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Hey! I'm from Argentina and I never saw these mini cars. They are beautiful.
By the way, of the contemporary "autitos", the one I like most is this: http://bit.ly/c63Wlh
I took this photo on 2008, in La Plata, the city where I live.
Greetings!
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I see several cars that doesn't fit in the micro category at all. Mini is mini, but not a micro, and with its more than 3,5 m (11,5ft) length, NSU Prinz is small at best, to name a few.
Tempo is so rare that Indian roads are full of it, it was manufactured under license by Bajaj until 2000:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99366248@N00/2186973410/lightbox/
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Microbo 124 is actually italian, noy greek, there's even MILANO written on top left...
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found this http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php/Issi
Autoscooter Microbo 125
was produced by ISSI italy (Istituto Scientifico Sperimentale Industriale)and it was a prototype.
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Very nice article, although I have to correct you on one thing, the NSU Prinz (and all NSU's for that matter) is from Germany. The company was founded in 1873 and produced knitting machines, bicycles and eventually cars. Some were quite advanced, the Wankel Spider you showed in the article was the first car to have a Wankel engine. In 1969 it was aquired by the Volkswagen Group to merge it with Auto Union and both companies (NSU and Auto Union) became Audi.
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How could you list tiny cars without including this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfSS0ZXYdo
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Thanks for this nice article. But the Škoda Spartak (on the picture with airplane) is a normal-size car. Typical micro car from Czechoslovakia is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velorex
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We linked to it in the other part of this series. There are two more parts. Cheers!
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First of the two cars described as "Goggomobile" is actually Mikrus, manufactured in Poland between 1957 and 1960. For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikrus_MR-300
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The green bubble car (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/TEjzoPxe7vI/AAAAAAABUb0/fU_MItQo4hY/s720/erhygtrdegtrrgt.jpg ) looks like some novelty product. If you look close you see that it resembles a Volkswagen Transporter T2 bay window van.
Compare with this.
http://www.moto24.tv/jamnik/img/galeria/3198/vw_transporter_t2_1.jpg
Look at the details as the lights, wheelhubs and air intake under the window.
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I have been a nut for big V8 iron for years but these are great cars. The simplicity yet complex designs are intriguing.
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There were lots of small cars in Argentina in the ´60s. Even there was an amphibious one, the so called "autoneta" Ipam Leeds, made at the city of La Plata, and an electric prototype named Isabelita. Others were imported or licensed, like the NSU made by Autoar, or the Fuldamobil, known as Bambi, amongst many others (Joseso, Isetta, Heinkel, Messerschmitt).
De Carlo´s larger models were based on the BMW.
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The German Goggomobile (Hans Glas)were made under license in Argentina, and known as the Isard.
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These are so cool! They even make the Smartcar look big, which I tend to cruise around in given half the chance!
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All these cars are awesome.. and cute. Lol.
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For those interested, the microcar from the Soviet film is the "Invalidka", a russian car for the disabled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalidka
And the film is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Y_and_Other_Shurik%27s_Adventures
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The Czechoslovakian Velorex was also designed for the disabled, although it barely fits even in the microcar category with its wooden frame covered with oilcloth.
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The green car which another poster mentioned is a custom built car for an advert. The car was made to look like a "BirdsEye Garden Pea."
You can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxg1pYIT64M
The explanation being that the "Pea" car is driving around the country but keeps falling apart and it reaches its destination as a mere body shell. A new frozen pea car is revealed from a Birds Eye refrigerated vehicle. The explanation is that fresh vegetables loose vitamins from the moment their picked, Birds Eye vegetables don’t because they are frozen to lock in their goodness.
More info on it here:
http://www.tomgarner.co.uk/2005/10/update-more-on-birdseye-pea-car.html
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there are some cars on display at Abudhabi car museum you can check the site www.enam.ae
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I found some interesting cars on this site: www.microcarbroker.com
Regards
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seriously, almost all of these cars are the best cars ever. we should have more of them on the roads. i don't know how someone couldn't like them.
