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Again we feature a documentary from BBC! They just deserve it :) In this awesome clip you can see video recorder from a camera on the bird`s head -even when it`s flying incredibly fast in the woods!- just WOW.
We often hear about electric cars, electric bikes and so other. The common idea is them being very expensive and not much sport-driving savvy. The TESLA Roadster killed the second statement, being a Lotus Elise based electric only breathtaking sportcar (I have been on it, trust me).
Still, it`s priced at about 100k usd! It`s for sure worth them but very few people have 100K on they hands right away..
So, to KILL the statemente about EV being too expensive it comes the homemade, very cheap, very funny, very smart solution!
Homemade ebikes! There is a continuously growing community of people interested in making their very own electric bikes, almost from scratch. You start from adding a cheap hub-motors to your front wheel then you feel you want more and get bigger motor. Again, you want even more and look for better batteries and so on.... This makes you gaindous amount of information about Electric Vehicles and have a lot of fun.
After years thinking in a gas-oriented way all those talks and calculations about Ampere, Volts, Cs, Kv and so on can appear scary at first sight but they are not.
Get involved in amazing forums such as http://endless-sphere.com/forums/! You`ll learn faster than you think and, in a long-term point of view, even save money using less gas.
Here, you can see one of the most "famous" ebiker on the Net in action with his 66 mph (!!) bike. He also made an even faster version it!
Hi! Today we stay on the lolling side and we feature.... *drums rolling* Heidi! She is an Opossum, currently living at the Leipzing zoo in Berlin and she is becoming more and more famous for having crossed eyes. As you can see from the video, she is insanely cute and hundreds of people every week queue to see her! Check it out!
Do you hate spiders?! You may love this! The Tarantula Hawk, a 2 inch long wasp who uses tarantulas as food for its larvae. Yes, this wasp kills tarantulas (sometimes even fighting with them!), drags them into its nest and puts its larvae into it. Very, very raw.
More details/footages can be found on Youtube or wikipedia, I don`t wanna get too graphical here :)
Say goodbye to long, annoyng and useless queues to get from your house to anywhere else... get one of these!
Probably very dangerous, (imagine a crash between tho of those things.. chopped poeple!) but, still, amazing! be the first of your friends to share this!
This impressive piece of robotic Art is in development by AeroVironment to be the first of a new class of aircraft for surveillance ad reconnaissance. The project is sponsored by DARPA. It also has an onboard camera and is remote controlled by a human operator.
For more info (and close up pictures!) about the robotic hummingbird take a look at AeroVironment website! http://www.avinc.com/nano -there you can find all the infos you want about the project and it`s were all the infos in this post originally come from. Be the first of your friend to share this!
Amazing BBC documentary showing a White lady spider in the night. It has the ability of walking of going more than two hundreds meters (220 yards) far from his "home" and go back in a straight line. Its "navigation sistem" is not yet fully understood, it may be using seismic waves to know his position. (almost) for sure it uses vibrations in the ground to send messages to other spiders.
This video is for sure worth the time it takes for you to watch :-)