Anyone who’s had to measure anything with a tape measure knows the annoyance of losing your grip because of that infuriatingly small hook. So why not make the hook bigger? Why did it take so long to think of this?
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How do you determine how well houses will withstand catastrophic weather? If you’re the insurance industry, you spend $US40 million on a room that can simulate Category 3 cyclones. Then you huff and puff and you blow those suckers down.
Earlier this week, workers excavating the site of the future World Trade Centre unearthed an ancient wooden plank. Then another. Then an entire row, comprising what remains of a 9m long wood-hulled vessel, over 200 years old.
The world’s most exclusive Subway is also cooler than you’d ever thought Subway could be: Fully-functioning, inside a shipping container, delivering sandwiches up and down the full height of the Ground Zero construction – soon to top 100 storeys.
At least, when you set it to opera music. Actually, even when you hit mute, the delicately synchronised way the bridges collapse as the charges fire is beautiful, like ballet. With explosions. [VDOT via BoingBoing]
You’ve already seen the famous fan-made Portal Gun. Now see the entire build process documented in 113 photos (OK, only about 40 of them actually showing the gun in its raw clay form).
We know it was one of you. All the pieces of the puzzle fit. I mean, what kind of person would find the idea of hacking into a digital road sign funny, if not a Gizmodian? Not to mention that we sort of mentioned just how easy the entire process was.
Japan’s cute USB miniaturisations never fail to amaze us, as this small USB construction zone serves to prove once again.
There’s never a ruler around when you need one, but these measurement gloves can conceivably clip to your jacket to always have on the job (you know, like mittens).
