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DIY Peeps

We all love peeps, Right?

Well, ok…. maybe we all just like sticking them in the microwave. But that aside, heres an awesome little tutorial on making your own peeps, done by the minds over at Evil Mad Scientist. Clicky clicky on the linky linky.

Make Your Own Peeps @ EvilMadScientist

X Prize Wants Their MPG

The X Prize foundation is probably most notable for their past sponsorship, the Ansari X Prize; an $10,000,000 prize to the private group who could first get a spacecraft into space and return safely. That contest was finally put to an end in 2004 when Burt Rutan and Paul Allen finally succeeded.

Since then, the X Price foundation has come up with another contest that should spawn the ideas and improvements we desperately need in the world today.

The proposal states it will give an unnamed amount in prize money (Probably the standard $10M) to the first group that can make an automobile that can successfully break the 100 MPG mark.

Whats the record right now, like 50ish or something? Hold on…… ok, a quick googling shows 76 MPG (Dont quote me on that though). But anyways, how awesome would it be to be able to have a car that could get you across the country on a single tank of gas? The foundation isn’t looking for a car that was just made by some MIT students in a dorm room. They want something that can actually be manufactured and sold. They have 2 classes so far; a 4-wheel / 4-passenger model, and a 2-passenger model with an unspecified amount of wheels.

With the rediculous gasoline prices around these days, this has got to be one of the most needed things in our world. Everything should go pretty well too, as long as Chevron doesnt get their hands on the winning prototypes. We would never hear about it again.

Automotive X Prize [Via Slashdot]

Magnetic Fluid Video aka Ferrofluid

If you’re like me, you’ve heard all about ferro fluid but just haven’t seen it in action. Heres a great video of it showing you its real-world properties.

For those of you that don’t know what ferro fluid is, ferro fluid is simply a fluid that is has a ferrous material embedded in it, thus making it magnetic.

Whats going on here is simple. The spiral ‘poles’ you see are connected to an electromagnet underneath and is being controlled with varying amounts of power to get the movement of the fluid.

Head on over to the link to see the project in the video.

Ferrofluid Spiral [Via Boing Boing]

Jot that crap down!

Well, more appropriately speaking… Jot on that crap.

The website address alone is enough to make your curiosity get the best of you.

PoopooPaper.com has done the unthinkably gross and taken elephant crap and manufactured it into something useful. Great. All the paper and covers are made out of re-recycled materials.

Elephants crap a lot. Enough to make 10 books every time they do. That’s a lot of bullshit. Literally.

We can make about 25 large sheets of paper from a single piece (or turd) of elephant poo poo!!! That translates into about 10 standard sized journals including the front and back covers! Neat, huh!?!?!?

The site says that the paper doesn’t smell like anything but paper. Maybe, maybe not. But there’s always one thing that’s going to sit in the back of your mind. You’re writing on poo, dude.

PoopooPaper [Via Boingboing]

The Invisible Bookshelf

This is definitely the most unique bookshelf ive ever seen…. or, err… haven’t seen.

Ha! The bottom book it attached to the wall. Its a super simple idea, but its just one of those awesome things that are gonna make visitors just stand there for a few minutes staring at it with a look of confusion on their faces.

Invisible Bookshelf [Via Make Magazine]

Sill Japanese

If you’re lazy, like me, I seriously doubt you’ll wanna be visiting Okayama anytime soon.
Well, that is unless you’re looking for a good workout.

It looks like they got a roller coaster that is entirely human powered.

Yea, those are pretty much converted bicycles up there. Ha. As cool as it is, just seems like a lot of work to have fun. But it also makes me think about what it would be like to make something similar. How hard would it be to convert a bicycle to a track mounted device? Or ya know what would be even better? One of those 2-man railroad carts. Ya know… the kind with the see-saw lever in the middle!

Ok, I guess I would go on it after all. I mean, jeez, look at the views. The closest thing we have around here even remotely similar to that is at Magic Mountain.

Sky Cycle [Via Hacked Gadgets]