Quite Possibly the Coolest Hot Tub You Have Ever Seen ? Dornob Ever want to steam on the side of a mountain or carry your hot tub with you on your canoe? Off-the-grid, durable, mobile, strangely sexy and well-engineered, the Dutch Tub is probably the last thing you would expect to see someone lounging in at the top of a summit – but one of the best aspects of the tub is that it moves easily, making the scene above more realistic than most people realize. This ingenious hot tub is a completely energy-independent gadget that requires no plugging in. In terms of its design it is a bit of a tough sell at first, looking like a giant orange cooking pot or coffee mug with a strange spiral growing out of its side. Despite its bulk and size, the Dutch Tub weighs about as much as a thin adult – 150ish pounds – and can thus be easily carried by two people.
Lofted Forest Home: Organic Curves & Natural Materials « Dornob Good things come to those who wait – particularly in a work of uniquely detailed and highly curved architecture. Nearly a decade in the making, this structure by Robert Harvey Oshatz is much like a tree house – lofted toward the top of the canopy around it – only bigger, grander, more complex and curved than most any tree house in the world. The perimeter of the structure is pushed out into the forest around it, curving in and out to create views as well as a sense of intimacy with the coniferous and deciduous tree cover. The wood and metal detailing is incredible in its variety and customization – each piece designed to fit a particular form and function. Wood and stone carry naturalistic themes from the outside in and even the metal looks naturally rusted. The curved, organic mix of materials continues to the interior of this elevated forest home – a conceptual play on the fluidity and complexity of music (the source of inspiration for the architect and client in the design).
tips and downloads for getting things done @← (: Using your phone as a clock seems to be the most obvious use case. There's also other apps that can display useful information. @← (: The more screens I have on my desk, the cooler I feel. Superficial and immature? @flinx1: Using a phone as semi-permanent clock seems kind of pointless for several reasons: 1. 2. 3. Funnily enough, the opposite also occurs in which LCD screens (actually more correctly their backlight) illuminate a darker room much more than VFD screens and therefore can be irritating when trying to sleep (and turning it off for the night can be a pain, since if you require the time at some point in the night, your face will get blasted with light) (VFD's technically produce more light than LCD's, but LCD's (backlight) produced a much more diffused light which gives the appearance of being brighter.) Sorry for the TL;DR post ;)
10 Great Screenshots From The Maury Povich Show Love him or hate him, Maury Povich knows how to entertain. So for your enjoyment, we’ve scoured the internets for screenshots and gifs, and compiled a top 10 list of great moments in The Maury Povich Show. There are also several excellent Maury videos on YouTube, but we’ll save those for another list. 10 Great Screenshots From The Maury Povich Show Bonus Tyra Screenshot: CERN Researchers Trap Antimatter Hydrogen Atoms For the First Time While CERN researchers at the Large Hadron Collider continue to smash protons, create mini Big Bangs, and otherwise probe the fundamental fabrics that make up the universe, other less-publicized CERN experiments are yielding big results as well. A team of researchers working at CERN's Geneva labs has succeeded in trapping antihydrogen atoms – the antimatter equivalent to hydrogen – for the first time. Antihydrogen has been created in the lab before – at CERN actually, back in 2002 – but those atoms existed for just a few fleeting microseconds before doing what antimatter does best: colliding with normal matter (in this case hydrogen atoms) and, in a flash of gamma rays, ceasing to exist. That in turn could upend modern physics as we know them today, largely undoing the "standard model" of particle physics and sending physicists back to the drawing board.
5 Bizarre Real Life Gangs That Put The Warriors to Shame In movies, comic books, video games and 80s videos, all street gangs are assembled around a loose theme--like rollerblading, ancient Vikings, or love of classic opera. And they're all either constantly brawling in the streets after kidnapping somebody’s girlfriend, or else dancing in them to help save the neighborhood rec center from an evil real estate agent. Yes, in pop culture gangs are colorful, memorable, goofy and kind of awesome. Notice I said "usually," and not "always." Sukeban: Japanese Schoolgirl Gangs When you hear the words "schoolgirl gang," your mind likely reels off half-remembered scenes from the kind of Cinemax movies they can only show at two in the morning, but they are very real. Sukeban gang "colors" were always some variation of the sailor-style school uniform--usually modified with patches, stencils and lengthened skirts--and they often sported cartoonishly bright dyed hair and colored socks. Pictured: F... facts? Japan: “Yo-yo girl army kill all!” World: “Ha!
