I remember having a Spirograph when I was a child, unfortunately mine was second hand and didn’t have all of the bits but I still managed to create to interesting pictures with it. This one, is slightly bigger and works on the same concept. It uses two pendulums suspended from wooden towers which are connected…
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Girls do Prefer Pink
That’s according to this article which suggests females are drawn to pinks and reds and men to blues and greens. Apparently this is due to our hunter gatherer past meaning women’s brains have become fine-tuned to the purples and reds of ripe fruits and berries. Men, on the other hand have developed a preference for…
Car that Can be Driven by Thinking
This is interesting its a car that can be driven by thinking. It requires the driver to wear a headset which is linked to the car’s electronics via wireless technology. All the driver has to do is think that they want to go left or right and the car will respond. It has been developed…
Luxury Birdhouse
If you want to give the feathered friends in your garden a bit of luxury then this birdhouse might be just the thing. With 103 luxury rooms, fly by tunnels and a swimming pool it’s not really your average birdhouse. Made from cedar wood it is an impressive nine feet high. It is made by…
Le Whaf: Food you Inhale
This is interesting, called Le Whaf it is food that you inhale rather than eating. It is pumped out of a machine that resembles a gold fish bowl and enables the user to “eat” as much as they want with hardly any calories. If the article is to be believed it is predicted to be…
Giant Roses Brighten up Manhattan
An artist is installing 38 giant roses across ten blocks in Manhattan as part of a floral project. The roses are made of plaster, wire mesh, PVC tubing, steel, fibreglass resin and brass and are complete with bees, ladybirds, aphids and beetles. The project has been created by artist Will Ryman along Park Avenue between…
Restaurant With a View
This is the view from a new restaurant which has recently opened in Dubai. Called At.mosphere the restaurant is on the 122nd floor of the world’s tallest building. At 1,350 feet from the ground via a minute long elevator ride the restaurant is renowned for its haute cuisine. It’s certainly an impressive view. I think…
Giant Pool Table
This is interesting its a giant pool table. The table which measures one and a half feet high has been built by Steve Wienecke in his garden. It took him 250 hours to create the table. He uses ten pin bowling balls as pool balls.
Wine Bottle that Captures Sediment
This is interesting its a wine bottle that has been designed to catch the sediment at the bottom of the bottle. Chef Martín Berasategui designed it as a way of decanting the wine whilst it is in the bottle. The bottle has a chamber at the base which captures the sediment rather than it being…
Thieves Spend Seven Months Tunnelling into Bank
I was interested to read this article about a bank robbery in Argentina where thieves spent seven months tunnelling into a vault before making off with the valuables. The article likens the robbery to the film The Bank Job in which a similar robbery was portrayed. In the real robbery the thieves dug a 100ft…