Turns out if you have a Smart Car the answer is yes. Check this pretty cool promotional stunt involving a pair of Smart Cars playing Ping Pong designed to showcase the fun and mobility of the small automobiles.
[via Walyou]
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Now the kids playing stickball in the street can break your window and television with one foul ball.
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Okay, that may not have been the Mythbusters‘ plan, but damn if things didn’t go wrong as their attempt to disprove cannons can shoot any material ended up by sending a cannonball 700 yards off-course into a residental neighborhood where it went through a house, bounced off the road, and then a roof, before finally smashing into a parked mini-van. Following the series of events future episodes of the show have been put on hold pending a full investigation.
MythBusters Cannonball Experiment Gone Wrong… Hits Houses and Car in Dublin, CA
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Eli Pariser discusses the unintended consequences of web companies tailoring their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes.
Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”
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Kevin Slavin discusses how contemporary math, specifically algorithms, shape our world.
Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
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Ladies and gentlemen meet the JediBot created by Stanford University students to prove one thing: robots who can fight with lightsabers are pretty damn cool.
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Casey Putsch of Putsch Racing has built the world’s first turbine-powered Batmobile by inserting a military spec Boeing turboshaft engine inside the custom chassis. Well done, sir!
World’s only actual turbine powered Batmobile via Like It Cool
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In honor of the final takeoff of Atlantis, the final space shuttle launch, NPR gives us this compilation using footage of the space shuttle program from the past three decades.
A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The Decades
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Didn’t they suck?
Oh, it’s real! And it’s spectacular. Chris Malloy of Australia claims to have built the world’s first fully-fuctional hoverbike. Check out more pics here.
[via Like It Cool]
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Okay, I would drive this car. From Finnish designer Antti Eskeli comes the Maininki concept car which can transform from a compact vehicle into a more roomy sedan at the touch of a button (or three). And it doesn’t look too shabby, either! Check out more pics here and here.
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