If You Ever See This Twitter Booth, Please Destroy It
Good thing it’s just a photoshop of an otherwise real booth, whose purpose I don’t know, but is no doubt decent, necessary, benign. Because if this was an actual twitter booth, it could only have been...
View ArticleIs 70 Terabytes of Storage Enough for You?
Apparently, some Russian dude decided that enough was never enough, and built himself a data rig that has a whopping 70TB of storage. Yes, that 70TB. Is that finally enough for all your torrents, warez...
View ArticleRussia to Spend $2b to Clean Up Space Junk by Knocking Old Satellites Out of...
I grew up in the 80′s, when grownups seemed to talk about the Cold War and how evil Russia was all the time. The Russians were always the bad people in the flicks I watched too. Maybe those old...
View ArticleiRiver P8 Heads to Russia, Packing Mac-Like UI
Most of the personal media players on the market are pretty much the same thing. They are generally boxy devices that look like big MP3 players with a color screen. iRiver has a new PMP called the P8...
View ArticleVideo Card Museum: This Building Can Run Crysis
Like many PC gamers, Alexander aka SArd always wanted to have the best graphics cards so he could play the latest games. Back in 1998, SArd got his hands on his uncle’s PC, which had an Intel Celeron...
View ArticleRobot Matroyshka: Matrobotshka?
There’s something that’s always fascinated me about matroyshka, those Russian nesting dolls. I think it’s that they sort of remind me of Inception – in doll form. You know, a doll within a doll within...
View ArticleTwisted iPhone Sculpture: Hope Yours Doesn’t End Up Like This
While I have trouble imagining what could transform a normal-sized iPhone into this bizarre construct, it’s definitely something that will catch your attention. It’s part of an installation by two...
View ArticleRussian Space Official Hints Weapon Might Have Caused Phobos-Grunt Failure
Russia has had some major failures over the last few months in its space program. So far the country has lost a load of supplies that were to go to the ISS, along with a GPS satellite and more. The...
View ArticleCar with Dual Power Windows: Now it’s Tinted, Now it’s Not
I don’t often post about automotive technology, hacks or mods because I don’t know a lot about cars, but this one is too neat to pass up: a car with two sets of front windows, a pair that’s transparent...
View ArticleDo Russian Probe Pics from ’82 Prove Life on Venus?
This is a very interesting debate going on right now in the scientific community. A Russian scientist named Leonid Ksanfomaliti has checked out some images shot by a Russian probe sent to Venus in 1982...
View ArticleBatman Stacking Dolls: Batryoshka?
I’ve seen all sorts of objects done up as those Russian nesting dolls, but these have to be my new favorites. How can you not love these Matryoshka dolls made up to look like Batman? They were made by...
View ArticleSAR-400 Robot is Russia’s Answer to NASA’s Robonaut 2
NASA and General Motors teamed up a while back to create a humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 or R2. R2 is now on the International Space Station where it will be used to conduct repairs and maintenance...
View ArticleRussian Researchers Build Creepy Android to Make Humans “Immortal”
A Team of Russian researchers are thinking big, as in science fiction premise big, building a conceptual mind-transfer android. The ultimate goal is to help mankind achieve immortality by using...
View ArticleStorm Cloud Downspout Makes its Own Tiny Rainstorm
You don’t usually see much creativity in the design of rain gutters and downspouts. They all pretty much look the same to me (when the bums in the alley aren’t stealing them for scrap metal). But...
View ArticleFunny Pothole Caricatures Push Russian Politicians to Do Their Jobs
Where I’m from, most politicians only spring into action when it’s time for re-elections. Other than that, they’re busy plastering their faces on signs and tarpaulins of ongoing projects all around the...
View ArticleFire Extinguisher Bag is Smokin’ Hot
While firefighting gear isn’t exactly the most stylish and comfortable stuff to wear, I think we can make an exception for this cool bag, made up to look like a fire extinguisher. It’s made by the...
View ArticleCrazy Tanks Used Corkscrews, Not Treads
When you think of the way a tank moves around, the main attribute that comes to mind is the wheel-driven treads we’re all used to seeing. But imagine if tank technology had gone this way. Instead of...
View ArticleSolid Ice Toyota Land Cruiser: Insert “In Soviet Russia” Joke Here
For a recent winter ice and snow celebration in the chilly city of Perm,Russia, somebody (presumably from Toyota), built this amazing ride entirely out of ice (plus a few red LEDs.) I’ve had the...
View ArticleRussian Guy Builds Creepy Walking BirdBots – Run for Your Lives!
An engineer in Russia has decided that building humanoid robots has been done enough, so he decided to go and build his own two-legged ‘bots to take on Honda’s Asimo and other bipedal machines. Despite...
View ArticleRussian Police Confiscate Meteorite Fragments from Enterprising Citizens
As you all know, last Friday a massive meteor entered the atmosphere over the Chelyabinsk Region of Russia. The meteor was large enough that scientists believe significant chunks reached the surface of...
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