Jim Garlitz, a man who runs a pizza shop in Maryland, has combined a Yamaha Virago motorcycle with an outboard engine to create, uh, this thing, the water chopper. Capable of doing 37 mph, it looks like it was invented long ago and called the jetski. It also looks like I wouldn’t want to get on it. Unless I was using it as a pirating vessel to rob all the stupid tourists that rent those floating big wheel bikes at the beach. Yarr, your money and your jewels! I Man Builds Water Chopper [ubergizmo]

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Allegedly this is the world’s first “fully morphable” bed. It is constructed of plush spheres, attached by elastic bands. Now I’m not entirely sure what “fully morphable” means, but I think that my current bed (which is a sleeping bag) is, making this the second fully morphable bed. But that’s beside the point. The point is that this thing is going to take the construction of blanket forts in my mother’s kitchen to a whole new level.

First Fully Morphable Ball Bed [techeblog]

As a world renowned architect, I grew up building a lot of LEGO sets. Most of them skyscrapers and other buildings of my own design. Now, No Starch Press is releasing a book of LEGO designs (208 pp., $24.95) that you were not allowed to make growing up, most of which are weapons. I had a lot of these ideas as a kid though. Of course my “Lego Grenade” looked a lot less like a grenade and more like my drunken mother smashing one of my houses against the wall because I hid her liquor.

A video after the jump.

Being a NASA astronaut (and international playboy), I’ve known about Aerogel (aka: frozen smoke, blue smoke, solid smoke, tasteless jello) since before it was invented. Having been on the scene for a while, many of you may be familiar with the material already, but for those of you out there that aren’t, all you need to know is one thing: Its coolness is of mythical proportions.

Aerogel, one of the world?s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C. Scientists are working to discover new applications for the substance, ranging from the next generation of tennis rackets to super-insulated space suits for a manned mission to Mars.

I actually had a bed made of Aerogel a few years ago, but one of my live in girlfriends at the time moved it to clean. When I came home from work and threw myself down where the bed used to be I broke all my ribs. Now I live in the hospital.

Check out the article for lots more info. Then buy some on ebay and send it to me.

Aerogel Frozen Smoke is Awesome [thanks to ladykiller Bryon for the article]