What were you doing at age 11? Well, if you’re Heuvel Jr from Finland, you’d be driving a Mitsubishi EVO rally car. Continue reading to see this boy wonder in-action.
He completely bypassed video games like Gran Turismo and Forza, instead jumping right into the driver’s seat of a real rally car. Bravo, kid. Bravo!
[via Jalopnik]
Amazon has the Sharp AQUOS LC46BD80U available for pre-order now, priced at $1999.99 shipped. This makes it “easier than ever to enjoy your favorite movies in spectacular 1080p high-definition quality by including an integrated Blu-ray Disc Player with its BD80 series LCD HDTVs.” Product page.
It combines the convenience of an all-in-one home theater solution with Sharp’s new Superlucent Advanced Super View (ASV) panel for a dramatically bright and crisp picture.
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Reader Katile pointed us to this incredible clip showing a sand fountain. The scientifically correct term for this would be sand geyser, which occurs naturally when there are “deep pressure points of soft sand and steam”. Continue reading to watch.
A group of artists spent countless hours hand-laying tiles on this shower enclosure to depict scenes from Donkey Kong Junior — “each tile’s color and location was based on an individual pixel from a blown-up screenshot of the Nintendo arcade classic.” Click here for one more picture.
Either these guys are big fans of the game, or they get a cheap thrill out of bathing with pixelated baby monkeys staring at their bodies.
That’s right, Steve Wozniak’s Apple PowerBook appeared on eBay and was sold for just $800. According to the seller, it “was the top-of-the-line machine when Woz bought it from Apple — 2 gigs of RAM, and I recently upgraded the hard drive to a 160 gig drive.” Auction page.
It’s those guys from that awful, painful, excruciatingly unfunny webcomic The Joy of Tech! But don’t let that dissuade you, because the PowerBook looks like it did indeed belong to Woz.
[via eBay]
For just $250 on eBay, you could pick up a big chunk of Aerogel, also known as the world’s lightest solid. Put simply, it’s “a low-density solid-state material derived from gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas.” Auction page. Video after the break.
Aerogels are produced by extracting the liquid component of a gel through supercritical drying. This allows the liquid to be slowly drawn off without causing the solid matrix in the gel to collapse from capillary action, as would happen with conventional evaporation.
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The Gemballa Mirage GT Carbon Edition builds upon its predecessor and “boosts power from 612 to 670 HP, taking the top speed up to 208 MPH and the 0-60 time down from 3.5 to 3.2 seconds.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Few other specs of the car are currently known, but we’d expect a significant decrease in weight thanks to all the carbon. Or at least we would if we were going to open our wallets for one.
[via Jalopnik]
Lined with “18-carat yellow gold and 6.6 carats of diamonds”, the iPhone 3G Kings Button could be the most expensive handset ever, priced at a whopping $2.5-million. No word yet on availability.
Whoever buys it, please call us, fly us to your palace, and let us slap your face. Then, please invite us to a two year vacation in your yacht and we will forgive you.
[via Gizmodo]
Slated for release on the Nintendo DS in March 2009, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars will let gamers experience a whole new viewpoint, with a rotatable camera angled down at the playing field. Continue reading for the new trailer.
Built by Logicdustbin of the CGCC forums, the iDream started out as an iMac that was gutted and then stuffed with SEGA Dreamcast hardware. In addition to cramming the Dreamcast inside, this modder also swapped out the original CRT monitor for a much lighter LCD panel. Continue reading for more pictures and a video. Or, you can view the images here in gallery format.
(Thanks, Lana)