An animated short by Tao Tajima shot on the streets of Tokyo.
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The $250,000 Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition, which has been contested unsuccessfully by all manner of chopper boffins since 1980, has been won by the first human-powered helicopter to fulfill all three of the American Helicopter Association’s criteria, namely: a flight lasting at least 60 seconds, rising at least once to a height of 3m while maintaining its centre-point inside a 10m square.
Last month, the AeroVelo team from the University of Toronto hovered their Atlas pedal-powered quadrotor (which measures a massive 47m across but only weighs 54kg) for 64.1 seconds and reached a maximum height of 3.3 meters.
AeroVelo, University Of Toronto Team, Win Human Powered Helicopter Flight Competition (HuffPo)
Brisbane beatboxer Tom Thum (recorded at TEDxSydney at the Sydney Opera House last May), as the Guardian stated at the time, sounds like he ‘swallowed an entire orchestra and several backing singers’.
This by way of scratched vinyl, the Michael Jackson back-catalogue, the didgeridoo and an entire fifties jazz band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsqFR5bh6Q
Sharknado – yet another straight-to-SyFy disaster/monster orgy of goodness.
‘We can’t just wait here for sharks to rain down on us.’
Oh yes you can.
You’ll recall such previous classics as Piranhaconda and Megashark Versus Crocosaurus.
Previously: Coming Soon
The Powered Jacket MK5 by Japanese company Sagawa Electronics – 12.5 million yen’s worth of teen-protecting mecha-goodness and the single best promotional video you’ll see for a thing that couldn’t possibly be real.
And yet the ‘manufacturer’ has already planned a live public demonstration at Wonder Festival 2013 at the end of this month.
So there’s that, too.
New York comedy team The Bilderbergers opening salvo in their Thingstarter’ Kickstarter parody series with a patented solution to the perennial ‘wet penny’, among other things.
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Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood by Lara Gallagher and Andrew Ellmaker presents three family vignettes ‘acted out’ by expressionless wooden skittles on miniature sets.
Which shouldn’t work. But somehow does.
Storytelling is all.
According to Melbourne restauranteur Paul Mathis, the word ‘the’ should be interchangeable with the new symbol “Ћ” (just as ‘and’ is represented by ‘&’) not only because the most used word in the English language deserves its own symbol, but also, slightly more tenuously, to make texting and typing faster.
He’s already invested AUS$75,000 in a mobile app to help make it happen.