Want to see Mickey Rourke slit someone’s throat while wearing a metal bunny helmet? Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) showed some stunning, crazy, violence-packed footage from his Greek god melodrama The Immortals at WonderCon. More
China’s quality inspection agency has ordered nearly half the nation’s dairy firms to halt production as part of a campaign to clean up an industry that has been blighted by toxic scandals.
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China shuts down nearly half of dairy producers
This is one of those cool “so-thats-how-it-works” projects that is an easy weekend activity to teach yourself (or your kids) the basics of how a battery operates. More
Turning the childhood invisible ink trick on its head, this mod from Make allows you to print out invisible messages with your inkjet printer. More
Just feet from a methadone clinic at a grimy crossroads in far east Portland, Ore., transit officials and police are hoping a touch of class will chase off the vagrants, vandals and ne’er-do-wells that loiter near a busy transit stop.
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Renovo, no stranger to beautifully-crafted wooden bicycles, has partnered up with Audi, maker of beautiful automobiles, to create another sweet looking series of wooden bicycles. More
Oh, Jameson. You trendy, trendy trendsetter. After coercing the entire world of cinema to bow down and worship the art of 3D, it looks as if James Cameron will soon be spearheading the effort to back away from the tried-and-true 24fps shooting method in favor of far faster options. The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that Cameron copped to the idea of shooting Avatar 2 and 3 at higher frame rates, likely 48fps or 60fps. The reason? It’ll provide an “added sense of reality,” and it’ll probably create a wave of new camcorders, software and plug-ins to handle the dirty work. Onward and upward, we suppose.
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Whether you’re on the side of good or evil, you must respect a sick lair. If there’s one thing that brings superheroes, supervillains, and intrepid government employees together, it’s an appreciation for a secure, well-equipped base of operations. More
The AP reports that two gigantic concrete pumps, the largest equipment of this type in the world, will be air-lifted to Japan to help pour water on damaged reactors at Fukushima.
The machines are designed to spray concrete for new skyscrapers, bridges and similarly large-scale construction projects, but they’re being modified to spray water for this use.
“But if a decision is made to encase a reactor in concrete — similar to a method used in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — the machines would be capable of doing that as well,” explained an executive from the company that made them.
They’ll be carried over on an Antonov 225, the world’s heaviest aircraft.
The company, and the devices: “Putzmeister.”
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Giant pumps airlifted on Giant Planes to help with Giant Japan Nuke Crisis. Bonus: They’re “Putzmeisters”