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more about #jet The Curse of Harold Ballard's Bunker: You're all wrong. It's an early prototype of Boris Yeltsin's mobile vodka still. The turbine sucks the potatoes right out of the ground and the vodka ... more » IN THE FACE!: Yeah, I would guess snow blower or oil-well fire extinguisher, I have seen several of the latter with a similar setup, although the jet engines in tha... more » cajun2001: Yikes! Goggle Video-searching "Russian Snow Blower" yields interesting results. more » AlphaPepper: I was going to say runway dryer, and/or plane de-icer. more » Barry99705: Looks almost like one of the methods of blowing out an oil well fire, by literally blowing it out! more » Jonax: Looks like the Russians finally have their hands on Scrapheap Challenge. more » UbadahTethys: It's a de-icing machine (actually just an old turbine mounted on a truck). They are used in the winter to blow out the snow and ice that sometimes acc... more » N1k0s: It's a cigarette lighter. more » egoods: How can there not be a single YouTube video of something like this being used? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: A huffer unit for a plane? more » MelindaJibroni: I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but what this device is ACTUALLY used for is starting jet engines on aircraft like the Boeing 747 or the like. When the... more » Curves: Looks like SOMEONE is compensating. more » STFU_FPU!: I know what it's NOT: circumsized more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: This is the Binford version of a T-Shirt launcher. more » dimsum4u: Red Communist Button. more » Kaiser-Machead: And this wasn't posted at 4:20 why? more » rancemuhamitz: Fire extinguisher? more » yungjerry703: run way heater? ice on the run way has got to be a problem out there. more » TheSonOfKrypton: I absolutely LOVE when companies attempt to use gimmicks like these to sell their likely *lackluster* products. It just makes me feel all warm and fu... more » Benguin: I think the ad is shit, but I suppose I'll play devil's advocate and try to defend it a bit? Maybe the point was with all these fake "viral videos" f... more » -
#imagecache
What Is This?
Please, can somebody tell me what the hell is this green thing parked in a Russian airfield? Who built this nutty contraption? More » -
#motionsensing
Samsung's Holographic Gesture-Based Eye Candy Upstages Product Announcement
At the announcement of their new superfast Jet phone, Samsung used used Project Natal-esque holographic gestures for effect. The Jet seems cool, but we just want to hear more about the holographic gimmickry! More » -
#viralvideos
Samsung's New 'Viral' Video Doesn't Even Try to Look Real
Maybe I'm a cynic, but this seems like the laziest stab at making a "viral" video yet. Samsung wants to promote their new Jet phone, so they pretended they pulled a crazy stunt in London. More » -
#airplanes
The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back to 1979, Please?
Many of our Gizmodo '79 posts have illustrated just how far we've come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009's ass: The Concorde Jet. More » -
#gadgets
Romulan Planet Drill Now In Testing Stages, For Real
If everything goes well, soon we will be able to reach the center of the Earth using 7200ºF flame jets that can go into any kind of material at 100 feet an hour. Wait, "if everything goes well"? More » -
#cellphones
Samsung Jet Actually Rocket Powered: 800MHz Processor, Six-Sided Cube Interface, Webkit Browser
Here's the Samsung Jet—it's got an 800MHz processor (obviously they want you to know what's inside, unlike Apple), a pure Samsung six-sided Cube interface, and a WebKit browser. More » -
#espionage
Cyber-Spies Hack Into Ultra-Sensitive Pentagon Fighter Jet Project
Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project and made off with several terabytes of code. The Pentagon, and consequently the Wall Street Journal, suspects Chinese involvement. More » -
#cars
Tramontana R-Editon: Some F1 Racer Knocked Up a Jet
The Tramontana R-Editon, an F1/jet hybrid, is not some fantasy rendering. It's a real vehicle you can buy right now. More » -
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#space
Skylon Rocket/Jet Hybrid Is, Scientifically Speaking, Super Cool
The Skylon reusable space plane takes off from an airport runway, burns atmospheric oxygen, switching to liquid oxygen and hydrogen to hit escape velocity and attain orbit. At least, it will in 10 years. More » -
#greed
Obama Tells Citigroup To Abandon Plans For a $50 Million Tricked Out Corporate Jet
If you ever wondered why our banks are failing, the answer, my friends, is greed. Greed that President Obama is trying to put an end to—starting with Citigroup's plans for a $50 million jet. More » -
#ridiculous
Jet-Powered Batmobile is the Flattest Car Ever
This crazy, crazy "Flatmobile" is going to enter the Guinness books as the flattest vehicle ever. How flat is it? Nineteen inches. I think that's about how flat we'd be if we laid on our backs (depending on what's on our minds and what we ate for lunch). Not only is this Batmobile-like contraption dangerous, it's extremely dangerous—creator Perry Watkins shoved a gas turbine jet engine on the butt. It's also supposedly street legal, but we wouldn't want to be in it during a rollover. Or when the jet turbine catches fire because the AFTERBURNER FAILED. See that video after the jump. [Flatmobile via Nexus 404] More » -
#retromodo
World's Wackiest Vehicles According to Uber-Review
Uber-Review is promoting a neat feature it held way back in 2006, which shows ten of the craziest racers they could find on the old tubes. The list is a compilation of some of the vehicles we have seen before, but it is great to have them all in one place. Some of the speeding goodies include the Pac Man Car, Surface Orbiter, Rocket Bike and a bevy of others. The Hemi Trike is pictured above, which we think you will agree is completely ridiculous, but then again, it's not quite as ludicrous as the Jet Powered Beetle. Oh yes, there's a jet that spins up to 26,000 rpm when activated—crazy. Jump to check it out. More »
