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Kuka Robot Carves A Double Helix Staircase Shaped Like a Perfect DNA Strand
Amazing Things Happen When Science, Automation and Creativity Come Together. Remember last month when your wife said: “We need a new staircase, and it NEEDS to be shaped like a DNA strand!” Like a good spouse you trekked through a…
MoreDumble Overdrive: Engineering the World’s Most Expensive Guitar Amp
Alexander Dumble designed what many consider the world’s greatest guitar amplifier – if you want one, it’ll cost you $50,000 Guitar guys are always on the hunt for “tone”. It’s an ambiguous hunt for sure, and every ear hears something…
MoreEngineering the Shining Maze with Adam Savage of the Mythbusters
Watch Adam Savage re-create the hedge-maze from the Shining, one of the most iconic movie props ever made If you plan on creating something for a world-traveling art exhibit, you better bring your “A-game.” If Mythbuster, Adam Savage, may be…
MoreEngineering the World’s Largest Ant Hill
Scientists pump a giant ant colony full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure. Humans are obviously Earth’s most prolific engineers. We’ve sent missions into space, built towers into the sky and designed machines…
MoreEngineer a Great Idea for a Trip to the Moon and Earn $30M from Google Lunar XPrize
Google Lunar Xprize to Pay out $30M for the Best Plan to Get to the Moon It wasn’t that long ago that the United States, and the world for that matter, had a major fixation with the Moon, Mars and…
MoreHow NOT to Engineer an Electric Guitar
Not-so-shockingly, this doesn’t work. This guy’s rationale seems solid enough: Electricity + Guitar = Electric Guitar? Basically this guys takes a wooden pizza spatula, adds some screws to it and electrifies the whole thing… It sounds crazy enough to work,…
MoreThe Ames Room: Engineering a Human Giant or an Optical Illusion?
Can you figure out the illusion? You can clearly see this man is at least nine feet tall. His shoulders touch the ceiling of room which looks like it has a standard eight foot height, or is it a brain-bending…
MoreEngineering The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park
You want action? You got it! Action Park is World’s Most Insane Amusement Park The 70’s were a wild time, just ask Joe Namath, Elton John or John DeLorean. Everything was over-the-top, but excessiveness was measured on a sliding scale,…
MoreEngineering a Pipe Dream: Catching a 30 Ft Wave on a Dirt Bike with Robbie Maddison
Surfing is hard. It requires physical strength, balance, agility and a good dose of craziness. Humans have been surfing for a long time, Captain James Cook documented surfing in Polynesia in the 1700’s. The problem was that there was a…
MoreChainsaw Ice Racing – The Sport With So Many Ways to Rearrange Your Face!
Will the chainsaw propel the speed-skater forward or in reverse? Will he survive? When I was a kid, I was what you would call “accident prone.” I’m pretty sure I spent the better part of my eleventh year on…
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