The 10 Greatest Low Pass Flybys of All Time Mar 4, 2010 As if the world of crazy Fighter Jets and Dogfights were not enough, pilots periodically get the urge to take it even further. Enter the ‘low pass flyby’, which takes ‘cutting it close’ to the extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeme! Check out the YouTube video I made below of the Top 10: Greatest Low Flybys of All Time, ALL TIME! If you enjoyed this article, the Sifter highly recommends: Concealed Enemy Got You Down? There’s a Weapon for that
Rainbow Thread Art (8 pics) Though we can appreciate Gabriel Dawe's beautiful thread art by just looking at these pictures, we're certain that these photos will never quite do them justice. In fact, we can imagine ourselves walking around these rainbow prisms and just getting lost. I asked Dawe to tell us what he hoped others got out of his artwork including what they represent. "Conceptually, these works are about the human need for shelter," he tells us. "Ultimately, what I want to give the viewers is an experience with light and color. "What is very satisfying is that I hear all the time that people go back to see them and stay for half hour, experiencing the piece. Read the rest of our interview with Dawe below. You are formally trained in art with an MFA in arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Can you tell us about how your art is influenced by your heritage? On average, how long do these amazing installations take you? What are some of your favorite installations and why?
Fab at Home, Open-Source 3D Printer, Lets Users Make Anything October 1, 2007 12:00 AM Click here to post this video on your blog or website. Click here to post a photo of this winner on your blog or website. Hod Lipson didn't set out to revolutionize manufacturing. He just wanted to design a really cool robot, one that could "evolve" by reprogramming itself and would also produce its own hardware--a software brain, if you will, with the ability to create a body. "To really let this robotic evolutionary process reach its full potential," says Lipson, a Cornell University computer and engineering faculty member, "we need a machine that can fabricate anything, not just complex geometry, but also wires and motors and sensors and actuators." A Fab at Home kit costs around $2400.
Build a Dobsonian Telescope Introduction Our Dobsonian sits in the garden at dusk cooling down for the nights observing. The yellow Optical Tube Assembly is a 6-inch f/7.5 Newtonian. In this section we will show you how to build a complete Dobsonian Telescope. There are many ways to build a Dobsonian telescope, with many design decisions to be made. A Dobsonian Telescope is a optically a Newtonian Reflector mounted on a Alt-Az mount with a low and stable center of gravity and Teflon-Laminate bearings. Motivation & Results In August 2010, we held the 75th Stellafane Convention, and our president, Jeff Lowe, urged all of the Springfield Telescope Makers to bring one of their home made telescopes to Breezy Hill to honor our traditions. The scope was entered in the optical and mechanical competitions. Ken Slater, Webmaster2010-Aug-10 We break the project into two major pieces: the OTA and the Mount, and each piece is to some extent a separate project. Build a Dobsonian Telescope: Master Index A Dobsonian Mount
Secret Weapon Style: Umbrella Grip with Wooden Knuckles « Dornob Personalized handle but … potentially fatal in the wrong hands? It is hard not to spot visual references in this work to both classic brass (or steel) ?knuckles as well as wooden gun grips. Dissatisfied with mass-production wood or metal umbrella handles, Tobiah Adam wanted to carve something a bit more suited to his specific grip (and easy to hold tight during even the worst wind and rain storm), using a stock aluminum-and-black body above. Cut from rich dark Rosewood, the knuckle-duster design was made to fit with a conventional umbrella stem – no sense in reinventing the portion that was already well-built (not to mention: difficult to engineer). Perhaps the weapons association would, in fact, be deflated by this kind of mundane use.
Defensible Space: Secret ‘Safe House’ in Bunker-Style Shell « Dornob Like a diamond forged in the heart of a chunk of coal, the harsh concrete exterior of this house contains a sparkling floor-to-ceiling glass secret hidden from view – a secret place with space-filled rooms and surprisingly open-plan layouts. The solid skin features is not just industrial camouflage, but also a weather-protecting shell complete with the ultimate in modern castle design: a drawbridge! Layers of dark gray perimeter fencing (likewise made of prefab concrete-surface panels) gives way to foreboding facades of likewise lackluster materiality – a dull, decoration-free set of undifferentiated surfaces that looms like a warehouse and looks even more sinister at night. Yet on the interior, luxury design is everywhere to be seen and accommodations include an expansive indoor swimming pool.
How To Turn Google Translate Into Google Beatbox For reasons inexplicable, a “Today I Learned” thread on Reddit has turned into a treatise on how to make Google Translate beatbox for you, among other things. It must have taken some intense experimentation for Redditor Harrichr to get here but he somehow stumbled upon the following combination of steps. 1) Go to Google Translate 2) Set the translator to translate German to German 3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch 4) Click “listen” 5) Be amazed :) Since the original post both the thread and meme have expanded into slight tweaks and variations, including Technocopter, Helicopter and Dubstep. zk = suspended cymbal bschk = snare pv = brush bk = bass tk = flam1 vk = roll tap kt = flam2 kttp = flam tap krp = hi hat tap pv = short roll th = better hi hat thp, ds = instant rimshot. Image: Datz.ro