Comment removed based on user account deletion. The movie was Little Man Tate; Jodie Foster played the boy's mother. yee ha!

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the mechanical_gifs community. in my childhood i used to play alot with LEGO and had full shelves of LEGO in my room. There are also little playability issues with the extra swivel joints. It is much more impressive in real life.

We don't let our workers live in "shanty towns" that nobody cares about. Many technologies were created in the United States and/or countries with the resources. 11. It is interesting to note that many of the developing countries in Africa are the quickest to adopt the newer technologies because there was no previous infrastructure to be a support or hindrance. I've never had one, but those things always intrigued me because I thought it was so neat how they could "grow" like they do. As a follow up to yesterday's post mentioning Phyllis Lambert's Canadian Centre for Architecture, let's look at one print from the centre's collection. Bright minds like Corrinne's are what enabled you to post your trolls. Digital Art 3D Modeling. This is horrible - IANAL, but is there any evidence that he might not have invented unfolding? It's one of those things that probably took forever to design and assemble and tweak, but in the end does not actually end up being very impressive. Throw, bounce, spin, roll, or suspend it from the ceiling. Aeration machine. Then it will sit on the shelf.

So's the book. Get a life, stupid. And so on. Apparently you overestimate your peers, troll. Play. Fractal Sphere Steel. This sub is for .gif images that contain a subject matter of mechanical origin. Hoberman sphere conservation of angular momemntum. They look more like k'nex. http://www.stileproject.com/linux_chick.j pg, Re:toys, duals, viral crystal, synergetics. Is it about. Archived. Hoberman sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The print in question refers to Hoberman's Expanding Sphere, a mechanical structure made of curved links joined... Berlin-based media artist Nils Völker synchronizes 108 motorized Hoberman Spheres in his new solo show ‘Bits and Pieces’.

I got one of these last summer. Would I be welcome? Press J to jump to the feed. They scaled better than the Hoberman thing looks like it would. I think the intent was that the entire world would benefit from the technology [see the African "Ring of Fire"]. Introducing the breath ball to your child or group.

The holes in the structure were easily big enough to put your head in, and I remember 1 member of staff being able to ware it! There's this glow in the dark one that is a fantastic club toy. His stuff is used in Satellite deployment, among other things, due to it's expandability. other wise they wont work right, and you wont understand why).

Chuck Hoberman, the inventor of the ubiquitous Hoberman sphere, unveils a new sculpture. 131 comments.

217 Free images of 3D Sphere. In one of the first versions of encarta (think it was '95) My hometown (Örebro in Sweden) had an entry stating that the main industry was shoe-making and shipping minerals. This AC posted the "37337" trolls himself.

Any kind of toy which had screws in it. Like a hoberman sphere.

Comments owned by the poster. but then we started building things. Does it need to be improved? Second, here in America, corporations like to have what is know as "good will" associated with their name.

(I know I'm generation Y anyway).

All Rights Reserved. If you really like construction toys like Lego Technics, assume you'll get 4 to 8 hours of fun out these things. They have them at the Store of Knowledge and similar places. Yourself? 12. Close. 9. 8. With all your billions, don't you have anything better to do than take an hour out of your day to troll on. What we need now is someone to crack the unfolding scheme, or else come up with something even better. The Hoberman. Does this mean Chuck Hoberman is going to sue me for unfolding things? Its my OCD that makes me want to stick to rigid squares.

I dont go to a club in NYC/Philly without mine : ) Except I have a cool blue wire I put in mine I love being 5 again : ) hehe. That's funny. I used to work in The Gadjet Shop in Leeds, UK during the christmas of 1997. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That's patently false. Some poor dumbass with a lot of time on his hands and a senseless grudge against somebody he's probably never even met. I know this must be a foreign concept in South Africa where a few wealthy elite get rich exploiting peasent labor, so how the community views a business doesn't matter. I'm not sure of the exact year, but it was around 10 years ago that I saw Mr. Hoberman and his spheres on TV, and he had been working on them for some time before that. However, let's not forget that the internationally developed Linux is designed to run on the same hardware. There may be more comments in this discussion. These things are cool, but Legos will always be the best...they've survived longer than all sorts of cool building toys, and they're still going strong.