August 5, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Space Travel
Now, I fully realize that this has nothing to do with gadgets, but you should know that both Paul and myself are complete and utter geeks and stuff like this gets us way too excited. We ask you to just humor us. Nasa's Image of the Day for today has...
August 4, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Artwork
Probably not the most airworthy of aircraft, this near full-scale Bell 47 helicopter was built entirely from corrugated cardboard by artist Shannon Goff. Here's a link to more detailed photos of the cardboard 'copter. [via...
August 3, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Artificial Intelligence, Robots Cyborgs
I'm a self proclaimed robot freak and while Googling for homemade gadgets, this is what I found. It's a Dragonfly robot. There are no specs on the site I found it on so no word on whether it actually flies or not, but it would be scary if it did. Enter:...
July 26, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Space Travel
Probably the most expensive gadget ever featured on any gadgets blog anywhere on in the solar system, the space shuttle discovery launched this morning without incident from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From CNN: Discovery roared into orbit this...
July 21, 2005 | In: Aircraft Aviation, Remote Control, Robots Cyborgs, Space Travel
If freaking out your permanently stoned, Project Bluebook/Area 51/Trekkie obsessed neighbors is on your list of favorite things to do on a sunday night, you need to take a serious look at the X-UFO. Firebox.com says: A stabilising gyroscope and four...
