How do you get a boat from Florida to the Mediterranean? Easy—just put it on another boat. The Yacht Express is a semi-submersible float-on/float-off yacht carrier, now carrying 18 yachts on its first trans-Atlantic voyage. At 209-meters long, it’s the largest yacht transport in the world. (And the only that’s purpose built just for yachts.)
With gold once again nudging the $1000 per ounce mark, Hong Kong jewelry dealer Hang Fung’s famous solid gold throne might be melted down and turned into something more sellable. The world’s poshest potty is said to be worth a cool $32 million, quite the golden flush. While I’m pretty sure nobody has actually used the loo for its intended purpose, I think it would be best if they didn’t advertise the source of the gold once it’s turned into bullion.
From Ryan Gallagher’s Camera Toss Blog:
- Use “timer function” or longish exposure setting.
- Depress the shutter button (timing depends on your technique).
- Throw your camera into the air during or just before it exposes.
- Catch camera (optional).
More from the Flickr pool.
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Remember those PimpStar rims that seemed like the perfect car accessory as long as you were 15? Well now 15 year olds can pimp their own rides, with a simplified version of the PimpStar concept designed for bicycles.
The MonkeyLectric wheel light system comes in two forms, the standard Monkey Light which can make all kinds of cool patterns, and the Video Pro which can display non-rotating images kind of like the PimpStar rims. Best of all, while the Video Pro runs a cool $2k, the standard version is a mere $60, pretty cheap for having the baddest bike on the block.
MonkeyLectric, via Gizmodo
Norio Fujikawa is letting his design speak for itself, without offering up details on how it’d run or creating a backstory to go along with it. With that in mind, I’ll just say I find his design, which tapers backward from a wide, flat nose, is interesting as it seems to be the reverse of what we normally see.
As you look over the Scout, compare it to some of these other wild designs we’ve showcased and see what you think:
• The Audi Shark, another rad hovercar
• A French axle-less car that seems just as unlikely to be realized
• An all-terrain racer that looks like a match for the Scout
• The little brother of the Scout, a flying motorcycle
Check out more of Norio Fujikawa’s Scout in the gallery down below.
Universal Display, based out of New Jersey, is partnering up with LG to make a wrist-mounted OLED display that bears a striking resemblance to the Pip-Boy 3000 from Fallout. You wear it like a watch, yet it has a roomy 4-inch bendable screen and it weighs half a pound, so it’s got some heft to it.
Other than helping people track their way across post-apocalyptic wastes, Universal Display’s vibrant color screen would be great for video, whether the company plans for this to be a communication device for professionals, or a consumer unit for folks who don’t mind looking goofy.
Tech-On, via CrunchGear
Whether it uses carbon nanotubes to mimic geckos’ feet or not, there’s no doubt that the surface of the Palm Pre’s inductive Touchstone charger is really, really impressive. It’s doesn’t feel gummy or tacky, either.
Previously ⌦ Gecko-inspired glue
⌦ Hang your living room from the ceiling with Gecko Glue
Most of the time an LCD display will serve your TV-watching needs. But there are special movies that you only want to project onto the biggest screen you can get. Acerbis must have been thinking about that when it designed the New Concepts Composition, a classy solution for the coexistence of flat panels and front-projection screens.
This attractive floating console supports a flat panel for everyday viewing, but when you’re ready for the big guns, a secret door opens up, and out pops a huge projection screen, rising up as if by magic. The modular concept offers a variety of configurations with integrated lighting, sideboards and wall shelves; let’s hope there’s a 100-inch screen in there somewhere.
If Japan’s number one telecommunications company NTT has its way, there could be a modular cellphone in your future, with various attachments that give the phone magical new powers. The star of the company’s soothsaying is the flexible scroll attachment pictured here, giving you a big color screen to read the newspapers and magazines (and blogs) of 2015.
Take a look at this video, showing a couple of strange ideas NTT predicts we’ll be writing about six years from now:
Let’s hope this XM-25 rifle with its smart bullets doesn’t find its way into enemy hands. The system is clever enough to detonate its exploding 25mm bullets within 3 feet of their targets, picking off unfortunate foes with uncanny accuracy, even when they’re hiding behind obstacles.
After calculating the target’s distance with a laser rangefinder, this lethal weapon sends a radio signal to a chip inside the bullet. That brilliant projectile can precisely measure the distance it’s traveled, exploding at precisely the right distance for maximum killage. Ouch.
The U.S. military will begin field testing this crazy tech this year, with the goal of rolling it out on battlefields everywhere in a couple of years. Let’s just hope U.S. troops won’t need to be on battlefields then.
Via Gizmowatch
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