John Sisler

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Is this a joke? The Glass Tank is a design concept that supposedly replenishes your drink from its bulbous appendage, keeping a constant amount of grog in your glass. Could it actually work without painting the front of your shirt the deep red color of your favorite Beaujolais?

As the designers say in simple terms, “It is a glass for drinking a lot.” We’re just wondering, is this a design that was created while drinking a lot? The designer says the glass never overflows “because of air pressure and water pressure.” Insert miracle here. Is it us, or is this impossible?

Rocket scientists, plumbers, smarty-pants commenters — help us out here, because if this thing works, it would be a great conversation piece at a party, as well as a convenient way to get tanked. And when stopped for driving erratically, you could truthfully blurt out, “Yes, officer, I had just one drink.”

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Model rockets are cool enough, but this 36-foot-tall monster is the largest flying model rocket in the world. Built by Steve Eves, this Saturn V model weighs 1,600 pounds, took him 1,500 hours to build, and cost $25,000. Good thing he got some sponsors to foot that humongous bill.

This gargantuan model doesn’t just sit there, either. Powered by eight (relatively) big N-Class model rocket engines and one gigantic P-Class engine, it’s going to shoot up to 4,000 feet this Saturday (April 25th), and float gently back to earth using three parachutes.

Can’t wait to see what happens. It’s only fitting that Eves picked the Saturn V rocket for his world record attempt, inspired as a kid when he watched the largest launch vehicle ever made send the first humans to the moon. Sheesh, and we were impressed with our 12-inch-tall Estes rockets.

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Look, I’m as big a fan of awesome Xbox 360 case mods as the next guy, but I’m not sure I’d drop hundreds of dollars on one. I mean, sure, this transparent Xbox 360 case with a laser-etched Master Chief and blue LEDs is pretty slick, but you’re just setting yourself up for heartbreak.

After all, with a normal Xbox 360, if it dies with the dreaded Red Ring of Death you can just send it in to Microsoft and get it fixed under the three-year standard warranty. With this guy, if it breaks you’re pretty much screwed. So why risk it? I’d say it makes more sense to focus on the aesthetics of objects that don’t have a high probability of needing replacement in the near future.

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