“They’ll turned this into a Hollywood movie one day… and they’ll fu*k it up.”

“This is one ship that didn’t make much of a splash – because it was made out of Tetra Pak food packaging and sank on its maiden voyage. Its captain and designer was conceptual artist Frank Bolter, who bravely set sail in the vessel today along the Kark-Heine canal in Leipzig, Germany. The ship sank after just a few hours – and 41-year-old Bolter went down with it, as all brave captains should.” w/ photos

“Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.”

“Designer David Stockton’s EcoWash is a compact dishwasher meant for campers and the like, being portable, hand-cranked and able to operate with very little water. Honestly? I’d probably use this thing in my apartment, too. EcoWash keeps it simple: just load in your plates and utensils — yep, even those! — fill the thing with water and then start cranking. Sure, it’s no high-powered suburban dish-destroying machine that’ll wipe out half a leftover casserole, but for someone on a hike or even someone living alone, it’s pretty nifty. To Stockton’s mind, the EcoWash would come with a set of plates and cutlery specifically designed to fit the unit, too, though we imagine if you can fit the plate you can wash it.” w/ photos

“EduBot’s legs are made out of carbon fiber, and by changing the location of a slider along the leg, the overall stiffness of each leg can be adjusted independently. Of course, once the stiffness of the legs changes, EduBot has to adapt its gait to match, which it does all by itself by analyzing its own speed, efficiency, and stability. A bunch of different experiments were performed to help the robot learn what leg stiffnesses and gaits produced the most desirable movement patterns on different surfaces and while carrying different loads, and generally the robot was able to figure out what worked best within 70 tries worth of experimentally fiddling with its own programming. I say “generally,” because sometimes it took longer, and because watching the robot failing to use the correct gait is pretty funny…” w/ photos + video

“Bullshit, only because an Asian manufacturer could possible make so much shit fit in a small package.” — MegaSlammo

“Merging the mechanical and the organic, Montréal-based artist Daniel Proulx created these amazing steampunk spiders from pieces of brass, copper, gemstones and antique clock parts. It’s amazing to see how leftover wire pieces, springs, bolts, screws and other objects you might find in your garage or toolbox can be transformed into extraordinary steampunk creations — at least in Proulx’s capable hands. Nothing is safe from Proulx’s creative gaze, having turned a vintage music box, various old watches, a miniature telescope and even a Swiss Army knife into amazingly creepy steampunk spiders!” w/ photos

“Floating islands? It may sound like something out of a Jonathan Swift novel, but to the Uros people it is a fact of every day life. This small tribe of South American indigents retain a great deal of a culture that goes back millennia and one whose unique domestic arrangements stem from that age old fear – the dread of suppression by other, stronger and more populous peoples.” w/ photos

“Holy Shit, that is a blue sky.” — theycallmenavid

“The Descent by Casio G-Shock, is an adventure video shot in Lauterbrunnen and Kandersteg Switzerland demonstrating the cohesive relationship between man, nature and technology.” — gshockus