725.35 metres. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That’s how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS. When JJ Abrams said that he wanted to put some Star Wars into Star Trek, apparently it also applied to the scale [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-big-is-the-new-enterprise-compared-to-the-old-one/
How’s this for a brilliant marketing campaign? To help sell the notion that there’s no better way to spend an evening than with a pizza and a movie, Dominos in Brazil created custom DVDs with a heat-reactive flavoured varnish that actually smelled like pizza once they were played. The DVDs, which included such popular titles [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/dominos-makes-awesome-dvds-that-smell-like-pizza-when-theyre-played/
Last week, when Smith + Gill Architects unveiled its design for Imperial Tower, which will become Mumbai’s tallest building (by a lot!), their description of the project confounded many critics. “The building,” the architects explained, “is designed to confuse the wind.” Huh? Curious to know exactly what that meant, I got in touch with the [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/how-this-116-storey-skyscraper-will-confuse-the-wind/
Pig farming is tough, foul-smelling, and dirty work. Turns out, that’s the good part of it. See, since 2009 the American pig farming industry has been struck with an explosive pork poop problem—in that the decomposing porcine waste will go boom under the right conditions. Since the phenomenon was first described four years ago, a [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/american-farms-cant-seem-to-keep-their-pig-shit-from-exploding/
The simple form and function of a Zippo lighter has made it an incredibly iconic design. But it could soon be supplanted by Alessi if the Italian houseware manufacturer prices its new Sushi lighter to compete with the Zippo. That, or convince a Hollywood producer to have an action hero prominently use it in an [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/the-most-stunning-way-to-start-a-fire-since-lightning/
How does the Army train soldiers for guerrilla combat in cities and villages they’ve never visited? By building replicas of those villages, training a force of fake “insurgents,” and hiring actors to populate the scenes. Welcome to Fort Irwin, a 1,000-square mile Army Base where many soldiers train before deploying overseas. As part of their [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/a-tour-through-the-us-armys-largest-simulated-battlefield/
Art installation? Trick photography? Nope, just a little restoration project going on at Utah’s Provo Temple, which was badly damaged in a fire in 2010. Thankfully, the Church of the Latter Day Saints is salvaging the 112-year-old building with a little architectural levitation. Engineers gutted the ruined interior, and lifted the structure onto scaffolding about [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/why-is-this-112-year-old-church-floating-in-the-air/
What would happen if 200 arrows somehow magically hit the same bullseye? Pfeilschaften, an installation by the Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski and her German counterpart, Bodo Korsig, visualises just that. Pfeilschaften, which loosely translates to “Arrow Machinations,” is currently on display at TUFA, a gallery in the ancient German town of Trier. Smigla-Bobinski and Korsig [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/this-sculpture-would-result-from-200-arrows-hitting-one-target/
Valentin Boanta has a lot of free time on his hands—five years worth, to be exact. That’s because Boanta is currently serving a prison sentence for, according to Reuters, “supplying gadgets to an organised crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers.” So with all that time to think about what he’s done, the apparently penitent [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/an-imprisoned-hacker-invented-an-atm-attachment-that-stops-skimmers/
If you want a Curiosity rover of your own but don’t quite have NASA’s budget, you can save yourself £2,499,999,850 by going with designer Arnold Patrick Martin’s beautiful wooden model. It doesn’t move, the cameras don’t work, and it probably won’t survive a trip to Mars, but it’s also only £100. And believe it or [...]
from Gizmodo UK http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/explore-the-dark-side-of-your-desk-with-this-wooden-curiosity-model/
