Usually when you think of international espionage, James Bond or Austin Powers come to mind, not a floating swarm of predatory robotic cephalopods. (Yes, I know Jellyfish aren’t cephalopods – but it’s a much cooler word than “Cnidaria Medusozoa”) Back…

On May 2, 2013, construction crews finally hoisted a 22 ton, 408 ft section atop the roof of One World Trade Center reaching it’s full height of 1776 feet. One World Trade Center has been under construction since 2006 and…

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had this problem. You’re out pruning the ole’ maple tree in the back yard and there’s that one branch just out of reach. You try and try, but you just can’t get it with the pruners,…

You may remember the “Nano Quad Rotors” from one of our Crazy Cool posts, way back in 2012. The nano-bots were doing all kinds of simple tasks in a very precise way, and it was pretty rad. Well, “Moore’s Law”…

Everyone knows the story of the “Three Little Pigs,” those snarky little swine that pick on the “Big Bad Wolf,” until he gets pretty TO’d. They realize they’re in deep, so they each build a house of straw, sticks or bricks…

So, there I was… walking home late one evening from the corner store, where I was picking up milk and bread. I decided to take a short-cut down a dark and foggy alley. What could possibly go wrong? Well, dog-gonnit,…

Matchbox cars and Hot Wheels have been around since the 50’s and 60’s respectively. Children for the last 60 years have been launching them off the couch, shooting them down the stairs and occasionally blowing them up with a stray…

Normally, our “Crazy Cool” segment is reserved for fantastic feats of engineering and ingenuity. Every once in a while we like to highlight “good ideas gone wrong.” Engineering feats where hearts were in the right place, but the slide-rule was…