Granted we’ve seen LEGO Mindstorm sets people have built to solve Rubik’s Cubes in the past, but never anything that moves with the speed and dexterity as CubeStorm CubeStorm Cubestorm . Whoa, nice echo effect. Kidding, I’m hiding in the closet (my mom’s trying to drag me to a doctor’s appointment). The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web camera to scan the faces of the cube, The solve engine (algorithm) running on the computer is provided by the incredible “Cube Explorer “software which also provides the colour recognition required to determine the exact location of each coloured square. Thanks to Herbert Kociemba for making his work available to anyone wishing to use it! Respect! “Cube Explorer” has the ability to produce very fast solutions to a successfully scanned cube, usually around 20 face turns! Doesn’t sound a lot , but it is believed that around 20 turns are enough to solve ANY 3×3x3 cube combination. I’m still working on “CubeStormer” I would like to see it reach sub-10 and feel it’s close to that. but reliability begins to suffer when you start to push things just that bit too far….. You know what else begins to suffer when you start to push robotics too far? Humanity. Just sayin’, you ever seen that movie Terminator ? I haven’t — I’ve got enough nightmare fodder! Youtube Thanks to Osku, Logisticz, Gir, Ringo, Raúl, meeotch, Frank, james, Bolleke, PrestickNinja, raficus and Clint, who would have disassembled that sucker and built a sweet-ass LEGO castle.

This is a video of a flashmob lightsaber fight that took place over the weekend at a mall in Britain. Now I’m not saying I would have screamed and soiled my pants had I been in the midst of all that, but I would have robbed the nearest jewelry store and blamed it on Luke Lightsaber over there. Over 100 Star Wars fans broke into an an massively epic lightsaber fight in Bristols Cabot Circus, a shopping mall in Bristol, England. The flashmob was organized online through facebook, and took place on February 13th 2010. Over 100 people is all it takes to be the world’s largest lightsaber fight? I would have figured it would at least take 1,000. But what do I know about world records? Besides, oh I don’t know, WORLD’S FASTEST LOVER! Aaaaand I’m good. Hit the jump for a longer, more professional video.

Before you start unzipping your pants I’m pretty sure that’s a dude. A dude holding the world’s largest lightsaber ! Which isn’t actually a lightsaber at all — it’s just the sky! CONSIDER YOURSELF OPTICALLY ILLOOSHED! Star Wars Hiker [thechive] Thanks to naas, who has an even bigger lightsaber but wouldn’t take his shirt off for a picture.

Remember the full-size LEGO house that was built and then subsequently demolished (there are kids in Africa that have to play with dirt, GOD!)? Well the episode of James May’s Toy Stories featuring the house finally aired, and this is part of it. I particularly liked the LEGO scrub brush/ loofah . Cute, James, but I think I’ll stick to exfoliating the good old fashioned way: with a gas-powered belt sander. Now, where’d I put that 60-grit? James May’s Lego House Finally Shown Being Lived In [gizmodo] Thanks to Alice, who’s seen me shave with a chainsaw before.

Remember the full-size LEGO house that was built and then subsequently demolished (there are kids in Africa that have to play with dirt, GOD!)? Well the episode of James May’s Toy Stories featuring the house finally aired, and this is part of it. I particularly liked the LEGO scrub brush/ loofah . Cute, James, but I think I’ll stick to exfoliating the good old fashioned way: with a gas-powered belt sander. Now, where’d I put that 60-grit? James May’s Lego House Finally Shown Being Lived In [gizmodo] Thanks to Alice, who’s seen me shave with a chainsaw before.

