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more about #elephant more comments → jjigen: what's going on there? an elephant orgy? more » Markarian: Wow, and I only thought iDEN phones were allowed to be that rugged and ugly. more » Fryee: I hate to say this... but I take it it won't blend? more » gloveofpower: "so you can hear it when it's under elephants" this made me laugh. I'm trying to imagine the scenario where this would occur. more » Nick: unless it's a satellite phone -- i don't think it would do you any good out on safari. but what do i know, maybe africa has great cell reception. trib... more » Purple Dave: Give it to the grinder-belly "Will It Float" girl on Letterman, use it as a frisbee over concrete, and take it to the batting cage. You know, just bec... more » NotSoSiniSter: that thing is morbidly OBESE!! OMG stop going to McDonalds. more » Weihovah: they should've tested this against a snow leopard, not a tiger more » omarabuhashish: Is it me or is it really bad for that Tigers teeth to be chewing on that? Wheres PETA when they are actually useful? Wait they never are? more » Weihovah: how do they do that w/o a unibody design? more » Kalamaty: The captions for that picture will be vast. Also some hilarious tests for this thing, but impressive still, considering a drop is enough to harm some ... more » rambo3060: lets curb all these usb drive posts...i think we get the idea that anything can become a usb flash drive. more » 92BuickLeSabre: This strikes me as the kind of gift that somebody's aunt picks up for them as a high school graduation gift because they know that in college the kid ... more » CoH: Maybe I'm just being too practical, but it doesn't seem like the USB will actually be able to plug into a USB port as the elephant's upper body is in ... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Looks like this Flash drive has elephantiasis.... Which is rather swell for a USB drive, but not so much for a guy. more » -
#countingelephants
You Can Count Elephants By Just Using Acoustic Gear, So Drop That Poop
How do you count elephants in the jungles of Africa? You can either collect their excrement or you can listen. No, seriously. The Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University has figured out how to count elephants using acoustic monitoring. More » -
#cellphones
Land Rover S1 Phone Tested By Elephants: It Really Is The Strongest Phone
This is why the Sonim/Land Rover S1 phone is the toughest phone yet: it can stand an elephant stomp, being run over an actual Land Rover and being tossed out of a second floor window. Plus... More » -
#toughbook
Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots
Most of us have no need for Panasonic's Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. More » -
#usb
Elephant Flash Drive's Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
If you think that trunk is impressive, wait until you see this Elephant's giant dongle. The 4GB USB flash drive whips out from the beast's underbelly when you're ready for it to mount your computer. [XTremeGeek via GeekyGadgets via CraziestGadgets] -
#robots
Amazing Mechanical Elephant Is Not Afraid of USB Mice
Steampunk may be tired, but this mechanical elephant has left us speechless with its design and detail. It's just stunning, from tail to trunk. Built over the course of three and a half months by photographer/designer/cool-guy-at-large Andrew Chase, the 85-pound elephant automaton is made out of "transmission parts, electrical conduits, plumbing pipes and 20-gauge cold rolled steel." The elephant is part of a book he is writing, called the Robot Trionic Morphatractable Engineer. As you will see in the gallery, the designs he's creating for that are even more spectacular than this one. More » -
#robots
Cute Elephant Robot Drinks Human Urine
Those crazy inventors over at Mertec in Japan have recently unveiled their newest creation—a robot elephant designed to clean urinals. The man behind the unique design claims that the elephant theme came to him because he imagined the trunk as "a powerful reversal of the urinal drain." The idea of reversal is even represented in the robot's brand name "DCBA" (ABCD). Mertec claims that DCBA can clean a urinal in 10 seconds and save 8 liters of water in the process. All I know is that if I ever travel to Japan and see one of these things patrolling a bathroom, I'm keeping my junk tucked safely in my pants. [Impress via 3yen]
