What’s the fastest way to give your 2005 Ford F-150 STX 2,700 extra horses?
Easy: Mount a $10,000 Motorlet M-701 turbojet engine in the bed and hold on!
The engine, which makes 2,700 HP and 1962 pounds of thrust at 15,500 rpm, weighs just 728 pounds and runs on kerosene. (Though to be fair, it would have to be going 516 mph to make all that power.)
Unaided, the Ford’s 231 HP V8 will get to 60 mph n 14.5 seconds, and the quarter passes by at just 73 mph. (Topping out at 85 mph.)
With the jet providing extra power in ‘hybrid’ mode however, 60 mph happens 6 seconds sooner, and the quarter mile speed jumps a full 30 mph. Plus, when you’re up to speed, you can actually GAIN extra speed by shifting into neutral and letting the jet do all the work.
It might not be the greenest vehicle around, but it sure is the most fun you can have in a hybrid!
Light graffiti is a fun photography style where you set your camera up to take a long exposure at night, and then use a handheld light sources to ‘draw’ in the frame.
The easiest way to create light graffiti is with an LED pen, since they can be made in all sorts of different colors, and the small, very focused light will give you detailed lines without illuminating the rest of the image.
To make your very own set of LED Light Drawing Pens, check out Instructables, where they’ve posted a guide that will turn some plastic tubing, an LED, and rudimentary wiring into a LED pen in no time.
Grand Opening is currently trying to reinvent their space as a wedding chapel, and is using Kickstarter to raise funds for the cause.
Since big church weddings are ‘out’ this year, Wedding Chapel hopes to be a recession-proof, ultra cool solution for loved ones, friends and family.
“Wedding Chapel” will be New York City’s most fun and affordable wedding spot, offering couples the chance to have long lasting memories without a church or city hall.
The way Kickstarter works is that projects can ask for money, and then people can donate in exchange for certain rewards. In this case, any donor of any amount will have his or her name displayed on the wall of the chapel, and pledges of $100 or more can reserve Wedding Chapel for an hour or more for their own ceremony.
Sound like something that you’d want to take part in? Then hurry on over to Wedding Chapel on Kickstarter and put your pledge in!
Deceptively simple games are usually the most fun, and Use Boxmen definitely falls into that category.
In the game, you are put in charge of a boxman who can generate other boxmen that will copy what he does. The goal is to save the box in each level, but as this is a puzzle game, even simple tasks are often much harder than they first appear.
Give it a shot and see how you do, but if you get stuck, there’s always the cheater’s way out of using a walkthrough:
Joobili is an interesting idea in travel: You tell them when you want to go, and they’ll tell you where.
The service keeps an active database of unique and fun events that are going on around the world, and then matches the dates you have available to the things you can go do/see. From there, you’re [...]
Nixon’s new Time Teller P watches are meant to be a fun, easy and inexpensive way to add some style to any wardrobe.
They’re made of polyurethane and polycarbonate with a Japanese quartz movement, and come in a variety of colors that cover just about every part of the spectrum.
Price?
Just $55
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