Mural art by John Pugh John Pugh’s Mana Nalu mural in Honolulu. Fire crews rushed to save the children from the mighty wave – before realising it was an optical illusion An Egyptian style mural adorns a wall in Los Gatos, California. Pugh paints people into the mural to heighten the 3D effect A mural [...]

The Daily Telegraph says: “HOLY cow! This hunk of beef is believed to have been struck by lightning – and somehow survived. And we’re not cooking this up. It’s entirely feasible, James Cook University geo-sciences expert Jon Nott says. “Cows are susceptible to lightning strikes because of both sets of legs being on the ground, [...]

Sleep Safe Tape is a roll of standard transparent 1/2″ wide tape that has pictures of an eye printed along the length of the tape. Many situations exist where it is taboo to sleep despite the natural inclination of humans to rest their tired eyes. Examples include meetings, lectures, and conversations. With Sleep Safe Tape, [...]

Take a closer look at this stunning photograph of a greylag goose. Your eyes do not deceive you – this puzzling bird really is flying upside down but with its neck and head twisted the right way up. The incredible display of mid-flight acrobatics is also a remarkable feat of wildlife photography and stunned the [...]

These are Digitigrade leg extensions. They are made of steel and add 14 inches of height to the wearer. But these are not ordinary stilts; they give a person the uncanny and graceful appearance of an animal. It is really cool! The movement of the legs is genuinely graceful and naturalistic. It is a great [...]

Eskil Ronningsbakken is one of the balancing Artists. He is fantastic performer. He is 28years old performed the most dangerous balancing acts. Dangerous Balancing artist Eskil Ronningsbakken Eskil Ronningsbakken started his balancing career only five years old, and he saw a yogin serenely balancing. He performed professionally for nearly 14 years. Now he is the [...]

How it all started The Mondo Spider Project was founded by five Vancouverites: Charlie Brinson, Dillard Brinson, Alex Mossman, Leigh Christie and Jonathan Tippett. Junkyard Wars Inspired by the famous TV shows Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars USA, Alex Mossman, Brian Wells and several other brilliant local Vancouver Engineers started a competition known as The [...]

This is how some system administrator in Russia prepares himself a quick meal during those long nights at the office — with a 220-volt hotdog. He stabs a fork in each end, connects the clips, plugs in the plug, and presto: death by electrocution just waiting to happen. The guy even sticks LEDs in the [...]

Front: How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb? Back: You’re still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so all you’d have to do is send a light bulb change message. Front: I manage programmers freakin’ primadonnas!! Front: [...]

Dubai’s latest offering is a carbon-neutral ‘pyramid’ city “Ziggurat” is the name of the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley with the characteristic form of a terraced pyramid with successively receding stories. Now the name is about to enter a new phase. Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe [...]

Artist about self: “After getting aware of the viewpoint of an “empty self,” I started in 1999 a series of works using paper, titled “Linear-Actions Projects by Drawing and Cutting.” It looks like annual rings of a tree or topographical map or waive, but it isn’t. It is absolutely the traces of actions of a [...]

Clark Little grew up on the North Shore of Oahu and made his name as the pioneer of surfing at the Waimea Bay shorebreak. Clark had a unique talent for taking off on hopeless closeouts. He would get launched, pull into, and survive in perhaps the nastiest shorebreak in the world. After Clark stepped away [...]

Avery Holleman has developed a PC design that can turn out to be a very useful tool on your conference tables. Named as Napkin PC, the design resembles a Napkin holder, which combines multiple touch screen devices within a collaborative network. The digital pens which are a part of the device allow the users to [...]

Weighing in at a mere 20 billion trillion watts per square centimeter and containing a measly 300 terawatts of power, the University of Michigan has broken a record with a 1.3-micron speck wide laser. It’s about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser in the world and can perform for 30 femtoseconds once [...]

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]

Bernard Katz artist and designer in hot glass for 20 years, graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art specializing in Glass Blowing and Sculpture. Following graduation, Bernard began working around the United States with well known glass artists such as Leon Applebaum, David Garcia and Samuel Bloom before setting out on his own. Since [...]

A psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species. The frogfish — which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail — was initially discovered by scuba diving instructors working for a tour operator [...]

3D Projections on Buildings; Looks pretty awesome, I’m supprised at the ammount of image/light/whatever you want to call it on the building, i’m sure these were recorded under optimal conditions, but that makes this no less impressive.. NEW TECHNOLOGY – EVENT COMMUNICATIONS Innovator and spectacular, 3D Mapping Video projected is intergrated perfectly into a strategy [...]