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PS3 JailBreak

Mech — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:32:37 +0000

We all have been waiting for someone to hack the PS3, the wait maybe over. A USB modchip for the PS3 has emerged and is design just like a USB flash drive. Which mean we can just plug and play without the need to open up our PS3 that may void the warranty. These mod chip will allow playing of games from nearby storage. Moreover these modchip is compatible with all production models FAT and SLIM. Supports all regions: USA, JAP, PAL and KOREA. Some news release by the manufacturer is that FAT32 is currently supported and they are working on NTFS. They also recommend staying on current firmware and not updating until they have deemed it safe. The dongle is fully updatable. As for Online play does work but they cannot guarantee that it will work with all future titles.

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Ghetto Limo Cobbled Together

Mech — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:00:04 +0000

This limo is G to the H to the E to the double T to the O. Cobbled together from over 2000 parts, this limo is 36 feet long and took 500 hours to make. I guarantee if you show up at your prom in this thing you will NOT be getting any action that night. I think I just gave worried parents of teenagers a great idea- “Son, I’ll pay for the limo and make all the arrangements”.

In actuality this limousine has no engine and was created by a movie prop company for Nissan to show their support for the UK’s clunker car trade-in program.

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A Bus That Goes Right Over Traffic

Mech — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:01:45 +0000

Check out this insane Chinese bus that actually goes right over traffic. Cars go underneath it like a tunnel. It’s almost as if it’s a train riding on it’s own raised tracks. It can hold over 1000 passengers and travel up to 60km/h right over traffic. There’s some sort of alarm warning sign if a truck that’s too tall attempts to drive underneath it. The bus is articulated to allow it to easily turn around corners.

It is tall enough to go over cars yet short enough to still fit under existing overpasses. Because it only requires minimal surface tracks around the outside of the road, it can be built and deployed in 1/3 the time of a true subway. And deployed it will be; in Beijing’s Mentougou district where the first 186km of track will be built later this year.

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Bendable Bicycle Wraps Around Poles

Mech — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:52:55 +0000

Locking up bikes to poles in an urban environment is always a tricky proposition. Often you will see bikes with two locks, one for each wheel and of course the frame. But with this ingenious invention by 21 year old Kevin Scott, the bicycle will fold over itself around the pole:

A ratchet in the seatpost part of the frame is used to tighten or bend the bike’s frame. Once it’s in the curved position, you can use a single lock to secure both wheels and the frame. I’m not sure how rigid a cable pulled frame will be over the long haul (you definitely don’t want it going all limp while you’re riding! that’s what she said) but it’s an interesting idea that should be explored further.

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Aquabike

Mech — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:00:33 +0000

This is a homemade amphibious bike made from water bottles by Li Jin from China. He uses a total of 8 giant water bottles to act as pontoons to make the bicycle to be able to float on water. And the back of the wheel is fitted with paddles so as to propels the bicycle forward.

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Combination of Supercar and Superbike

Mech — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:25:33 +0000

This is by far the weirdest diy i ever seen. The combination of Supercar and Superbike. I wonder is the bike the one controlling the direction or is the car steering wheel responsible for it? This DIY project done by Frenchman François Knorreck, took him over a 10 year span in which he spent over 10,000 hours building it from the frame up. The combining of a car and a bike definitely involve some tricky engineering to balance it properly.

There are a total of 3 exhaust pipes. The hubs and brakes come from a VW Golf GTI, the wheels are from an Audi 80, headlights and blinkers came from BMW and Renault cars, the bike’s headlight comes from a Kawasaki 1000 RX bike, the tail lights from a Citroën Xantia car and that’s a 3CL motorcycle used. The bodywork was made from 63 custom molds.

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Ville, the foldable shopping cart bicycle

Mech — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:30:14 +0000

Bicycle as a form of transport is getting more and more popular now. One minor problem is always hard to find a space to park your bicycle while you go and shop for your grocery.This is the transforming Ville, a bike that can fold in half in order to become a shopping cart. It may not be a cart that can hold a week’s worth of groceries, but if you just need to get enough to fill two baskets, this is probably your deal. Plus you will not need to search for parking space anymore.Yep, it really just makes sense to build a bicycle like this. Unfortunately, it is just a concept at this particular moment.

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Child creates vacuum cleaner-powered Spider-man suit

Mech — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:48:24 +0000

Kids are getting smarter and innovative now. This kid by the name of Hibiki Kono used two 1,400 watt vacuum cleaners so that they have enough power to suck up against a wall. The end result is a super suit that is a little Iron Man and Spider-man at the same time. Maybe his idea should be mass produce for kids. As they always dream of being some marvel super hero. But of course the equipments produce should try to limit the height or have mattresses and harnesses while playing with it.

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Folding Plug

Mech — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:43:44 +0000

Thank to this guy we may have a new type of plug coming in our way. Choi is the person who has design this award winning folding plug plus we must also thank Apple. Choi owns a MacBook Air, and was frustrated with the size of the plug and the fact it put a scratch on his beloved Air. His goal was to create an alternative design as thin as the Air. The new design plug is able to folds flat making it much easier to throw in a bag, and is so small, you can fit three of them into a multi-plug adaptor taking up the same space as a standard UK AC plug.

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Batman Golf Cart

Mech — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:10:24 +0000

Golf is getting more and more popular these days. But the design of golf cart do not seem to have much changes. This just happens to have been created by a Warner Bros employee who works in LA. This batman golf cart definitely feel more robust and fast as compare to the old type of golf cart. Hopefully his creation will soon be a part of the tour of the studio, at least it should be added. There is no current tutorial or any hint on how this was made. This is just a picture that someone captured while on the studio grounds, so there really isn’t much information at all to go with it.

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