<![CDATA[Gizmodo: the end of the world]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: the end of the world]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/the end of the world http://gizmodo.com/tag/the end of the world <![CDATA[ Giant Paper Boat Made from Tetrabriks, Allows Real Sailors on Board ]]> Artist Frank Boelter has constructed a 9-metre paper boat from the stuff used to make Tetrabrik packs and is sailing it up the Elbe. The 37-year old artist came up with the idea one breakfast time, while he was sitting at his kitchen table fiddling with an empty milk carton, which he cut up and made into a scaled-down model. See how they built it after the jump.

boat-timeline.jpgA 1884-sq ft sheet of Tetrapak was folded to make the boat, which is almost 30 feet long and weighs 55 pounds. Named "Bis Ans Ende der Welt" or Until The End Of The World, the $217 boat took just two hours to construct, and Frank reckons it will survive forty days (and, I assume, forty nights) before it disintegrates into a soggy mass of sinkability. I wonder if he'll do a paper airplane next? [Spluch and Abendblatt through Google Translate]

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Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:03:27 EDT AddyDugdale http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292996&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Gammawatch: Radiation Detector ]]> Tower2.gifApparently, "more and more ordinary citizens are interested in personal radiation protection. " Really? Tell me more!

The $250 GammaWatch Basic packs a plethora of paranoia tucked inside a fine looking timepiece. Using a solid state radiation detector, the watch displays any threatening levels of radiation displayed in immediate and cumulative exposure (3 months after the bomb drops, you will know just how much radiation was required for your third nose to fall off). At last, we have an affordable method to fine-tune our experiments with turtles/spiders/bunnies. And don't knock bunny powers, they run really, really fast. Plus they are cuddly.

Product Page [via ohgizmo]

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Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:17:27 EST Mark Wilson http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=220700&view=rss&microfeed=true