I recently came across a really neat concept for a bike: the swing bike. It has a pivot in the frame, providing another way to turn. This idea has the potential to be really fun on a mountain bike.
I searched around the internet for these, and found that they do actually exist outside the realm of homemade prototypes. Although now discontinued, they were produced for several years in the ’70s.
Check out the video below.
This is a short post for a random quick thought that I had today. I don’t really think that it needs much explaining. Here it is:
“The only diet that works is a budget and the only budget that works is a diet.” – Adrian Corscadden
I now have an official quote!
Any thoughts?
Besides giving Hockey Canada a wake-up call, the Turino Olympics was also the public debut for a promising technology. The substance, d3o, is similar to silly puddy at rest, but instantly hardens on impact, thus creating flexible body armour. This material was incorporated into the ski suits of Canadian and American racers. It is created by the British based d3o labs.
There was a lot of hype about this product during the last Olympics, but news has died down. The wikipedia entry is lacking and is still considered a stub. I am guessing that this is because the product is still under heavy development and d3o labs does not want to release details until all of their patents are secured.
The best application of d3o that I can think of is a flexible laptop sleeve that hardens on impact (patent pending). It would be awesome!
d30 labs, where is my d3o laptop sleeve?????
Here is a video demonstrating the awesomeness of d30:
While condensing my insanely long list of bookmarks today, I came across two guides for growing your own furniture. These were from a while ago, and I haven’t seen these projects get exposure recently.
Grown Furniture offers good instructions on how to ‘train’ and graft trees together to make furniture, like the stool pictured to the left. The instructions aren’t difficult. I would definitely grow one of these if I had my own place right now.
Ready Made Mag used to have a set of instructions on how to sprout a couch like the one seen below. The article has either been taken down or it was buried within the paid subscription part of the site. Nonetheless, instructions aren’t really required for this grass couch. It is totally doable, and the only thing holding me back is the lack of a yard.