Tech Demos From Next-Gen Star Wars Game
The folks over at LucasArts are showing off some pretty cool new tech that’s planned for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, planned for next-generation consoles. The first video shows off the...
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Strenco St-2 Steambot: Your Own Steam Powered Robot
Batteries schmatteries. Electricity shmelectricity. Who needs modern energy sources when you can have scalding hot steam to power your gadgets? This unique robot from Germany gets its juice from good...
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747 Jet Bed: Just Try and Sleep With All That Engine Noise
How’d you like to curl up for a nice nap inside the engine cowl of a 747? Well ask, and ye shall receive… The madmen over at MotoArt have taken the engine nacell from a decommissioned 747 jet engine...
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Tony Hawk Tries to Ride Skateboard With 630hp V8
If you have never driven in a vehicle that had a lot of power under foot you might not know hard it is to keep a car in a straight line if you take off fast. I am not talking the 200hp V6 your mom’s...
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Outboard Engine Drink Blender Runs on Gasoline: But Will it Blend?
This has to be one of the most unusual household appliances I’ve ever seen. What you’re looking at here is an old Johnson outboard motorboat engine, converted into a blender. Why? Because nobody had...
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Miniature Fully-functional V12 Engine: for Truly Compact Cars
Normally you can find a V12 in the back of a Lamborghini or an Aston Martin, but you’ve never seen one this small. This is the world’s smallest V12 engine and it actually works just like the full-size...
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Cummins Creates LEGO Replica of Giant Diesel Engine
If you’re not into trucks or work with large industrial equipment, you might not recognize the name Cummins. Cummins is a company that produces powerful diesel engines for all sorts of uses. The most...
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Rolls-Royce LEGO Jet Engine: Rolego-Royce?
For this epic LEGO project, a team of people from Rolls-Royce the built an incredible 675-pound replica of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine. The LEGO jet engine you see here took 152,455 bricks to...
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Baby Stroller Gets 125cc Engine, Heading for 50mph Top Speed
When you have a baby, one of the first things that you need is a good stroller. I mean, you have to let your kid have some sunlight. Sunlight is good, along with a walk at a nice leisurely pace. Well,...
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2014 Corvette LT1 V8 Engine Produces 450 HP and Gets 26 MPG
Around these parts, we like gadgets, games, LEGOs, and lots of other geeky crap stuff. But we also like our cars. General Motors put out a press release this week about the engine that will be used in...
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Breakthrough Engines Could Allow Travel from Britain to Australia in Just...
A group of British researchers at a company called Reaction Engines has announced new aircraft technology that could make air travel much faster. The researchers have created what they describe as “the...
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Motorcycle Gets Outfitted with 9-Cylinder Aircraft Engine, Still Can’t Fly
I would be hesitant to put a plane engine inside of a car, let alone mounting one on a motorcycle. That’s just crazy. I just let others do the work and enjoy their success from afar. Like German DIYer...
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This Engine Probably Has an Extra 30 Horsepower
A couple of years ago we saw a pretty sweet Scion xB that was modded as an homage to 8-bit gaming. It would’ve been more awesome if it had this engine. It’s a Honda Civic B series engine made to look...
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200hp Golf Cart Reaches 100mph
Even with their speed limiters disabled, stock golf carts are pretty slow, much like the game of golf itself. How fast can one go? Maybe 25mph if it’s all tricked out. On the other hand, this custom...
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Teen Creates Engine Powered Wheelbarrow
Wheelbarrows are a great invention. They have helped laborers haul all manner of things easily and without breaking their backs. But in today’s world they could use some extra power. The internal...
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This Full-size LEGO Car is Powered by Air
LEGO expert Raul Oaida and Steve Sammartino have built themselves the stuff of childhood dreams for many LEGO builders. I know I wanted to build a full-size car I could drive around the neighborhood...
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Nissan’s High-Tech 3-Banger Puts out 400hp in an 88 Pound Package
One of the cool things about motorsports is that you can count on some of the tech you see at the race track today making it to production cars of tomorrow. I really hope that holds true for the...
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V-8 Engine BBQ Grill: Now We’re Cooking with Gas!
Are you the type to have a spare engine sitting around your yard? I bet yours doesn’t grill meat. This one does. This beautiful V-8 engine is actually a working gas grill. Grill with eight cylinders of...
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LEGO W16 Bugatti Veyron Engine Scale Model: 1,001 Studpower
YouTuber Solde expresses his love for vehicles and LEGOs by making scale models of engines using the popular building blocks. One of his most recent creations is a scale model of the W16 engine found...
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A Chainsaw Powered by a V8 Engine
Leave it to Australians to create the ultimate manly chainsaw. Whitlands Engineering is an Australian company that makes wood splitters, firewood processors, and other stuff. Apparently, just for...
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