This is the world’s smallest snowman (at 0.01mm), not including the one I just made to beat it. Mine is a tenth the size and has more detail including a real carrot nose . Pfft, science — science ain’t got shit on magic! Back me up, Frosty. …this minuscule model — about a fifth the width of a human hair — is not made out of snow. It’s constructed of two tiny tin beads that are usually used to calibrate an electron microscope, and welded together with platinum. It’s built by David Cox, a nanotech expert at the Quantum Detection Group of Britain’s National Physical Laboratory. The remarkable flourish of his smiling snowman is its little happy face, carved into the top orb using a focused ion beam. Focused ion beam? What is this, the future? Regardless, a focus ion beam doesn’t even COMPARE to a beam of focused, um, magic particles. Which I can create from a single flourish of my wand penis. You know how many urinals I’ve exploded just shaking myself dry. Tens. World record: 0.01mm nano-snowman [dvice]

Well folks, there’s a new drunkest beer in town. And that beer is Tactical Nuclear Penguin by BrewDog Brewery in Scottland — at 32% alcohol by volume content . I WANT IT INSIDE ME! Too bad it’s gonna cost $49.50 a bottle . I’m sticking to isopropyl! A warning on the label states: “This is an extremely strong beer; it should be enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance. In exactly the same manner that you would enjoy a fine whisky, a Frank Zappa album or a visit from a friendly yet anxious ghost.” However Jack Law, of Alcohol Focus Scotland, described it was a “cynical marketing ploy” and said: “We want to know why a brewer would produce a beer almost as strong as whisky.” I don’t know what kind of idiot test you have to pass to join Alcohol Focus Scotland, but for the sake of Jack Law, the answer is, “to get people drunk”. Jesus, it’s not rocket surgery. ‘World’s strongest’ beer with 32% strength launched [bbcnews] Thanks to 2MechanicalArms, Kitteh and Ross, who once drank 240% alcohol and loved every sip of it.

This is a video taken from the top of the Burj Dubai , the tallest building in the world, at 2,684 ft. Jesus, that’s half a mile . Can you believe humans are even capable of this? I can’t — I shit my swim trunks on the high dive once. But, to my credit, I did do one hell of a cannonball. This Video From the Tip Top of the Burj Dubai Makes Me Sick to My Stomach [gizmodo] Thanks to Rick, who has dived off higher platforms into a cup of water. I mean, he died, but he did do it.

Where was this when I was growing up ? Not in my backyard , that’s where! I did have a Cabbage Patch Kids playhouse though, so there. And you know what? There was a wasp nest in the roof , but did that stop this future blogger from playing house ? HELL NO IT DIDN’T. Well, if you did find yourself fancying your childhood treehouse as the world’s greatest, you may find yourself having to think again after getting to see the treehouse Horrace Burgess has built around Crossville in the United States state of Tennessee. You start to appreciate the greatness of the treehouse Horrace Burgess has built when the figures are brought in. Standing at 97 feet in height, one agrees that the structure Horrace Burgess has built is the structure to beat, if you want to lay a claim to owning (or even having seen) thegreatest treehouse in the world. Impressive, Horrace, but where’s the ‘No gurlz allowd’ sign? And don’t EVEN tell me you let females in that thing. THAT IS BREAKING THE SACRED BOND OF TREEHOUSE OWNERSHIP. Punishable by, um, letting me crash there for a week month. Come on, I’ll eat your squirrel problem! Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures and the link to even more.

Where was this when I was growing up ? Not in my backyard , that’s where! I did have a Cabbage Patch Kids playhouse though, so there. And you know what? There was a wasp nest in the roof , but did that stop this future blogger from playing house ? HELL NO IT DIDN’T. Well, if you did find yourself fancying your childhood treehouse as the world’s greatest, you may find yourself having to think again after getting to see the treehouse Horrace Burgess has built around Crossville in the United States state of Tennessee. You start to appreciate the greatness of the treehouse Horrace Burgess has built when the figures are brought in. Standing at 97 feet in height, one agrees that the structure Horrace Burgess has built is the structure to beat, if you want to lay a claim to owning (or even having seen) thegreatest treehouse in the world. Impressive, Horrace, but where’s the ‘No gurlz allowd’ sign? And don’t EVEN tell me you let females in that thing. THAT IS BREAKING THE SACRED BOND OF TREEHOUSE OWNERSHIP. Punishable by, um, letting me crash there for a week month. Come on, I’ll eat your squirrel problem! Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures and the link to even more.