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“Fight Club”, dir. David Fincher, 2002

Wake me up before you go-go 
Don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I don’t want to miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
‘Cause I’m not plannin’ on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that high (yeah, yeah)

“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, created by Wham!, 1984

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sinistersartorialist:

INTRODUCING: THE WORLD’S FIRST BULLETPROOF SUIT (via Kempt)

—————————————————— More deets: After months of exhaustively scientific R&D, the gents of Toronto’s Garrison Bespoke have introduced the first-ever three-piece bulletproof suit, and they’re taking orders now. Herewith, a by-the-numbers breakdown of what that means to you: Months spent in development with US Special Forces suppliers: 12 Layers of carbon nanotubes hidden beneath the pinstripes: 7 Length-to-diameter ratio of said nanotubes: 132,000,000:1 Minutes spent Googling what the hell that means: 11 Amount this suit is stronger than steel: 30 times Amount this suit is lighter than Kevlar: 50% Gun calibers now impenetrable: .35, .45, .22 Corporate takeovers: 100% safer Cost of owning one yourself: $20,000 Feeling like James Bond: priceless *** I’ll take one in Klein Blue

So, teratocybernetics raises a point: Carbon Nanotubes are an inhalation hazard: Some info about the potential hazard is here: http://www.safenano.org/Portals/3/SN_Content/Documents/DOWNLOADS/LCA%20-%20Textiles_v2011_Europe.pdf

But more info should be gathered.

AirWaves connected mask sold separately – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zfI32zo4gc

None dare call it a Bane mask.
Or suggest that a pollution map for the .01%ers might include teh unwashed.

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wolvensnothere:

sinistersartorialist:

INTRODUCING: THE WORLD’S FIRST BULLETPROOF SUIT (via Kempt)

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More deets:

After months of exhaustively scientific R&D, the gents of Toronto’s Garrison Bespoke have introduced the first-ever three-piece bulletproof suit, and they’re taking orders now.

Herewith, a by-the-numbers breakdown of what that means to you:

Months spent in development with US Special Forces suppliers: 12
Layers of carbon nanotubes hidden beneath the pinstripes: 7
Length-to-diameter ratio of said nanotubes: 132,000,000:1
Minutes spent Googling what the hell that means: 11
Amount this suit is stronger than steel: 30 times
Amount this suit is lighter than Kevlar: 50%
Gun calibers now impenetrable: .35, .45, .22
Corporate takeovers: 100% safer
Cost of owning one yourself: $20,000
Feeling like James Bond: priceless

*** I’ll take one in Klein Blue

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ISRO was founded in 1969. In the last 44 years, it has achieved remarkable feats on a shoe-string budget. India has its own satellites for communication, weather data, agricultural data, and military applications. ISRO’s R&D has not just helped India remain a technologically advanced country, it has also saved lives. In 1999, a fierce cyclone hit India’s east coast, killing more than 10,000 people. Earlier this year, an even more powerful cyclone hit the same region but caused only a handful deaths. One of the main reasons for this contrast is that India’s improved weather-monitoring systems provided accurate early warnings.

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The other key part of BMW Designworks’ proposal is taking the L.A. River and other tributaries and filling them with enough water so these little submarines can travel around the city on these newly created “subways.” In the winter the water does flow tremendously deep through these channels, so they reasoned that flooding the channels permanently would create a dual benefit of replenishing L.A.’s groundwater and preventing billions of gallons of stormwater from flowing directly into the ocean.

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While we probably won’t have these fleets of Mini-subs taking over our waterways just yet, this concept does help us start to think of L.A. as more of a river city. The BMW Designworks team sees us not only using existing rivers and bays for transportation, but also reinstating Venice Beach’s canal system (which was once much larger than it is now), and possibly daylighting more creeks that have been asphalted over.

Maybe more feasible is a coastal transportation network—which, right now, only really consists of private ferries to Catalina—that would allow people in, say, Marina del Rey to commute to Long Beach via ferry instead of the 405 Freeway, or to take a water taxi from Santa Monica to Malibu and thus avoid traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway.

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Inspired by bioluminescence in jellyfish, the Mini Cooper pods would use a chemical reaction created when salt and fresh water mix in the presence of certain bacteria, creating hydrogen fuel. This process not only generates energy, but the water intake/outtake system can also serve as the propulsion method for the craft. Tiny “cleaner” robots, inspired by many types of fish that do this in real life, keep the Mini clean by nibbling algae from its surfaces.

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