Archive for Technics
How D-Dalus flies like nothing else
Posted by: | CommentsLast year, the Austrian engineering firm IAT21 set out to construct a flying machine that floated like a hummingbird, traveled as fast as a jet, was as quiet as a hot-air balloon, and was simple enough that a car mechanic could repair it. The company’s working prototype, called D-Dalus, is roughly five feet by three feet square and can lift about 100 pounds. But the size and lift are not what’s most impressive. A flying machine with no airfoil, rotor or jet propulsion can travel where most cannot: in very tight spaces and through terrible weather.
This record player reads tree rings instead of LPs
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Artists often say they can find music in everything, particularly nature. The question they often face is how to get the general public to hear the same tune that they do. One German artist, Bartholomäus Traubeck, seems to have hit on one straightforward method to accomplish this with some clever technology.
Douchebag designed to transport skis with ease
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Douche bags at ski hills aren’t a new phenomenon. Whether it’s the aggressive adrenalin junkies yelling at you from the lifts in hopes you’ll fall in glorious YouTube-ranking fashion or the rich folks in $5,000 fur-lined one-piece ski suits, they’re everywhere. Now there’s a new kind of a Douchebag that is designed to actually make your ski day more fun.
Dolphin jetpack
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Some people go swimming with dolphins, enthralled with their easy movement through the water and the grace with which they occasionally breach the surface. Others, like Franky Zapata, make dolphins look pretty lame by comparison.
