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Bio Batteries: Nokia Cell phone that runs off Coke

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:48:39 +0000

New Bio Battery design by DAIZI ZHENG allows for sugar and enzymes to generate enough power to run a cell phone. bi-product is water and Oxygen. On a large scale this could provide for clean energy backup for electric.

Thanks to The Design Blog for posting this

See infrared light with theater gels - Make cheap nightvision glasses!

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:21:35 +0000

This could make some serious high tech mods on variety of things, get some superbright infrared bulbs and wear some cheap theater-gelled glasses to see the light. AMAZING

How to Make Night Vision Glasses - Amazing videos are here

Ingenious CorkScrew Tube Snow Tractor

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:59:31 +0000

This is really amazing, assuredly because the large tubular drivers don’t sink in very high snow, and really skate across the top. [Shared by BSchmoltz]

Armstead Snow Motors from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.

Changing a VW belt in 5 seconds

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:56:18 +0000

Great little trick here, too bad no one drives these 1967 cars much anymore, too easy to fix!

[shared by dDalzell, thanks]

Mythbusters prove Golf-ball dimpled car gets better MPG

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:10:58 +0000

This is a long video to watch, but very well done, and proves if you somehow produced a dimpled shape on your car, it could improve your gas mileage (drag) by as much as 11% as quoted in the show. Very cool

5th wheel for parallel parking - Brilliant

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:14:41 +0000

wonder if he has a hand crank to move that wheel, or an electric motor…

DEN Dat IS Fixed

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:27:11 +0000

[from http://thereifixedit.com/2009/06/11/epic-kludge-photo-mmmm-pringles/]

1987 Toyota Supra Head Gasket

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:33:41 +0000

1987 Toyota Supra non-turbo automatic, has serious combustion gases in the cooling system, prompting a lovely orange-rusty milkshake in the cooling passages. Here’s the work today:

Supra

Pretty basic really, difficult parts being taking the starter out, gotta love those studs that have to be held on bot sides when removing the nuts, the prybar in the ring gear worked wonders on removing the crankshaft pulley bolt. Had to head to the toolshop to get a 3-jaw to remove the pulley. Head came off easy, though oil in the hex heads made a hydraulic pressue which prevented fully seating the socket, almost rounded off number 4 bolt on inital bolt break. All head bolts look clean, number 12 was very low torqued for some reason, this car is 90K with everything stock, including the timing belt.

It’s a cool thing when you can prove that the head can come out with just pushing the fuel rail and the lower intake manifold aside, and just prying away the exhaust manifold.

Cleaning tomorrow, head gasket and timing belt on order, expected return to road: next week!

Prius Plug-In Conversions limited to grassroots

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:02:16 +0000

The Dealerships “couldn’t move forward” on the plug-in conversion. From the Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123059301640740831-lMyQjAxMDI4MzMwMDUzOTAzWj.html

Wisconsin company creates constant light-emitting substance

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:46:25 +0000

This is cool, non-toxic and non-radioactive, attach this luminescent stuff to a photovoltaic and you have a low-voltage constant supply (for up to 24 years).

Nice, well could be used for clocks, little battery chargers, et al…

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=2692