Charges.com.br - Flock 17 cool magnet tricks Here are seventeen of our favorite magnet tricks, projects and demos. Extract batteries from stubborn holders We’ve all got things that take batteries. Some of them are well designed, and some of them are not. The worst offenders are electronic toys that take (say) half a dozen AA batteries, all of which must be inserted with the correct orientation– spring side first– and pried out, well, somehow. Rather than risk puncturing your batteries by prying them out with something pointy, just use a magnet to lift them out. Find studs in your walls Move a magnet over the wall until it finds a screw or nail head under the paint. Make a homopolar motor One of our favorite demos of all time is a homopolar motor. Make LED ThrowiesLED throwies are useful for many more things than graffiti. Demonstrate magnetohydrodynamic propulsion You can make your very own caterpillar drive like the one in The Hunt for Red October with this magnetohydrodynamic demonstration. Make a simple compass Make a fridge pen
Funky Downtown: Top 10 Stupid Thieves of 2009 - Flock They are the Top 10 funniest and stupiest thieves of 2009. These are not jokes because these incidents really happened this year. 1. “I’ll go take a nap first before I finish my robbery.” A court in Qingyuan county, Liaoning province, sentenced an ex-convict to six years in prison for attempted robbery, as he tried to commit the crime immediately after being released from prison in November. The accused, surnamed Zhang, left for Qingyuan county soon after being released from the county prison. With no cash for food, Zhang barged into a 48-year-old woman’s house, hoping to steal some money. The woman, however, convinced Zhang that he looked very tired and should take a nap, promising him to give him some money once he woke up. The woman tied the intruder with a rope as soon as he slept off and phoned the police. 2. The cell phone owner called police who identified the thief as a man surnamed Liu through the bank’s surveillance camera. He was reprimanded and let go. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. [via]
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Amazing & Crazy Upside down house in Germany | Quality Junky Upside Down House Installation In Germany, Really Crazy and Amazing 20 Optical Illusions That Will Have You Stumped | Geek With Lapt Can we always believe what our eyes tell us? As you will see when you look at the following images, the simple answer to that is no. Our eyes can and do deceive us, especially when presented with ambiguous or misleading information. It would appear that in order to make sense of something our brain sort of fills in the gaps and presents us with a ‘picture’ that may not be a true representation of the reality. Stare at the three vertical dots in the centre of this image for about 30 seconds and then look at a white wall or a white bit of paper or you can even just sit back and close your eyes. See if you can count how many legs this elephant has? Ok, the idea here is to count how many black dots you can see in the corner of the squares. This is a very well known image but what does it say to you? All we are looking at here is a simple 2D picture but we don’t see it like that. There’s something quite freaky about looking at an image that you know is still but which appears to be moving.
Homer, Mario and Jessica Rabbit in Real Life - Mighty Optical Il Pixeloo is an artist who created these magnificent real-life photos of Homer Simpson, Super Mario and Jessica Rabbit. For his profession, he works daily with Photoshop. Cartoon characters are his favorite inspiration, so he decided to transform them a little, giving them realistic real-life form. In his mutant creations, Pixeloo used face parts of some well known actors, and implemented them magnificently.