Footage of hard core, poker-faced slot nerds and their insanely quick mini-motors at the 2013 Wing Car World Championship at Buena Park Raceway, Buena Park, California last May.
The 1:24 scale slot cars run at 12V and can reach speeds of up to 75mph (120km/h).
Previously: That’s Not Scalextric, THIS Is Scalextric
The iPhone Controlled Bug ($40 each) from iHelicopters syncs (within a range of 6 meters) to an iPhone/iPad app for all your remote scuttling needs.
Yes, they should be able to fly, shouldn’t they?
And shoot tiny poison-tipped darts too.
Quantum Pirate tweetz:
These new twitter email notification settings are quite good.
Previously: Mad About Mambo
Dolly Parton aficionados have long since discovered the bonus awesomeness of slowing down the singer’s records to highlight the complexity and nuance of her voice.
In case you’ve never heard it, her 1973 classic Jolene slowed down from 45rpm to a brooding 33rpm – as someone on BBC R4 recently put it – is especially ‘full of win’.
A series of short motion-capture idents for the CCTV documentary channel created by Taiwanese design house JL Design and KORB.
Tastiest in full screen with HD on.
Related: Street Fighter Motion Capture
Beatboxer Darren ‘Beardyman’ Foreman demonstrates the BeardyTron5000 – a looping, layering music system designed to increase the efficiency of how he do by factoring out the ‘restrictions of his human body’.
Yes it is a bit Reggie Watts meets Michael Winslow.
Previously: Make Some Noise
Previous TEDboxing: Tom Thum: Unreal Beatboxer
A familiar piece of transdimensional street furniture on the Earls Court Road in London.
Maxi writes:
[Go here and] click the two white arrows in front of the phone box :)
When a road grader and a transport truck collided, far from the nearest fire station on a remote stretch of the Trans-Labrador highway in Canada, a water bomber was sent to deal with the blaze consuming the cab of the truck.
Which it did.
Both drivers survived.
Send Me To Heaven is an Android app that encourages you to throw your expensive smartphone as high in the air as you can (hopefully catching it without damaging it before it hits the ground), recording the altitude as a score on a leaderboard.
The app only works with ARMv7 phones. Turning on GPS allows you to compete with other idiots nearby.
Apple has already refused to endorse it.
