Wow! That's bloody awesome!

One of my favorite places to relax/visit in Prague when I lived there, the Strahov monestary library, captured in a 360 high-quality pic

http://www.360cities.net/gigapixel/strahov-library.html

Cool/weird medical conditions

Woman with perfect memory

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story? ... 881&page=1

Man with no short-term memory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNDRDJy ... re=related

Boy with ridiculous brain (great docu)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbASOcqc ... re=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet

He recites pi to 22.000+ places in the docu.

Boy who sees without seeing (blind, uses a form of echolocation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLziFMF4DHA

And almost esoteric, but quite staggering nonetheless: a child claiming to remember a past life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRs7fXj ... re=related

And to finish, Wim Hof, who can withstand extreme cold (tried to climb the Everest in his shorts)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madoDvtKEes

Trump of all cool posts

Awesome airbag for cyclists. They just had to use my car for testing purpose. Notice one of wipers on the front light is stuck in a wrong position, classic fault of the 93 series.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/airbag-bicy ... 10671.html

that's actually pretty cool and could be really useful. Though I had to laugh at the face plant part of the video. I'm not sure the stylish inflato-helmet would do any good for that.

That does look pretty cool, but also kinda weird. I wonder at what impact speeds the thing would be too slow to properly expand. I mean it's almost instantaneously clearly, but there must be a limit to its reaction speed. Also, would it expand upon crashing with your bike? I did that so many times, and I imagine having that thing cover your head almost freaks you out more than the crash itself.

(bike crashes aren't too bad in 90% of all cases, only car collisions are truly dangerous for cyclists)

Did you watch the whole video? It inflates any time the guy gets so many degrees off of straight. They show some examples with him falling forward or sideways... so yes, it should work with a bike crash. As for speed, I'm betting if you're getting hit hard enough that deployment speed becomes an issue, the helmet's not gonna help you much anyway.

Now, Ox can ride his bicycle home drunk without having to worry about ending in a ditch.

lol. Nothing like a drunken bike ride to protect you from car crashes! Honestly though, I've seen lots of people crash their bikes in my lifetime, many of them drunk, and none of them ever had a permanent injury as a result. I'm sure it's possible, but like I said, unless you hit a car you're probably gonna be fine without a helmet or airbag. In the big city though...

pictures of the Curiosity Mars rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Many more images at the link, and explanations.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/06/na ... ce-la.html

Japanese make awesome commercials for...what?



If you don't recognize the song

Heh that was kinda cool - I'd love to do something like that.

Awesome vid ox.

yea, cool vid, still not digging the music though.