looks like it was made by the robots. In fact, the robots aren’t playing the music you can hear — instead, a combination of special effects and sped-up footage was used to make it look like they are. Stanford told The Verge that the video is essentially a performance, although the music was specifically written to sound like something the robots could play.

Behind the scenes:

 

Sleeping Bag in a Can!?

First commercial movie screened

On December 28, 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening takes place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers unveiled their invention to the public in March 1895 with a brief film showing workers leaving the Lumiere factory. On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a series of short scenes from everyday French life and charged admission for the first time.
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Hobby

Hippo Zippo

Miatas in Sync

In Case of Fire

McGenius?

Posted over the weekend to the McDonald’s New Zealand Facebook page with the caption “McGenius?” the interlocking containers would put a sandwich on top of a beverage cup, covered by a fry bin that would have indentations on the top where you could store condiments.

So rather than walking down the street with a to-go bag, you’d have a tower of food.

We’re not quite sure it would be a good idea to stack a hot sandwich on top of a cold drink (the possibility for condensation, melting ice, and leakage scare us), the top fry layer seems destined to pop open and vomit fried potatoes all over the place, and it all seems rather top-heavy, so if you stub your toe on a curb or get jostled by a rude pedestrian, it seems like your whole lunch could go Jenga on the sidewalk.

Marble Machine – Triple Gears Lift

SlideWheel

Touch at your own risk!

While visiting the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a curious guest approached the touch activated Virtual Shark Tank and reached out to touch the glass, repeating the movement over and again. The lack of immediate results left the patron completely unprepared for what came next, when a giant (simulated) shark appeared out of nowhere and proceeded to break the virtual glass of the virtual tank. The unsuspecting guest was so surprised that he fell onto the floor in shock.

See the video over on YouTube.

Furniture for his majesty…

Self-Driving

LEGO Lawn Mower Man

Homemade Tank!

The 18-year-old high school student behind the YouTube channel MacroMachines spent 14 months building an incredible drivable 40% scale World War II era M26 Pershing tank that he took out for a spin around the yard. His entire build process is available to view on YouTube.

How Does a Glass Top Pool Table Work?