When you’ve got hacked Kinect and two Tesla coils at your disposal, you’re just an evil cackle away from being a fully credentialed evil genius. The 50Hz-200Hz coils here have been rigged to respond to your (sinister) hand movements, giving you the illusion of pure madness. Or just nicely accentuates the madness you’re already rocking. [Adafruit via Make]
While Tesla built many of his inventions, many others were left as designs and patents that were never completed. Of course, these were the weirdest ones. This video shows them in three dimensions. After watching it, I’m now convinced he was a stranded visitor from the future.
In May, Toyota stated its intention to invest $US50 million in electric car maker Tesla Motors. Today the companies announced that Tesla will produce an electric version of the Rav4 SUV for Toyota in 2012.
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Today is inventor extraordinaire Nikola Tesla’s 154th birthday. To celebrate, someone made this brief video overview of Tesla’s life, including a lengthy digression on how Thomas Edison was a “jerk”. Is this, I wonder, our very first Tesla fanboy?
