Showing posts with label Invention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Invention. Show all posts

11/12/2008

I wanna (Le)go to the toilet

If folding and cutting toilet paper is a difficult task, maybe you'll be interested in this Lego creation:



I also like the robot to flush the toilet.

4/05/2008

People often have silly ideas…

… such as equipping a wheelchair with a propane-propelled engine:



Or a Honda four-stroke 165cc engine:



I'd like to get one of these for my grandma, when we go to the seaside… Probably everyone out there would be scared to death… Or I could use it to go to the faculty, but I admit it would be upsetting if it rains…


A little bonus skit from Little Britain:


"What is it?"
"It's the new chair you wanted!"
"Yeah I know."
"I had to go all the way down to Cranmouth for it; it's a right kerfuffle."

2/06/2008

Solving a Rubik's cube

I already find it difficult to solve a Rubik's cube by hand, but developing a programme so that a Lego Minstorm robot solves it is even more difficult. But some genius managed to do that:



Just as the Lego Minstorm gumball sorter, this is totally useless but particularily well done.

Wait, that was just a 3x3x3 cube. Let's now watch how it's possible to solve a 20x20x20 cube:



(I love the comment at the end.)

And there's an even more crazy guy who handled the solving of a 100x100x100 cube:



"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!!!"
— Homer Simpson