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Multi-layered Laser-cut Wood Artworks by Martin Tomsky

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Freelance illustrator and graphic artist Martin Tomsky is gifted in the art of laser cutting wood. He creates everything from tiny pendants and brooches of small animals to these intricately layered sculptural works depicting entire illustrated scenes.

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Shark Cam Surprise! Great Whites Attack in Dramatic Footage

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If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to be attacked by great white sharks, here’s your chance to find out. A team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) captured a lot more than they bargained for when they took their specially-equipped REMUS Shark Cam underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico. Six cameras on the robot record the tense scene as the sharks come sidling in.

“In the clear waters near Guadalupe Island, white sharks lurk in the depths and look for the back-lit silhouette of prey at 100 meters depth,” says Edgar Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a marine biologist who worked with the WHOI team to study shark behavior. “When they spot a target, they swim up quickly and attack the hind fins or flippers in order to disable it before moving in for the kill.”

“We discovered back in 2008 that the sharks were killing seals in deep waters, but we did not know the exact depth until November 2013 – thanks to the REMUS SharkCam.” The footage was featured on the TV show ‘Jaws Strikes Back’ as part of Shark Week 2014 on the Discovery Channel.

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MOTOPED SURVIVAL BIKE

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Remember the popular post we did on the Motoped conversion kit? Now the same guys behind the petrolhead DIY project have presented their new kit, the Motopeds Survival Bike : Black Ops Edition. The apocalypse ready ride is built with the same kit as the standard Motoped, but comes with a bunch of action ready accessories to choose from, including a crossbow, two gas packs, a survival shovel, a harpoon, a blade a saw, carabiners, an axe, climbing rope, flashlight, and a lot more.

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This is a Cut and Polished Chinga Meteorite

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Seen here is a 773 gram polished Chinga meteorite. The quarter-cut specimen was found in Turvinskaya, Russia and has been cut and polished on two sides. The rest of the meteorite retains its natural light brown crust, creating a dramatic contrast. This particular specimen, which was offered by Arizona Skies Meteorites has been sold, but more of this meteorite can be found online.
The Chinga meteorite is an iron meteorite and its total chemical composition is: 82.8% iron, 16.6% nickel, and the rest mostly cobalt and phosphorus. Fragments of the meteorite were found in 1913 by gold diggers in Tuva near the Chinge River after which it is named.

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Selfie Toaster

8:51 PM bread, breakfast, geek, innovation, selfie, toast, toaster, wow No comments

Innovative toaster designed by Galen Dively burns images and portraits into the side of the bread.
For only $75, you can upload any photo to the Vermont Novelty website and “Selfie Toaster” will be manufactured and delivered to your door.
Now you can finally eat toast with printed face for breakfast.

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The Dissected Cake

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'The Dissected Cake' made by artist Annabel de Vetten of Conjurer’s Kitchen. Cool!
"I often get asked what's inside the decorated cakes, what they taste like. So I thought I would create a cake to answer that question. Of course only the pretty cakes look like this on the inside, all the creepy and unusual cakes are yummy sponge cakes in many different flavours! ;-)
OK, so I'm kidding. Everything is tasty."

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Colorless Coca-Cola Can

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Eco-friendly can designed by Ryan Harc for Coca-Cola will reduce the cost of recycling and eliminate pollution caused by the coloring process.
Colorless Coca-Cola Can features iconic logo pressed into the can itself.

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Alligator & Great White Shark Carved From Watermelons

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These are the alligator (or is it a crocodile?) and great white shark watermelon carvings created by watermelon carving pro Clive Cooper. They look real, don't they? "No." Well they look pretty real for being carved out of pumpkins. "Those are watermelons.

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These Were Handmade in the 1800s by Layering Sand. No Glue was Used

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Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) was an artist from Dubuque, Iowa but spent most of his life in nearby McGregor. At the age of five Clemens was stricken with encephalitis that left him completely deaf and nearly mute.
At age 13 Clemens began experimenting with sand art, collecting multicolored sands from Iowa’s Pictured Rocks region. He fashioned special tools made from pieces of hickory and fish hooks that he used to arrange the sand in intricate designs. Clemens did not use glue in his artwork, relying on the pressure of the tightly packed surrounding grains to keep his artworks intact. Once an artwork was complete, Clemens would back the jar tightly and seal it.
Clemens had a remarkable ability to break down images and render it grain by grain with each piece of sand akin to a pixel of a digital image. He is thought to have produced hundreds of bottles during his lifetime but few survive today.