The water jetpack is made of plastic bottles (with water) which is tied together. Then the genuises built up pressure in the water, releasing it thus launching the lab rat over 200 miles an hour.
The look on the guy’s face around 26 seconds is priceless.

Life’s a bitch.

It is actually a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. That geek just broke my brain!

Japan’s largest shipping company, Nippon Yusen, has unveiled a cargo ship outfitted with enough solar panels to produce 40 Kilowatts of power.  Named the Auriga Leader, the energy comes from 328 solar panels outfitted on top of the ship which set the company back about $1.7 million dollars.  While 40 Kilowatts is a huge sum [...]

Damn! (NSFW)

This Japanese snow monkeys who are the most northerly non-human primate in the world loves to do nothing more than keep warm in a steaming-hot spring in Yamanouchi, central Japan.
The inviting-looking spring is in a ski resort town.

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have succeeded in partially translating brain activity in humans into images.  “While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds.”  They honed the computer [...]