Friday, March 6, 2009

Fun gets serious

Fun gets serious

The following is a range of fun to serious, low tech to the high tech, free to million dollar toys, funny to not so funny. It is amazing what some people play with.


Inflatable street sculpture
Recycled bags on subway vents make international sensation. Joshua Allen Harris has made a several creatures that use the streets of New York as a zoo.




Lochness monster

Giraffe


Banksy's "Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill"



Pet store website

more in-depth look at this amazing art work click here

and here

more here

artists website


Kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum





Mind Control Device Demonstration
Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv Systems, gives a live demo of a mind control device that uses a person's thoughts to input computer commands. This has light use in gaming, but larger application for quadriplegics. For demo jump to 9:10




The consumer version is a lot sexier
Click here to see it


Toys That Make Their Way into Combat
This guy finds ways to make superior weapons at a fraction of the cost using toys available at Toys-r-us! Genius is not even the right word to describe Ralph Osterhaut… Scary Brainiac with a mission would be more accurate.