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You seem to have forgotten the Honda micro cars, the N360 and N600.
With 2-cyl motorcycle engines the 600 wasn't too bad but the 360 was SLOW.
Although the S-600 and S-800 sports cars aren't micro, they are tiny and have remarkable engines worthy of note.
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Thank you Ken, great info, will include in next part.
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Becherovka is not an absinthe. It's no even green. It only has a green bottle.
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Exactly, it's just wodka with herb flavor, similar to jagermeister
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The first two mead bottles (Hromčíkova hořká) is actually Czech or Slovak, not Polish. The third one, however is Polish all right (not very high quality, though...).
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I seem to remember reading that the ancient Inca alchohol drinks made from maize were first "chewed" by Incan women to start the fermentation process - is this true?
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When it comes to strong beverages, you seem to have left out Stroh rum ( http://www.stroh.co.uk/ ) that has 80% alc. It's personally one of my favorite liquors.
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Aha!, the alcohol works as rat bait. I don't want to drink vodka with whole animals submerged.
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No way dude thats jsut too cool
www.privacy-tools.be.tc
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Hey - fascinating page! There's one other notable drink in the 'strange floating animal' category that I thought I would mention actually. The Slovenian Salamander Brandy – and yes, that's exactly what it sounds like. The only thing is that the salamander is actively poisonous, giving the drink a decidedly strong and possibly hallucinatory effect. It’s also supposed to have a very sexual effect - “getting in touch with your deeper sexual feelings”. It’s not legal in Slovenia and is very clandestine – actually finding it is very hard and requires a lot of networking. You cant just ask people. I’ve never tried it myself – I only discovered it existed after my year there was over. Here’s the link: http://www.grailtrail.ndo.co.uk/Grails/brandy.html
Slovenia is also one of the homes of the famous Viljamovka with an entire pear miraculously sealed inside the bottle (actually grown inside it of course!).
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The snake beer is really gross and the little rodent one too. But very interesting.
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http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6671/sn851628a.jpg
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There's a 96% Polish vodka out there called Spirytus I had in Japan a few years back. Nasty stuff. I used it to blow fireballs out of my mouth to start bonfires and also to make turbo screwdrivers. Here's a link:
http://www.emit.kr/attach/1/1141195309.jpg
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Yup, the first mead is Czech, not Polish. As for chili vodka, there's the Ukrainian Nemiroff (see http://www.e-waspol.pl/foto/1129/maxi/91.jpeg ) which is a traditional "nastoyka" (but there's more than one!). Also, one weird liquor missing is the Danziger Goldwasser - a vodka containing thin petals of gold that one actually drinks ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Danziger_goldwasser_original_der_lachs.jpg )
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The Swiss make "Gold Schnee", which is a cinnamon flavoured schnapps with gold leaf.
Only 20% though, I just checked my only bottle ;)
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I tried inferno vodka once, it was probably the most vile thing I've ever tasted.
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How do you come up with these great posts?
I tried to send you a link through tweeter but could not get through.
http://www.designsdelight.com/uncategorized/fat-lava-fat-lava-vases/
tell me do you do any consultancy?
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96% Polish drink called Spirytus is not a vodka. It's pure alcohol. It doesn't go to 100% purity. It always has 4% of water. No wonder it was nasty. No one in his right mind would drink pure alcohol as he would drink vodka.
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there are strong beverages made from mead distilate, at least up to 75% alc. http://www.midus.lt/en.php?p=Product&pid=57
calling kumis alcohol mixed with horse milk is a bit of insult, there's no mixing with alcohol, it gets there naturally, as in bear for example.
great article though, as allways :)
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I have a couple of bottles of spyritus and they're actually %76.6 acl. That snake wine is super cool, I wish I had a bottle of that (to display, not drink), though I must comment that the mouse wine is just plain sad and very unappealing.
