The Ultimate Hoverhand
| September 25, 2011
Author: luapo
World’s Greatest Drag Race! – Video
| September 25, 2011
With an empty airstrip and eleven of the best driver’s cars in the world, Motor trend puts on the world’s greatest drag race.
How Genetics Work
| September 24, 2011
The past and the future of famous logos
| September 24, 2011
Stock logos reviews history and imagines how Apple and other famous logos will look like in the future.
Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies in Our Mind
| September 24, 2011
The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s brain activity and a library of 18 million seconds of random YouTube video.
Suicide by Roller Coaster
| September 24, 2011
Want to enjoy the ride of your life along with the last ride of your life? That’s what Julijonas Urbonas envisions with his Euthanasia Coaster.
The three-minute ride involves a long, slow, climb — nearly a third of a mile long — that lifts one up to a height of more than 1,600 feet, followed by a massive fall and seven strategically sized and placed loops. The final descent and series of loops take all of one minute. But the gravitational force — 10 Gs — from the spinning loops at 223 miles per hour in that single minute is lethal.
According to Urbonas, the “Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely — with elegance and euphoria — take the life of a human being.”
