Category: Design

  • Honey I Blew Up The Plastic Green Army Man

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    A grown up version of what you likely used to play with: 18″ tall in total!  They tried to keep it as close as possible to the orignal small version, with mold lines, ejection circles from the pins, and all. $95 over at GreatBigStuff.

  • Syrian Rebels DIY A Tank And Live By The Motto Function Over Form

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    Bonus points for their use of a Playstation controller: You know one of their kids is pissed he can’t get his buddy on multi-player COD with him anymore. I highly doubt their “armor” is even hard enough to stop rifle rounds.  That would be hilarious if it was just mild steel.  They will find that out rather…

  • Hardy Blechman Of Maharishi Talks DPM

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    “Camouflage” for those that don’t already know. For the military, camouflage became important when long-range weaponry was developed. Before that, there was no need for it, but in the South African Boer wars, at the end of the 19th century, English soldiers wearing red suddenly got shot at more and more. Read the full feature…

  • Word Is Bond

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    Camouflage notebooks, for your best ideas: If you’re the creative type and you’re not already carrying around a notebook for your ideas, you definitely should start. I currently am all about Moleskine brand notebooks, but I might give these ones a try.  Moleskine doesn’t make any of their notebooks in camouflage. 😛 At $10 for…

  • Harry Potter Reporting For Duty Sir

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    CNN takes a look at invisible camouflage technology: You can read more information on Quantum Stealth camouflage technology over at HyperSteath. Hard to believe a company with such a terrible logo and website came up with such an awesome sounding product.  The public hasn’t actually seen real pictures of the camouflage yet (that picture to…

  • A Low Cost Solution To Land Mine Clearance

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    An amazing tumbleweed-inspired product that will no doubt save lives: He starts talking about the product at 1:45. Wow… even sustainable components such as bamboo are used in his design and those rubber shocks look like basic toilet plungers. A TED talk by the designer: The designer says it costs around €40 ($52 USD) to create a…