A UK Designer has come up with a full-sized wheel that can be completely folded. Duncan Fitzsimmons' Crossbreed wheel doesn't have the poor-performance delivered by the tiny wheels on folding bikes and despite sounding pretty dangerous it actually works, as you can see in the video.
New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor blade length of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, 12 months, that’s 11,256 kwh per year per house. That’s 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.
The turbine being installed in Emden, Germany by Enercon . They will be testing several types of storage systems in combination with the multi-megawatt wind turbines.
Who would have known that someone will come up with the idea of merging a computer with a piano.
Well, not only someone came up with the idea, but he also made it and put his creation on eBay. It has a 26 inch Philips LCD HDTV monitor 6,8 GGH processor with OS Windows XP Media Center Edition, 1 GB RAM 500 GB hard drive. The “hull” of the computer is a 1904 Chickering Grand Piano. This computer/piano is one-of-a-kind and would make a great gift.
It’s something you don’t see everyday - a toiled encrusted with swarvoski crystals.
It’s creator Jemal Wright is planning to design an encrusted double slipper tub by spring of 2008.
The toilet costs $75,000. Is this just me or is there really demand for such products? On the other hand if you want to show people how wealthy you are, why not put a really unnecessary and expensive thing in a place we all visit on a regular basis.
