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Gittler Guitar Looks Like Titanium Pipes, But Start Playing? It’s Music to Your Ears

By Jackson Chung February 17, 2016

It may look like titanium pipes at first, but the Gittler Guitar is a real musical instrument. It has six strings. Each string has its own pickup. Later versions have a plastic body. The steel frets, consisting of stainless steel bars pressure fitted into the stainless steel neck, give the instrument a sitar-like feel, as it is possible to bend the strings downward past where a wooden fretboard would prohibit the movement in a conventional guitar. Click here for more pictures of the guitar. Continue reading for another hands-on demo.

It’s a Knight, It’s a Bird, It’s Medieval Superman in Custom Armor

By Jackson Chung February 17, 2016

From afar, you could mistake this as just regular armor that knights wear, but if this happens to be flying around in the sky, just a shiny bird, but in reality, it’s the latest piece from Prince Armory. To be more specific, Samuel Lee designed it for use in “Combat Groups, Renaissance Festivals and Comic Cons.” Continue reading for more pictures and information.

Swallow an AudioPill and You’ll Have a Rave Inside Your Body, Complete with Pre-Set Beats

By Jackson Chung February 17, 2016

Why go to a rave or dance club, when you could just swallow an AudioPill? Created by Czech artist Jan Poope, this bizarre device is ingested orally and creates ‘a feeling like you are standing in the middle of a concert hall with a powerful audio-system’ inside your body. It comes in three preset beats – 95 BPM / 130 BPM / 143 BPM, and once ingested, the pill takes an hour to travel through the upper section of your gastrointestinal tract. Then the party starts with a ‘very intensive’ pain in your pelvic area, and once that calms down, a ‘beating pulse’ starts in your abdomen, creating mixed feelings of ‘restlessness, amazement, and elation.’ Continue reading for a video and more information.

You Won’t Believe Rasa is a Hydrogen-Powered Car That Gets 250MPG

By Jackson Chung February 17, 2016

UK-based Riversimple has just unveiled Rasa, a strange-looking, hydrogen-powered car that achieves 250mph. It’s powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and only emits a small amount of water, while being touted as the most energy efficient car in the world. The vehicle has room for two passengers, and four-wheel drive, thanks to electric motors in each wheel. One standout feature is the ability to recapture 50% of the kinetic energy that is lost when a typical car brakes, and sending it to super-capacitors at the front of the car for acceleration. Click here to view more pictures of the Rasa. Continue reading for three more videos showing what’s underneath the shell, and additional information.

Architects Build Hogwarts-Inspired Home That’s Powered by Geothermal Energy

By Jackson Chung February 17, 2016

Architects have designed a Hogwarts-inspired home that’s located in the foothills of Ashland, Oregon, and it’s heated / cooled with geothermal energy to boot. In addition to all the hand-carved accents you see, including an arched doorway made from Brazilian mahogany, you’ll also find an endless pool in a separate, solar-heated glass building. One caveat: it’ll set you back a cool $8.23-million. Click here to view the first image in this week’s geek life gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of a mind-bending painting illusion.

Smartphone-Sized Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB USB 3.0 HDD Easily Fits in a Pocket, Get One for Under $70 Shipped

By Jackson Chung February 16, 2016

Seagate’s Backup Plus Slim 2TB USB 3.0 Portable HDD is currently the slimmest in its class, and it’s being offered for $69.99 shipped, today only, originally priced at $109.99. The Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive is the simple, one-click way to protect and share your entire digital life. At 12.1millimeters thin for up to 4TB of capacity, it’s ready to take with you and go. Product page. Continue reading for a full video unboxing and review.

Human Eye Versus Galaxies and 18 More Fascinating Images from Around the Web

By Jackson Chung February 16, 2016

Did you know that there are as many atoms in a single atom of our DNA than there are stars in most galaxies? Or, that a human eye contains more atoms than all the stars in the known universe? These facts, courtesy of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, are just some of the mind-boggling things revealed on the “Cosmos” television show. Continue reading for more fascinating images from around the web.

Navy’s Star Wars-Inspired Railgun Could be Used on a Stealth Warship in 2-Years

By Jackson Chung February 16, 2016

Photo credit: Mail Online

The US Navy’s new electromagnetic railgun can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound, and it could be installed on a stealth warship by 2018. Researchers describe the technology as Star Wars-like, since it can fire a 10kg shell at speeds up to 5,400mph over 100-miles with extreme accuracy. What does this mean? Destroying three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates with ease. The electromagnetic Lorenz Force enables the gun to accelerate a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed, firing it further than conventional guns and maintaining enough kinetic energy to inflict massive damage. Click here to view the firsat image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the five most popular viral videos today, including a cool Star Wars Episode 8 announcement.

This Looks Like a Small Glass Disc, But it Can Actually Store 360TB of Data for 13.8-Billion Years

By Jackson Chung February 16, 2016

University of Southampton researchers have created tiny glass discs that are capable of storing up to 360-Teryabytes of five dimensional (5D) digital data. Even more impressive is the fact that each one of these discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, and can keep data intact for 13.8-billion-years at room temperature. Documents, like the Magna Carta, are recorded using ultra-fast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is written in three layers of nano-structured dots separated by five micrometers. Continue reading for an up-close image of one of these discs.

Inkas Sentry APC Assault Vehicle is a Tank on Wheels, Perfect for Fighting Zombies

By Jackson Chung February 16, 2016

When nothing but the most heavily armed vehicle will do, the Inkas Sentry APC Assault Vehicle should definitely be on the top of your list. It can be equipped with dual-layers of overlapping bulletproof armor that’s capable of protecting its occupants from 7.62 x 51mm rounds, or in other words, the same ammunition the U.S. military uses in M60 machine guns. Continue reading for more pictures and information.