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Neat, the "liquor/guns" sign is for real! I believe it is between San Antonio and Uvalde, Texas. They really do sell those two items in the same edifice (ammo too, of course), but if memory serves correct there is an interior door or something between the two halves. Go Texas, lol!
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Speaking of strange liqour... Ok so it's beer, but it is 55% alcohol. And poured out of dead (taxidermied) animals. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7904698/Beer-to-be-sold-in-dead-animals.html
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South African Mampoer and Witblits, up to 80% alcohol according to this article, although I have heard of some reaching into the 90's:
http://food.iafrica.com/happy_hour/988569.htm
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Hi,
I bought some Snake wine on http://www.asiansnakewine.com/ but they said that they don't want to discount even if I buy 10 bottles, so do you know where i could get better price ? Thank you very much.
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Сool,worth a try.
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I must say that vodka with chilies is actually VERY good. It may looks really scary but it's tasty. I'm actually making it by myself - vodka with chilies and honey. This is the best medicine against cold and flu. Who needs to take pills when you have 100% natural cure?
But anyway guys, drink responsibly... :)
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Great post, as usual. But there is no such thing as a non-venomous spider (unless they are de-venomed which I doubt.) Maybe you meant non-poisonous to humans?
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Stroh 80 (80%) is a famous Austrian rum, famous not only for its strength but also for the tasty rum-raisin ice cream.
You should take care drinking strong alcohol strait up because your lungs could get damaged of fumes or liquid.
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@Brandon, Spirytus is not a vodka and it is not meant to be drunk by people in this form. No wonder u were able to blow fire XD
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Yeah but if you really want to be wasted fast and hard the Spirytus is what you need ;d
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Exist a (mostly illegal) drink that contain the most highest level of alcohol. It is used by people that live or work in high altitude places (such a mountain, for example a miner) because the alcohol lose their degreed at some altitude. Though, this drink is mortal at sea level.
Also exist Green Bird (Pajaro Verde), a drink composed by Turpentine and Varnish. If it is incorrectly prepared then it can be mortal.
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This article is INACCURATE. BABY MICE WINE is NOT at all SOLD in Korea. Everyone in the Korea would be grossed out by that. Throughout 23 years that I been in Korea, I've never set my sight upon a such kind of drink nor heard about them. Besides, the label on the bottle is in Chinese, not in Korean. This would be very unsual in Korea. Please verify before you write.
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Excellent.
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I love the "Dewey Death" book. I want it now.
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They did not mention The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco, a really deadly and destructive book.
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This is amazing! I was just turned to your blog today, but I can assure you, I'll be back for more! ;)
...That is of course...if my next book is not my last!
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What about that real famous one that contains murders, torture, brainwashing, betrayal, and all sorts of bad things, plus a few supernatural themes thrown in for good measure. It's been around for a while now. It's name is "the book', probably known more commonly as 'the bible'.
It's OK people, like all the others it's a work of fiction...
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I don't know why people are bothering to even LOOK at this article. Complete and utter tosh! Poorly researched and a large hint of plagerism if you ask me and anyone can nip into a book seller and take photos of old books on his iphone and pretend their his. Books hurting people! What does he mean? They fell on his head? Or what? Whats the point of writing stuff like this anyway, all it does is annoy people. I wish he'd stayed at home and READ his books instead of WRITING about them. The pictures on the dust jackets are really badly drawn as well.
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I think that this was a lovely article: some random vintage books with *drama* on a book theme. Thank you!
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"Murder at the ABA" (that's American Booksellers Association), by Isaac Asimov. A good read, he puts himself in as a minor character.
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I caught a basket star early this year at about 100mtrs depth while fishing for Dublin Bay prawn/Norway Lobster. And that was between the islands on the west side of Norway.
It looked kinda alien so I threw it back in the sea, but I took a picture first.
Here it is: http://yfrog.com/hqdsc01193jj
Cheers mate!
