Two guys, a couple of cellos, a sweet piano, some awesome audio-tech and an obvious passion for music = this awesome video:
At about 1:30 I nearly jumped out of my seat. I LOVE when musicians find sounds from abnormal locations.
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The requirements to win the $250,000 prize:
Hover for 1-minute
Reach a height of 3-meters (10 feet)
Remain in a 10-meter box from lift off
The pilot for the test flight will be University of Maryland grad student, Judy Wexler. With a female pilot, if the team successfully flies their helicopter, they will also receive the world record for the first human-powered helicopter piloted by a female!
The aircraft itself is HUGE – nearly 1/3 the size of a football field and yet engineered to weight about 100-pounds. The video quotes a finish-weight of nearly 140lbs, but they have managed to decrease it to around 100!
I will be following this story to see how their maiden voyage turns out. The first full flight attempt will be TOMORROW, May 11th, and they are planning to live-stream the event here starting at 9AM EDT.
Here is a well-produced video explaining the project and their goal in wining the Sikorsky Prize:
What is mind blowing about this whole thing is that the team of engineers have ONLY been working on this project for 2-years. More information on the project, the team, and the details of the initial flight can be found here.
Wow. The Cube Project is an initiative of Dr Mike Page at the University of Hertfordshire who set out to build a compact home, no bigger than 3x3x3 meters (about 10x10x10 feet) on the inside, in which one person could live a comfortable, modern existence with a minimum impact on the environment.
I love stuff like this – the idea of building a fully-functional (and noted, quite small) home with the smallest of footprint (both size and eco-wise) is fascinating to me. I think it’s because I loved the idea of building my own tree house that I could one day live in.
Check out the tour video of The Cube Project:
More information about the project from their official website.
Talk about creative… If I were a train-buff something like this would probably instantly go on my to-do list. Maybe my son Ezra will continue to love trains and this could be something I build with him one day!
Looks like this guy used an IKEA LIATORP Coffee table ($279 retail) and an N-Scale train set (found one on Amazon for about $50)
Can you imagine how great of a conversation-piece this would be in your living room, rec-room, or even church-office?! I love it.
More information about “Coffeetableville” here.
At 4:30PM this afternoon (April 25, 2011), my friends at The Techology Show are scheduled to interview author and pastor Todd Burpo about his book “Heaven Is For Real”. I’m doing everything in my power to be settled in behind my laptop for this LIVE interview that is available for FREE at http://thetechologyshow.com/live
I read the book a few months ago and posted my brief review here.
Here are some of the details of the podcast:
Interview with Todd Burpo, author of New York Times Bestseller Heaven is for Real at 4:15pm EST at www.thetechologyshow.com
A Kindle Edition of the book will be given away to an individual who leaves a question or comment for Rev. Burpo by calling 304-986-5649.
Multiple copies of the book will be given away during the show to listeners in the chatroom.
If you’re going to be tuning in, let me know in the comments! If you’re not, but you have a question that you’d like for ME to ask (if I have the opportunity via the chat room) go ahead and leave that in the comments and I’ll do my best!