If embrace engineer chic, but don’t like lugging all of that gear in your shirt pocket because let’s face it, you can do everything on your Linux laptop anyway, then you might consider the engineer shirt. It comes complete with a compass, calculator, ruler, triangle and pencil – all lovingly embroidered on a shirt that is just the right shade of inoffensive gray. It also includes a graph paper patterned tie, to complete the effect.
Price: $64.99 [Computergear via Nerd Approved]
I only say “working” because this does not work in the same sense that a traditional V8 works – from the controlled explosion of gasoline. This runs on batteries and is made out of Lego Technics, which doesn’t make it any less impressive. In fact it is right up there with the papercraft V12 we featured a while back. A work of Lego art.
Video after the jump.
[Brickshelf via Make, Hacked Gadgets]
This origami V12 engine took approximately two years to design and, one would presume, build. It is constructed almost entirely from paper, though the maker admits that there is a little bit of tape. What is even more incredible is the fact that this sculpture contains moving parts. In fact there is a little more going on here than just some folded paper. (more…)
When it was announced today that INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine had awarded its Product of the Year Award to a fax-to-email gateway service, I did a double-take. All of the fantastic new VoIP technologies and services and products out there, and they choose fax, that crummy, outdated method of transferring low-quality digital copies of paper documents? I checked the date on the press release: maybe it was an old one from a decade ago that had somehow gotten reprinted? Nope, the date was right. The self-proclaimed “VoIP Authority Since 1998™” has given its highest annual accolades to MyFax.
This strikes me like Car & Driver putting a horse-cart fixed up with a 4-cylinder engine on its “5 Best Cars” list, or Mr. Blackwell deciding that layered neon socks and big hair are perfectly fine fashion choices these days. Fax is, for all intents and purposes, a pointless, annoying technology that should have been made obsolete by the internet a half-decade ago. The fastest fax machines out there still take six seconds per page to send. I can send a 250-page PDF file to someone via email in two seconds. Top-of-the-line fax machines use 28.8 modems — just like the one you threw out years ago because it was way too slow.
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The concept car created by Holden and named EFIJY was already a hit last year on an Australian
Motor Show, the good news is that the car will become newsworthy once again. The EFIJY will be exhibited to the public on the US at the North American International Auto Show that will take place in Detroit during December.
EFIJY is a contemporary reincarnation of an iconic Australian-made 1953 Holden FJ sedan, restyled as a low-slung hot rod with a supercharged six-litre V8 engine.
As you can check on the image the design is super cool on the outside and gives that old-school look that traditional car lovers like, but the interior is all high-tech and simple at the same time.
[via GizMag]
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