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There is a similar house in Brittany, France:
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Please cover the nuclear/electric sourced, electric bullet train networks of China and their infrastructure, the rice and veggies society they support - Americans need to see this!
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How can you cover streamlined steam trains without a piture of the A4 class locos such as 4468 Mallard, the fastest steam loco of all time
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The pictures from the Czech Republic are taken in Brno - the second lagrest city. There are exhibiton grounds near the city center that are conected to the railway system - mainly for the delivery of large exhibits or other special ocasions (like historical train exhibitions etc...) - it is not a regular street tram line. But you can encounter a train on the street occasionaly (under special traffic police surveilance), that is going to or from the exhibition grounds.
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Love this post, man. Your English is getting better, too. I just wonder if it is right to leave out the horrors of the human race for which trains have become a symbol (ie, cattle cars).
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To go on from what therealche said re: Mallard 4468 Mallard, the fastest steam loco of all time....
You can still travel behind the 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, the sister loco to the Mallard.
It is often on working loan from the UK National Railway Museum to the North Yorks Moors Railway, and also performs regularly on regular train routes. Detials can be found here http://www.sirnigelgresley.co.uk/
Believe me, it is a real pleasure to travel on a train hauled by such a beautiful, and impressive loco
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Here is a nice one you missed from Baltimore.
http://www.steamlocomotive.com/bomuseum/co490.jpg
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HELP!!!
I saw a cartoon as a kid about trains. It was in a very art deco style. From what i remember of the plot a little boy is in a train yard and he gets knocked unconscious and he has this crazy dream about conducting all the trains. I forgot the name, Does anyone know the name of the film I'm talking about?
It looks like in was made sometime from the 40's to the late 60's.
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Added the Mallard, absolutely. Baltimore's one is nice, too.
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We had a stream train in Victoria, Australia that was introduced in 1937 with the wonderful name of the Spirit of Progress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Progress
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Glad you added Mallard; perhaps it would have been good if you could see not only the "Locomotive" but the "Train" as well - it had some very interesting coaches which shared bogies, much like the modern "Eurostar."
And in terms of style, perhaps the rival to the LNER's Mallard is even more beautiful, the recently restored LMS Princess Royal class "Duchess of Hamilton"
http://www.aditnow.co.uk/cache/Personal-Album-856/Personal-Album-856-35343.jpg
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While you have included some pretty impressive locomotives, I am surprised at some of your omissions. Between the world wars DRG (Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft) produced some pretty amazing locomotives (and one that, with modifications, is the fasted steam locomotive (BR 18 201 at 180km/h) in use today. DRG created such giants as the BR 01.10 (150km/h), BR 03.10 (140km/h) and the mighty BR 05 (175km/h). The latter, in my opinion, outperformed Mallard as its highest performance was checked on level track against Mallard's downhill run (which, incidentally, nearly wrote off the loco. Also very interesting was the BR 61 ABS fitted tank engine (175 km/h)
You can see photos of these locos on Wikipedia. Also see http://www.germansteam.co.uk/FastestLoco/fastestloco.html#05trace (not my site).
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And no mention of the Titfield Thunderbolt either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Titfield_Thunderbolt
Doesn't matter what you post there's going to be hundreds that don't get a mention. Pity, there's so many beautiful locos out there.
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Awesome post mate! Trains were definitely far more glamourous back in the day than today's utilitarian - although sometimes impressively fast - contraptions. Saw the Mallard last year at York Railway Museum. Didn't they have to bring it to the States to test how fast it could go because British track wasn't straight for long enough? Also check out the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester - free museum and pretty understated, but loads of great stuff including trains and planes.
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thanks for sharing great stuff like these...
For further train series keep an eye on italian trains, you know Italy is famous for its Design, and Italian Designers really did their best in creating pretty unusual locos and trains.
