Powered by General Electric J-79 jet engine straight out of a F4 Phantom fighter jet, the big yellow school bus, which is the largest jet vehicle, does excitingly fast 350mph. This 42,000 hp, 10-foot-high, 35-foot-long bus blasts a 75-foot flame out its exhaust, good enough to scare the shit out of all spectators around, so if you’re at Vectren Dayton, just try and maintain adequate distance from the bus, for your safety of course.
There are sixteen mini cereal boxes to collect (they are about four inches tall), one for each panel, and they are exclusive to Celebration V! Only 400 of each will be made available.
Box illustrations are by artists Jeff Correll, Mattias Rendahl, Grant Gould, Bill Cable, Chris Reiff, Jeff Carlisle, Scott D.M. Simmons, and Chris Trevas. The boxes will be handed out at random times during each panel and will be absolutely free. Don’t miss this opportunity for unique, completely original collectibles.
Today, GE has unveiled its long-awaited scheme for electric-car charging points, complete with a design by Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject.
Outwardly, the GE Wattstation charge point resembles the award winning work by FastCompany.com contributor Gadi Amit and NewDeal Design, for Better Place. And indeed, the Better Place design and the Wattstation are both usable by any city interested in building EV infrastructure.
On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
Ever wish you had a clone of yourself to (insert reason here)? Well, for just $40, that dream can come true and you can have a 3D paper clone of yourself to do whatever you want with.
Could the Deepwater Horizon spill cause a massive eruption of methane that destroys civilization as we know it, bet-hedging question mark?
The problem with journalists is that most of us are trained as journalists and not, say, economists or physicists. To a certain extent we need to take experts’ word for it that they are correct. So, some writers examine the research of scientists at Northwestern and Texas A&M and conclude that the BP oil spill may cause the world to end, who are we to argue with them?
