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The BrickGun lego guns may not be something you want your kid carrying around, but it does fulfill a bit of nostalgia for those of us who grew up in the lego generation. The BrickGuns are a collection of lego kits with both directions and pieces that build life-size gun mockups with moving parts. These babies may not fire projectiles, but the trigger, the hammer, the safety and the magazines function just like the real thing. And if you try to hold up your local liquor store with one of these, you can bet that you’ll be treated seriously (not that we suggest or condone that, of course).
BrickGun kits are available for purchase starting at $64.99 for the 9mm lego gun, and $69.99 for the Desert Eagle model. If you’ve got a hefty collection of legos hanging around from your childhood (or your child’s childhood), you can opt to purchase the plans alone via CD or download. These start at $4.99. While we don’t know what use these might provide you, other than looking cool and reliving your lego-studded past, BrickGuns are certainly one of the more interesting peculiarities we’ve seen on the web in some time.
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The two greatest criticisms of wind power farms are their construction costs and the visual drain they pose on otherwise natural environments. Suppose, however, there was a way to cut building costs by using existing infrastructure– and to add these eyesores to existing eyesores. A group of enterprising, eco-conscious thinkers have dreamed up a plan where existing electricity towers are used as wind power sources. The “Wind It” project by Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin, and Raphael Menard proposes a string of the tower-ported wind turbines to be placed in wind-sensitive areas, then feeding this freely-generated power directly back into the grid. While the project was conceived for France, the team insists that this technology could be employed in China, in the US and otherwise. We wouldn’t mind this tech powering our homes… would you? [via inhabitat ]
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Electricity Tower Wind Turbine Gallery :
