Friday Ephemera
Charge your phone with a solar-powered bra. // The tobacco-free rechargeable cigarette. // Lovely, toxic nudibranchs. (h/t, io9.) // Enduring hardship in a darker age. // Joshua Hoffine’s nightmares. // Turkey’s evil Spider-Man. He’s evil, and cheap. // The museum of black superheroes. // Iron Man titles. // Iron Man fan. // Crotch weapons. More. // The barbecue sword. // Abandoned Russian tank base. // Robot oddments. // BSG: Guess What’s Coming to Dinner? // Pixelporn. (sfw.) // Brian Micklethwaite on an age of political landslides. // Norman Geras on the Guardian’s fondness for Hamas. // WorldWide Telescope™. // Lunch Inside the 12 Galaxies. (h/t, Candice.) // James Burke’s The Day the Universe Changed. Western civilisation and the habit of invention. (h/t, Maggie’s Farm.) // Self-balancing electric unicycle. // The a.frame.fix concept bike. Or the Strida, which folds. // Vintage broadcast microphones. (h/t, Coudal.) // Music and Life. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Astrud Gilberto.
But how does a girl wash her solar-powered bra?
Anna,
A gentle sponging, perhaps? Oh my goodness. There’s more:
“In addition to this, the bra padding can be used to store water or vodka and to drink it a straw needs to be inserted into the brasserie cup.”
http://www.greenlaunches.com/alternative-energy/solar-brasserie-from-japan.php
It’s a miracle breakthrough.
Well I’m sold.
Lovely nudibranchs!
Some more technology which might bring Iron Man a little closer to reality:
http://estb.msn.com/i/85/556BB5426C265CC5B3F597B5FABB6E.jpg
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=1501834&objectid=10510321
in French, but has videos:
http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index.html
enjoy.
Actually the site is in English as well:
http://www.jet-man.com/prod/index_en.html
Ah, thought so. Rocket Man cropped up in an ephemera post from last year…
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2007/03/friday_ephemera_4.html
Now he’s the new, improved FusionMan! What next – AtomoLord? ThunderChief? SkyPanther? Let’s hope he uses his powers for good, not evil.
** Some Food for Thought for Victoria Day, 2008
Oh hi David, folks, it’s Vitruvius here. For your potential perusal, as regards the evolution of our human condition and our evolving understanding of our structure and our experience, and in honour of this holiday weekend’s marking of the legacy of H.M. Queen Victoria, I have collected together a set of 22 presentations and talks by various researchers, philosophers, &c you may be interested in. Or not. But if perhaps potentially so, you can find them and the related meta-essay I have constructed thereupon here (which you may wish to bookmark for your leisure, as they do tend to go on a bit):
http://sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/05/food-for-thought.html
Re Iron Man > http://io9.com/391071/iron-man-is-being-created-right-now-across-america
Vitruvius,
Thanks. I’m watching the David Deutsch clip as I type.
Ah, crotch weapons – The choice of the discerning gentleman. Ladies too, it would seem.
Also, thanks for checking out Frank Chu. His assertions of being secretly filmed are most amusing, aside from his street performances.
“Let’s hope he uses his powers for good, not evil”. I concur.