Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Wienermobile Mini
Oscar Mayer may be going green. Or at least scaling down. Presented is the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile based on a Mini Cooper.
Giants' defensive end Michael Strahan walks us through the new features of this head-turning vehicle in the video below.
Dass whut I'm talkin' 'bout.
Original story here.
(Autoblog)
Real live Simpson's house
A home in Nevada was "Simpsonized" for a contest in 1997. It has since been sold and has been de-Simpsonized by the new owner.
But there's a grunch of pictures of what it looked like right here. It's amazing the amount of detail that's gone into each room of the joint. The car, the logs in the fireplace and the kitchen.
(Funtasticus)
Doctor uses portable drill for brain surgery
Brain surgery with a Bosch. Doctor Henry Marsh is the ultimate plugger; making do with what you got.
Physician Henry Marsh has been using a standard Bosch power drill to do brain surgery. Twice a year, the London-based surgeon assists colleague Igor Petrovich in Kiev, Ukraine where high-end medical equipment, such as a £30,000 medical drill, is unavailable. So Marsh improvised.What a guy. The doctor, I mean. The patient(s) is/are not mentioned.
Read the article here.
(BoingBoing)
Dextre - space station robot
If you've been paying attention to the news, you may have heard that the space shuttle crew were assembling a robot up there.
So what's that all about? What will this robot do?
Check out a short article on this "droid" at Gizmodo right here.
Take this gadget quiz
Bizarre quiz, but fun.
You're given the name (just the name, no picture) of a product. You decide whether it's a torture device or a gadget from Bed Bath & Beyond.
I would suppose that familiarity with the B B & B would give you an edge, but I've never been there (as far as I can remember or admit). Still... my results are below.
10 questions. Untimed.
Ready? Take the quiz here.
(Neatorama)
