A wristwatch with NFC wireless comms, a self-winding mechanism for power, and a port for a microSD card ( Read more... )

Would it be awesome or not to name a Japanese company Mekaashigani, if it made giant multistorey semi-mobile robot gantry cranes which had a boatload of robot arms hanging from its upper levels and used these to build entire houses beneath itself?

Mecha + Takaashigani = ???

Looking at the local mortgage interest rates - 9.5% and climbing - and looking at Japanese mortgage interest rates - around 2.17% - it occurred to me that there might be some advantage in refinancing via the Land of the Rising Sun ( Read more... )

For the history buffs - 5 millennia of religious expansion in 90 seconds.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Also: Wouldn't it be cool to name the first lunar currency LUnar CREdits?

You know what would be a cool invention? A Time Fridge ( Read more... )

You know work is boring when you're mentally trying to work out how to use shaping explosives, rocket engines and freezer grids to push a multi-square-mile iceberg up to hydroplaning speeds ( Read more... )

Man, I tell you. Dump four years of art into one LJ post and 90% of the commentary is on one pic. Oh, internets.

Next time, I'm spacing them out. An unending stream of art, one piece after the next - about, uh, once every six months. Maybe.

BY MID-2008 I MIGHT HAVE NINE PIECES OF ART. TREMBLE!

Anyway...I was thinking about the concept of ( Read more... )

With China enforcing USB charging ports on all mobile phones, and me in a time-to-upgrade-all-the-broken-crap-in-my-life mood, I was struck by the thought of going further with USB and phones ( Read more... )

- the reason so few aliens ever visited Earth was that navigating the natural sub-etheric solar flux in the Solar System was the translight equivalent of rugged offroad driving, and they were waiting for us to build some civilised space lanes?

Plus, of course: asteroid belts? Sooo last galactic rotation.

I wonder if Mexico would be interested in a transoceanic channel able to pass two Emma Mærsks side by side ( Read more... )