When I first read “Infinity Desk”, I thought of infinity pools melding into the sunny horizon and was pulled up slightly short… but the dark, bottomless look is quite cool, if vaguely unsettling (“a TRON version of the Sarlacc pit” as someone writes below.)
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Impossible Objects has long been a popular series on the blog, and it was inspired by the French artist Jacques Carelman.
When the series started it was quite hard to see his work online, but a new site is showcasing his work. They say they are making some of it…
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Topics covered include extreme forms of testing, a vertical ship, telecom bills and an oversized…
In stepped, as we wrote at the time, the James Randi Educational Foundation to issue a million dollar challenge to the company behind the detector, Cumberland Industries, of the UK, to prove “successful testing” of the device.
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“As an FYI, the FIA Journal, the newsletter of the FIA Institute, which seeks to develop and improve motor-sport safety and sustainability, has just published an article aiming to use accelerometers to learn more about crashes and make F1 cars safer.”
Testing is a recurring theme of the blog, and this is an interesting example of testing in extremis. Check out FLIP, the “Floating Instrument Platform”, which can change from a horizontal to a vertical orientation.
In a similar vein to the recent Brain Collider Experiment, check out details of this website featuring the apparently much covered-up Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy. What do you mean, you are not aware of the DHMO issue?
How cool is this? Or is it just massively OTT? It’s an F1 racing simulator that is effectively an F1 car. And it costs a pretty penny.
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Topics covered include some old favourites such as luggage handles, Lithium-Ion batteries and engineering mistakes, as well as some newer ones…
Check out this excellent video which summarises the history of the project. The aims of the Institute for Centrifugal Research, based in Florida, may be worthwhile but I do wonder about a few details of their methodology.