Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Well now you can show your mood while putting back some much needed coffee or tea (of whatever else you wanna put in these things). Thabto has created Mood Mugs, which display a mood right on your coffee cup. Whether you’re happy, sad, or still tired, you’ll be able to let people know without having to tell them yourself.
At TechVert, we’re big fans of creative business cards, and we’ll be showcasing a lot more as time goes on. For now, we’d like to show off this new business card by photographer, Steph Goralnick. She embedded a film negative between two layers of heavy stock for an event for emerging photographers. Who would throw away a card like that? Good job Steph!
This awesome video, shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, shows champion freediver Guillaume Néry base jumping underwater at Dean’s Blue Hole. The sinkhole, located in the Bahamas, is the second deepest underwater sinkhole in the world at 663 feet to the ocean floor.
The video was shot by Julie Gautier who happens to also be a freediving champion from France. The video, while it looks like a single dive, was actually shot over four days. So far, no freediver has ever made it to the bottom of the ocean floor at Dean’s Blue Hole. Ten bucks for the first person that can do that… or do this.
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Here’s an awesome stop-motion Super Mario video made entirely out of post-it notes. The video was created by students in Japan for about 5,000 yen (around $55). They pretty much nailed all the actions from the game. The project took two weeks to put together for a school festival. Only thing missing? Bowser.
Oh, and if you’re into it, here’s another awesome video game hack.
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Sure you’ve seen the old penny-farthing cycles from years past, the ones with the large front wheel and the small rear one, but you’ve never seen one quite like the Monsterbike.
The makers of this cycle have created the ultimate mix of green transportation and the metal culture… which is a combination you don’t see often. It is able to ride in the bicycle lane even though the rider is at heights above most all other vehicles on the road. Pedestrians, as well as compact cars, will surely be running from your path when you ride this thing.
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We’ve all got digital time displays now (and some of us have $15,000 bullet proof watches) so no need to learn how to read clocks and whatnot. But, if you’re a historian, or a plain old clever guy or gal, maybe some of these complicated and unique time displays will tickle your fancy. Enjoy!
Interpreting dates from this calendar would be a Herculean task, taking into account the irregular date formats. The duration of the month is different, the year is different, and pretty much everything else. Thank god, that a day still represents 24 hours!!
Who wants to go fast? A wind-powered car has just been measured in the U.S. traveling downwind, get this… faster than the wind itself. The astonishing run finally answers a question that has been debated upon for quite sometime without a clear answer. That is, Can an object travel downwind faster than the wind?
In the run which took place in Tracy, California at New Jerusalem, the car, made of foam reached a speed of 2.85 times faster than the wind which at the time was traveling at 13.5 mph.
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So, this is definitely not practical or even a conceivable alternative if scaled, but it is definitely cool. EepyBird, the guys that brought us the original Diet Coke and Mentos videos are at it again, this time with a vehicle powered by the pair. Just 108 2-liters and a whole bunch of Mentos later, and they’ve done it.
The vehicle directs the explosion toward a solid wooden wall allowing the vessel to propel itself forward using nothing but Mentos, Diet Coke, and a little ingenuity. We’ve embedded the video below. Enjoy!
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