Friday 8 January 2016

GoPro Hero3 Inside a washing machine.


Tossed the Hero 3 inside a washer at work, it was only a demo cycle that lasted a few minutes and peaked out at 1200 rpm.

Watch U.S. Marshals Raid Chinese Hoverboard Booth at CES


Jan. 7 -- In an unusual moment at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, two U.S. federal marshals showed up at a Chinese company's booth and carried away their one-wheeled skateboard that was on display. The raid on the show floor was the result of a weeks long effort by Future Motion, a Silicon Valley startup that said it invented and patented a self-balancing electric skateboard that looks strikingly similar to the ones the marshals confiscated. Bloomberg Business's Josh Brustein was there and tells us what happened.

Father secretly video bombing his daughters dancing “Watch Me (Whip Nae/Nae)”


Mike Jones secretly video bombing his daughters dancing to the popular rap song “Watch Me (Whip Nae/Nae)” has moved his dance skills and new-found fame across the Internet.

Thursday 7 January 2016

Jack Sock v Leighton Hewitt. Sportsmanship at its absolute best


Take note kids. Winning is important, but there is more to being a legend than win / loss records.

Drone footage from Chernobyl


Spectacular new footage shot from a drone flying over the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant released by the EBRD today shows the latest advances in securing the site of the 1986 accident.

The video focuses on the arch that will shelter the damaged reactor 4 upon completion in late 2017.

It will prevent the release of contaminated material from the present shelter and protect the structure from external impacts such as extreme weather.

The New Safe Confinement is the largest structure ever been assembled in the vicinity of a heavily contaminated site and is 110 metres high, 165 metres wide and 260 metres wide.

It is being constructed by the international consortium Novarka, led by the French companies Vinci Construction and Bouygues Travaux Publics. Novarka also commissioned the drone video.

The construction works on site started in late in 2010 and recently passed another milestone when the two halves of the giant arch were joined. Once fitted with state-of-the-art equipment for deconstruction the structure will be slid over the damaged reactor, making it the largest moveable, land-based structure ever built.

Man has bad day at Fashion Valley Mall


This is a clip from footage taken by CBS, I do not own any of it.

Specsavers Fawlty Car, featuring John Cleese #shouldve


Basil Fawlty is back. 35 years after he last prowled the Reception area of Fawlty Towers, John Cleese’s legendary comedy creation has returned to our screens for Specsavers.

In Fawlty Car, it’s clear the present-day Basil hasn’t lost his notorious ability to self-destruct spectacularly when events conspire against him. Throw in a should’ve gone to Specsavers twist (Fawlty eyesight?) and you have an irresistible comedy cocktail leading to inevitably calamitous results.