Next time you forget the combination to your locker, you might turn to a team of students at Olin College of Engineering. Instead of using the brute-force method of hammer and cold-chisel preferred by tough-guys such as me, they opted to be egg-heads, and built a robot that will solve any Masterlock combination un under two hours. Read More…
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This post was written by Journalist on March 9, 2011
If you worked at Tamiya, the Japanese model-kit company, you’d have the chance to hand out the coolest business-card ever made. At first glance the letters on the “card” look like a stencil cut into plastic. Peek a little closer and you see that it is itself a tiny model kit.
Break the letters from their surrounding frame and then snap them together. Depending on which card you have, you’ll end up with a Formula One car, a warship or a fighter-plane. According to the Coloribus advertising archive, the cards proved so popular that they had people “rushing to the shops” to ask for them.
The downside? Once the recipient has ripped your card apart to make a model, he no longer has your contact details. Oops.
Model Kits Shop: Tamiya Business Card [Coloribus via the Giz]
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Source:wired.com
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This post was written by Journalist on July 15, 2010
