March 2018
Spooky Slippers
In this traditional Japanese inn, guests are scared when they see the slippers roll through the room.No sorcery or anything but a clever stunt from Nissan! And it is not only with the slippers …
3D-printed house
It sounds like future music, but it really will not be long before we can download a house and then have it built with a 3D printer.For example, there is a Texas start-up that has developed a method to erect a 60-square-meter house within 24 hours.The best thing is also the price, as it should…
Selfdriving Waymo’s (Google) cars
In the American city of Phoenix, Waymo’s cars have been around for quite a few months, the branch of Google that works on autonomous means of transport.Recently some lucky birds got the chance to take a ride in the self-driving car, with the video below as a result.It is striking to see that the subjects…
LEGO-armprothese
In this video of Great Big Story we meet David Aguilar, a teenager from Andorra who is now better known as Hand Solo.With the help of LEGO parts he built an arm prosthesis that enables him to pick up objects, open doors and perform all kinds of other actions.Although he initially looked strange at school…
Netflix: original series ‘Nightflyer
Netflix announces the new original series ‘Nightflyers’, after the book by George R. R. Martin.The series takes place in the future, on the eve of the earth’s downfall.A crew of scientists goes on a mission with the most advanced spaceship of the universe, The Nightflyer.Their goal: to intercept a mysterious extraterrestrial spacecraft that can save…
3-D printed electric car
This 3-D printed electric car costs €7700 and took three days to make.The mass production of 3-D printed cars is coming soon. The first will be from start-up XEV and Polymaker, a developer of 3-D printing materials. The €7700 car, called LSEV, only took three days to make according to the company.All of the components…
Sexy wine commercial
I don’t drink wine, but after this commercial I might be thinking about drinking it. From her body 😉 If they deliver it with this sexy chick then the beer companies will have a hard time.
TV presenter eats candy floss in an incredible three seconds
You can never underestimate a woman’s capability when it comes to a competition of eating sweets. A television presenter (An Qi) from China devoured a candy floss in three seconds while having an eating contest with her guest on a entertainment show. The quick-thinking host (An Qi)took the candy floss out of a stick and put…
People Who Deeply Regret Shopping Online 1
Online shopping is great! The convenience and prices are second-to-none, and there is a whole world of exciting new retailers to try. There are downsides too, the environmental concerns of shipping a set of 50 cent hairclips over from China are real, especially if everyone starts doing it. What will happen to your local stores?…
When Chinese knock offs go too far
You don’t have to travel to France to check out the Eiffel Tower or the Mona Lisa, or the next best thing. China has built a replica of Paris 6000 miles away from the famous European city. Looking at the photos, an average tourist might find think he is in the wrong country.. French photographer…
Someone Made A Stereotypical Map Of Europe Based On Chinese Searches
All of us have heard a stereotypes about your own countries, and it’s no secret that we’ve heard some stereotypes about other countries too. Some of them are positive, for example, Germans have the best beer, Belgians have incredible waffles or that Italy makes the best pizzas. But you never know what somebody thinks about your…
LEGO Plants now made from Real Plants
If you buy Lego boxes with plants and trees later this year, chances are they are made of sugar cane.The green elements are technically the same as their plastic counterparts, but are produced in an environmentally responsible way.The intention is that all Lego parts will be made in this way in 2030, so that the…
Haliade-X: The biggest offshore windturbine in the world
It is beginning to dawn more and more that we have to be a lot more economical with regards to the way we deal with our planet.GE Renewable Energy contributes a bit with the Haliade-X, an unreal large windturbine for use in offshore wind farms.The windturbine has a height of no less than 260 meters…
Wooden retro Commodore Pet
The Swedish industrial designer Love Hultèn has made it his job to provide devices with a retro jacket and sell them for a lot of money as design items.A good example is his Commodore PET 2001, a variation on a computer that came out in 1977.The modern Commodore PET is equipped with a modern computer,…
The new televisions from Samsung are hiding on the wall
Although modern televisions are regularly very tightly designed, it remains ugly to hang such a black hole on your wall. The high-end QLED TVs from Samsung change this thanks to the so-called Ambient Mode. With the help of sensors, the surface of the wall on which the television hangs is imitated, so that the device…
Trash Robot
The Trash Robot launched on Kickstarter is a brilliant way to make polluted rivers cleaner: it can be controlled remotely by every internet user, where points are obtained if trash is fished out of the river. You log on to a page, after which you gain control over the robot. Then you send the Trash…
Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg’s largest model train track in the world.
A few years ago we reported here about Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg’s largest model train track in the world.With a length of more than 15 kilometers and a total distance of over 10 million kilometers covered by the trains, it is absolutely a highlight.The video in which this world record was unveiled brings the model train…