Skateboarding
Submitted by Dave Blair on Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:14James Kelly, pro skateboarder, showing off on his local roads.
Crash at about 2:20.
10 billion websites and nothing on?
James Kelly, pro skateboarder, showing off on his local roads.
Crash at about 2:20.
Robert Popper called into a religious TV show.
Visited the £10m FloWave wave research facility. This is a video of them showing off with the pool.
You can see the computer controller paddles around the circumference of the pool which are used to produce any types of wave motion required for testing.
Apparently a 58 year old woman was in a rush somewhere and didn't stop for the opening bridge.
Academy Award-nominated animator/filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt answers the question of what it would look like if THE SIMPSONS went far, far into the future!
Tommorrow (8th August) marks the return of the South Queensferry Burryman. Covered entirely in prickly burrs from the burdock plant a man walks about for 12 hours. No-one really know the reason why.
John Nicol, the previous burryman said: "It's verging on some sort of bizarre psychedelic experience, by the end of it you don't know what's going on."
Thingful.net is a search engine for data logging devices which are connected to the internet (sometimes these devices are collectively called the 'internet of things').
Interesting distribution of gamma radiation detectors in Europe:
I'm building a portable, wifi and internet enabled data logger with various sensors. Click below to see the test page.
An insight into the 2014 Highland Trail Race - UK's toughest bikepacking race along an uncompromising 550 mile route through the Highlands of Scotland.
Started as a practice run for races such as Ride the Divide, the Highland Trail has become a established challenge of it's own. It may not be as long, but the terrain and weather more than make up for it.
Maybe next year..if not the race..then maybe the route.
Bruce Campbell is an engineer who lives in a Boeing 727 aircraft.
"Burt's Buzz" is a quirky film about the co-founder and face of Burt's Bees, who reluctantly struggles with fame when all he wants is to just say "buzz off."
"A good day...is when no-one shows up....and you don't have to go anywhere"
A journalist gets to climb up inside the Christ the Redeemer statue after noticing it was being repaired. The resulting video is vertigo inducing.
This looks nice....well designed....if it all works:
Bluetooth controlled from you phone, allowing you to:
-Lock/unlock using your phone (keypad on lock for backup).
-Alerts you to potential theft attempts by hooking it up to a local wifi point.
-Charges from solar panels (apparently it uses very little power)
-Detects accidents and calls for help through your phone if you don't respond to the message it'll push to your phone.