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5 more ideas for Kameraflage
Shiny Shiny gadgets blog have a nice story about Kameraflage technology - the way of putting invisible for naked eye signs that are visible on the digital photos and video recordings. Find more about this amazing technology and a couple of ideas how to use it here.
I have five more ideas for Kameraflage:
Read More..>>Object 825 GTS - Balaclava
After the WW2 Soviets have decided to strengthen their submarine fleet. Hundreds of submarines (diesel and later atomic) were in need for bases on the all USSR shores. So in the mid 50’s the construction of these bases have been started in the Severodvinsk (Arctic ocean), Vladivostok (Pacific) and Balaclava (Black Sea).
Read More..>>Peng Shulin - the walking miracle
Peng Shulin survived disastrous truck crash in 1995. He lost his legs and a part of body. For twelve long years the doctors are fighting for his life. And now he can walk, with brand new hi-tech artificial legs.
Read More..>>Kalashnikov sleeps well
“I sleep well. It’s the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence,” Michael Kalashnikov, the inventor of the World’s most famous assault rifle said on the 60’s Anniversary of the AK-47 production.
The weapon that has killed millions of people all over the world remains the most […]
Moskvitch Car Museum
Somewhere deep in the rural areas of Russia probably most weird car museum is showing its rusty exhibition just under the open sky. Without walls, floor and roof hundreds of Moskvitchs, Volgas and Chaikas are gathering dust making it looks more like a dump than a museum.
Read More..>>Kuznetzov Russian Aircraft Carrier
Admiral Kuznetzov is the only one Russian aircraft carrier. Actually it’s called heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser because of its capability to carry jet fighters and helicopters along with anti-submarine missiles and “Shipwreck” anti-ship missiles. It’s intended to support nuclear missile-carrying submarines and lesser surface ships of the Russian fleet. Also it could act as a flagship.
Read More..>>Tokyo tunnels
Deep under the Shinjuku district of Tokyo hi-tech underground highway is being built. Deep under skyscrapers of the Japan’s capital intelligence and technology of the Human Being withstands the unbelievable pressure of Earth.
Read More..>>Ford Nucleon
Don’t you know that the Ford Motors company have developing automobile powered by tiny nuclear reactor in the late 50’s? This project was called Ford Nucleon. Some 3/8 scale models were shown but no working sample indeed. There is no technology to make a nuclear reactor sufficiently small and safe to use it as an […]
Read More..>>Gigantic rotary excavator
This is modern rotary excavator, which is used in mining quarries. These machines have enabled people to extract minerals and thereby change the shape of the Earth’s surface radically new way. The biggest one is about two hundred meters (600 feet) long and a hundred meters (300 feet) tall. One rotary excavator could dig a […]
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