This Lego jet engine works Well, it has moving parts – but you wouldn’t want to stick it on a passenger jet Lego has outdone itself with its display at theFarnborough Airshow 2012– it’s created a half-size model of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine out of Lego bricks, complete with moving parts. The model, which uses a whopping 152,000 standard Lego bricks, weighs in at 307kg and is 2 metres long....
This pipe-climbing snake robot is adorable This tiny little fellow could one day be used for rescuing people from piles of debris. Skynet, keep your hands off We’re no strangers to robotic snakes here at Stuff. Remember this terrifying chap that cancarve through water with deadly calm? Luckily snake robots don’t have to be so terrifying. Take the one developed by CMU Biorobotics for example. It’s tiny, can roll its way up pipes, and could one day be used to finding people trapped under debris....
Tivoli Audio unveils giant PAL XL radio The only question now is – what else should we fill our lounge with to make our mates think they’re 10cm tall? Putting the 13cmHTC Titanwell and truly to shame is this giant, 152cm tall Tivoli Audio PAL XL radio – with crazy, oversized dials that look like they’d be more at home controlling the gunge tank in some 90s kids game show. Based on Tivoli’slovely, portable PAL radio, this extra large version is apparently geared towards loft conversions, gardens – and, well, people like us who love unnecessarily big gadgets....
Tommy Walsh explains how to turn your shed into a games den The one-man building machine has dusted off his overalls and come in to chat with Stuff about DIY After spending the long weekend trying to put up a shelf, we’ve realised DIY isn’t as easy as we thought. So we met up with Tommy Walsh, handyman extraordinaire, to get some tips on turning our shed into the ultimate games-den-come-man-cave....
TomTom unveils new Nike+ SportWatch models New colours and the NikeFuel measure of fitness breath a second wind into Nike+ SportWatches TomTom and Nike have just unveiled new Nike+ SportWatches that come in four colours, include a cheaper entry-level version, and pack the NikeFuel fitness measure. And with its SportWatch predecessor at number three inStuff’s Cool List 2011, we’re eager for more. You might recognise NikeFuel from theNike+ FuelBandthat converts mileage into a universal unit of measurement for various sports....
Toshiba AT300 tablet joins the Tegra 3 club Tosh’s new slate comes crammed with ports and is finished off with a nice tasty dollop of Ice Cream Sandwich Toshiba has revealed its latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the AT300 – and it’s packed the quad-core power of Nvidia’s Tegra 3 processor and 1GB RAM into the slate’s 8.95mm thin innards. The AT300 sports a 1280×800 10.1in Gorilla Glass-clad screen wrapped in an aluminium shell....
Transforming solar lamp is your flexible friend It may look like something from Tron but this concept lamp is anything but retro Solar lamps usually sit in a row along a garden path providing very little actual light. This particular sun-powered concept, however, should prove to be a ray of sunshine in comparison. Designed by Lenka Czereova, this Tron-looking lamp can be tweaked to your taste – if you get bored of your lamp you can use the hinges to change its appearance from a table lamp to a floor variant....
