Ordos – A Skate Trip to Inner Mongolia
Ordos is a ghost town located in Inner Mongolia. Seeing the potential of this city in terms of spots they decided to organize a skate trip and be the first ones to skate such a surreal place.
Oracle Team USA Capsizes its Biggest, Baddest Boat
In this photos taken October 16, 2012 and provided by Oracle Team USA, crew members of the capsized Oracle Team USA AC72 boat are rescued after being swept past the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The America’s Cup champion syndicate is assessing the damage to its 72-foot catamaran, after it capsized and was swept by a strong current more than four miles past the Golden Gate Bridge before rescue boats could control it.
A day after 11 sailors found the limits of an $8 million racing boat being primed for next year’s America’s Cup, flipping it in San Francisco Bay, they took stock Wednesday of the fallout: shards of wreckage, a waterlogged hull and the prospect of four months without a boat. (Photos by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA/Associated Press)
Continue reading »
A Bicycle Made of Cardboard? Yup, and It’s Only $20
A bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard will potentially change transportation forever. Engineers told cycling enthusiast Izhar Gafni that it was impossible, yet he knew that cardboard could be very strong if properly treated.
Crazy and Funny Sports Photos
These are the funniest sports photos I found.
The camera is a magical device that can capture split-second moments that the human eye can’t fully register, for example sports photos. Pictures can inspire, create ideas, start change and connect humans around the world. And then there are pictures that you can laugh at because some guy pooped his pants. Like I said, a magical device. If you guys have some others, please share them for us all to see.
Sometimes, perseverance has a price. And a smell. Sport is about strength, grit, determination, success…and definitely humor. Laughing at iconic sports moments, and some that are less iconic and just cry-till-you-drop funny, is just a part of the game. Sport is not only good for your health but can also improve your sense of humor as it provides lots of material for fun blog like this one! I understand that a bit unfair to laugh at athletes while they are doing their job – after all we all look stupid sometimes! I bet you can’t resist laughing at these funny and crazy sports images taken at the right moment. I have to admit these are quite addictive.
GoPro – Hero3 video
Here is the last GoPro video release between sea, mountain and amazing natural spaces filmed by the last Wi-Fi enabled Hero3.
Continue reading »
Felix Baumgartner- First man to break the Speed of Sound in Freefall
Today Felix Baumgartner become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall, with 1,24 Mach – 843 mph. He made the historic Jump, the skydiving, from Red Bull Stratos stratospheric balloon’s capsule, from the record breaking altitude of 128,100feet – 39,045km.
Back on October 14th, 1947, as today, the X1 aircraft, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager, succeeded the first manned supersonic flight. See the more for the X-1 aircraft.
The Red Bull Stratos
The Red Bull Stratos mission carried Felix Baumgartner to an altitude of over 128,000 feet — 8,000 feet higher than planned — when the daredevil took the plunge into thin air. Despite a minor issue with Baumgartner’s visor causing it to fog up unexpectedly, the ascent progressed as planned. The New Mexico weather even allowed a picture perfect ascent over Roswell.
Felix Baumgartner Breaks High-Altitude World Record!
Felix Baumgartner – 39km jump
Felix Baumagartner just did it! #stratos
Altitude: 128,097 ft (39.04km)
Duration of freefall: 4:19
Total jump time: 9:03
Speed: 1137 kmh
The Human Hamster Wheel
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lh8MiSmk-to
A man is attempting to walk across the Irish Sea – in a human HAMSTER WHEEL. Chris Todd, 35, from Bromham, Wiltshire, will zig-zag 66 miles across open water for two days non-stop.
