Observe The Banana

I was curious if a tracked vehicle could ever be fast enough to compete in an extreme off road rally like the Dakar, so I googled “fastest tracked vehicle” and came up with the Ripsaw vehicle created by Howe & Howe productions.

At 80mph it beats the M1, but is probably still to slow to win a rally. Still very impressive creation with 450hp blown 427 and 14 in of suspension travel. Autoblog has a nice description and video, and the makers have a less useful site with some pictures and broken video link.

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These wall climbing robots look really cool. I could see how they could be really useful for building inspection or surveillance, although the suction fan seems quite loud in the videos so I don’t know how sneaky you could be with one. They have underwater versions too that I guess could be good at inspecting ship hulls.

See videos and read more [via Engadget]

I for one welcome our new wall climbing overlords

This looks like it could be a comfortable alternative in hot weather, I wonder how quiet it is? They also have a shirt with built in fan.

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I was struck by the nice design of this clever little folding spoon found in the lid of single serving Skyr (a wonderful Icelandic dairy product similar to yogurt). It clicks into a locked open position to make a very functional spoon, and can be re-folded.