See a complete overview here:
http://www.trenomania.org/fotogallery/index.php
scroll down for category like "FS Elletrotreni",
or spend some time on:
http://www.photorail.com/index2.htm
See especially: ETR.220, ETR.300 Settebello, ALe.790, E.424, RALn.60, ALn.56 and much more...
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@1379
I think the show you're looking for is "play safe".
http://www.archive.org/details/Play_Safe_1936
Amazing animation for a show from 1936. I grew up on this too.
As always, excellent article DRB. Keep up the good work.
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@1379
it was called play safe it was made in 1936 here is a link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUgyWhKlH78
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If anybody hears the spoken advertisements on DRB pages, please let us know by writing to abramsv@gmail.com. Such ads are not authorized by us and will be removed after we identify them (we can not hear them on our end) Thank you.
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how is novelty any better than sleek?
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These are amazing.
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These are too cool! The smiley face toaster is actually a pretty nice design (aside from the faces). My favorites though would have to be the oven mitts. I'm a total geek though. : )
http://evologynow.wordpress.com
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Wow! Kitchen appliances om a bungee rope! http://www.TheRopeIt.com
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6. Rollable Microwave Oven by Hyun Choi
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Unshielded open-air microwave oven?
NO THANKS
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I can't see the point why do we need to cube the egg. The car bread toaster is the best . Ha ha!
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Your comment for item number six is a bit mystifying to me... a delicate part of the human anatomy? Unless the guy who wrote the article has two dicks, I can't make out any obvious resemblance to any part of the human anatomy that I'm aware of.
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I do not "get" the Abbey Road one... unless it's just meant to show that some tech was used to change the POV of the album cover to make it look like a shot from above.
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@ RawheadD - Yeah, me too. I guess we're not the target audience.
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I think they're trying to say that their stock images are unlike that from any other company.
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Great ads. Some have to be made by a really brilliant artists.
In my country, there are also some creative adverts like in
this link. Just watch the video and enjoy:)
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I'm farely sure the Nemo one is a fake, i've seen several different versions of that particular image.
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@rawhead: Yeah, it means that they have images you've never seen before.
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Re: Spuk Pictures. The campaign was to remake famous photographs from different angles. Other shots in the campaign were: http://www.rochemontreps.com/gallery/matt-barnes/16.jpg & http://www.rochemontreps.com/gallery/matt-barnes/index-usa.php
thank you for adding it to you fantastic blog!
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I LOVE The Beatles!!
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I HATE The Beatles!!
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abbey road: they have pics you haven't seen but of subject matter that everyone has seen a million times - that's what makes it good: new angle on something.
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Re: tank monster - most likely a Soviet runway blower, you can tell by the shape of the exhaust. A wheeled vehicle wouldn't stand a chance in a good ol' fashioned Siberian snow storm.
about the Strange Tank Monster
The tank chassis is a Soviet T-55.
possible a radiation/chemical decontamination vehicle.
the longe pool over exhaust spray water
so jet engines to blast hot water onto contaminated vehicles to clean them.
and blow the contaminated steam far far far away
That first motorcycle appears to be inspired by the Bat-Pod from the dark Knight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Batpod.jpg
i post the tank picture at secret projects forum
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10520.msg99282;topicseen#msg99282
an got this aswer
Рrogrev-T, - "warming-up - Ti"
russian mine-sweep tank with a jet engine from the aircraft!
Blew the soil to open mines. It was tested (successfully) in Afghanistan.
link in in russian
http://media.aplus.by/index.php?newsid=38246
special thanks to Stranger_NN for information
Love the tetris pic! :)
Thank you Michel Van - great info! I updated the page.
About the "Progrev", the oil well jet extinction was actually the job of the polish "Big Wind", another amazing contraption (two jet engines on a T-34 frame) used after the Kuwait war.
If you haven't showed it here, you can see it here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/internationalmanofmystery/3282269378/ or here
http://cs.finescale.com/FSMCS/forums/t/26964.aspx
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