Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat

Artist sets sail in life-size paper boat via Digg

Boelter [the boat's designer] said it will survive forty days before it disintegrates into a wet, sinking mass.

It’s aqua-origami, all right, but is it art?

I remember a game in my high school physics class where the everyone class made life-size paper boats out of whatever material student could scavange. The raft that won, was made out of 30+ milk cartons glued water tight. The other boats had varying degrees of success and the pool was a mess from the Elmer’s glue that we were required to use.

Geeky Vanity Plates via Digg

You’d think Chuck’s license plate would be in here, but “podcast” is still a bit too niche to show up on anyone’s radar.

The Pear Light: Portable light bulbs that grow on trees via Digg

Now that I think about it, here’s an idea that should’ve been around since Uncle Fester was on TV. I guess it just wan’t practical until LED technology matured.

Marv

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