Posts Tagged ‘random’

Ghetto Limo Cobbled Together

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

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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Aquabike

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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Child creates vacuum cleaner-powered Spider-man suit

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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CarPuchino: The Coffee Powered Car

It’s the world’s first coffee powered car! The Car-Puchine was created by BBC1’s Bang Goes the Theory program out of a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco. Surprisingly the car can hit up to 60mph.

It takes a little over half a pound of coffee for every mile driven or about 56 espressos per mile (how many frappes per mile is that? about the same?). Cheap coffee costs around $5 per pound, so we’re talking about $10/mile. By comparison at $3/gallon for gas and 25mpg, that’s about 12 cents per mile. And lets hope you don’t want to fill up on Starbucks premium roast…forget about it.

Of course that doesn’t factor in having to stop every 40 miles to add in more coffee grinds and then every 60 miles to change the coffee filters. I’m going to assume you are buying pre-ground coffee and not grinding your own beans, cause that would be just silly. But at least the car probably smells fantastic. You can make back some of that extra cost by saving on car air fresheners and of course coffee breaks.

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