Giant air cannon
Friday, March 7th, 2008These guys claim it’s “…the world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon.”
These guys claim it’s “…the world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon.”
This may be one of those times where the image and concept is more interesting that the final product. I mean, what could you actually do with a mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch? Project Page via Gizmodo, via Make.
You have got to see this thing to believe it. It fires 40 rubber bands per second and has a maximum range of 22 feet.
Lengthy article on how to build your own Bender beer brewery which includes a rather unfortunate placement of the spigot.
Print, cutout and assemble a pretty nicely detailed Halo dropship. Download via paperkraft.net

From Die Gestalten Verlag via gizmodo.com
For a new art project, the designer Martin Postler has investigated the history, the aesthetics and the lethal seductiveness of the Kalashnikov. He has freed the AK-47 from its terrible capacity to injure and kill by deconstructing it into a paper model construction set. At the end of the construction process each person can decide if they would like to hang their own AK-47 on the wall, paint it, customize it with stickers or simply burn it. Then ultimately this AK-47 thankfully remains a piece of paper.
