This looks awesome…so much so you wish there was a fire you could put out with this Quake-esque fire extinguisher. Called the Shooter and designed by Eunjung Kim, Yangwoo Kim and Junyi, it shoots out CO² shells rather than water or foam. The device can carry up to 8 material flexible bullets and even has a distance gauge so you don’t get too close to the flames. The only problem that could arise is finding out that you need more than 8 bullets…just like finding out you’ve run out of toilet paper right after the fact! Bummer…

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If you have some time to twiddle away why not pay a visit to Cube e-Craft (www.cubeecraft.com). It’s a website which features paper craft toys…lots of them! And the best part is that the toys are completely free to download.

I’ve tried it out myself and must confess I’m totally hooked. All you need is a printer and the ability to cut and fold. No need for tape, glue or saliva (if you didn’t have the previous 2).

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Ever wondered what some of the most iconic places in the world look like from the air? Well, check out http://www.640pixels.com/articles/60-incredible-aerial-photos-you-must-see.aspx and prepare to be amazed. It doesn’t feature all those places you had in mind but the images are breathtaking nonetheless.

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Guess what, MC Hammer has a blog! Simply called http://mchammer.blogspot.com/ it’s an interesting bit of light reading. I liked the Hammer and still do. Apparently he is now a preacher somewhere in the states.

The story goes that his hit song, "U Can't Touch This" became an overnight pop success when it was released in 1990. Transforming MC Hammer into a superstar with endorsement deals with Pepso and KFC. Sadly, with lack of knowledge on how to spend and save, Hammer spent $30 million on a spending spree which included purchases such as mansions and a $500,000-a-month salary. Two less than exciting albums later and a few more poor investments led Hammer to declare himself a bankrupt in 1996 with an estimate of over $13 million in debt.

(But I did love the super jodhpurs he wore for the music video)

How on earth does this sort of thing happen? But the point of this entry is to recommend viewing this YouTube video I found on his blog. It’s called Christian the Lion – the Whole Story (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U). It’s such a sweet story I cried a little.

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Inventor of the super cool looking motorcycle exoskeleton has released a new video showing the machine in motion. It looks really impressive and brings about memories of Tron.

Calling it the Deus Ex Machina, it is slated to be an electric, wearable motorcycle which allows for vertical parking. Couple that with a central cooling system, pneumatic accumulator, fluidic muscles, lithium ion batteries, a hub motor and an ultra capacitor…if you just went “WHAT!”, don’t worry, I didn’t get it either.

It just looks so great. Check out more at http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-08/wearable-motorcycle

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Designer Yuli Sung has designed a hands free lawn mower. Calling it the Muwi it works by first calculating the actual size of the land and then automatically starts to eat up the grass. Ok, so the technical bits as to how this miracle calculation is done still eludes me. But let’s assume there’s some strong fairy magic at work here. As the grass is cut, it enters the bowels of the Muwi which then constructs and compresses the grass into two shapes.

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Heard about the see through concrete? Well, maybe not because it’s fairly new. It’s called the Litracon, or light transmitting concrete, and it was developed in 2001 by a Hungarian architect called Aron Losonczi. I was rather shocked when I heard about it but it won the Leaf Awards in 2006 so I decided to pay their website a visit: http://www.litracon.hu.

The concrete consists of a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. The website has a more in depth explanation about the concrete but basically, “…the result is not only two materials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well…”

And the concrete is as strong as normal (boring) concrete as glass fibres do not have a negative effect on the compression strength value of concrete-basically means that load bearing structures can be built on it.

I am sure this would be a fun addition to any building, be it commercial or residential.

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This one is so funny. Perhaps because it’s so true. Taken from http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2008/08/small-talk-with.html.

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