How much power does a man need to make summer cocktails? How many Hawaiian short-sleeve shirts? How much badassery? NOT ENOUGH, I SAY! Which is why I need this blender, made with an old-school 1958 Johnson outboard motor: More »
Anyone with a boat powered by a vintage Johnson motor will tell you that a well-maintained outboard engine can last decades. When its does finally die, don’t discard it. Convert it into the best-looking blender ever. More »
This Lego replica of a Star Wars Sandwalker ranks right up there with some of the best Lego creations we have seen. More »
There’s a certain feeling of power that comes from upgrading a piece of tech. I assume that that feeling is amplified tenfold when the pimping in question is the act of applying a motor to something that probably didn’t need a motor in the first place. And if you’ve done that kind of thing, there’s a new show looking for you. More »
With a 200cc lawnmower engine, a handmade propeller, and some spare paraglider parts (that he just happened to have kicking around?), Russian tinkerer Sergei Khvalin created a cross-country skiing rig that can send him zipping across the snow at speeds of 40km/h. More »
Missed in the FCC teardown, it appears the latest iPod Touch has a puzzling new addition to its family of components: a vibrating motor? Apple claims it’s for alerting a user to a FaceTime request. [iPodTouchFans via 9to5Mac via MacRumors]
Using a single Lego motor and a whole heap of gears and Lego to ramp up the speed, this ping pong launcher will push out ping pong balls fast enough for any would be Forrest Gump to practice their returns. Oh, Lego: Is there anything you can’t do?
[Thanks Daryl!]
The tiny Proteus motor, at only 2.5 times the width of a human hair, is small enough to enter the bloodstream and perform duties previously requiring some surgical slice-and-dice.
