Five deadly sci-fi inventions for your secret lair:
http://www.cracked.com/article_17127...d-at-home.html

Happy home hobbying.

 

Well, I was going to be bored all day... NOT ANYMORE!

 

A TESLA COIL!

Thank you, what a great home project

 

Well you found me out, I built one as a kid, been doing the electrical thing for ever. Got most of my patents from my high school studys of Nikola Tesla, read all of his lab notes. Here are a few of the better videos and a photo of Nickola Tesla his self, enjoy, Woody Heck I even got to work on a MHD generator back in the day...

Hank is the Chocolate siamese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7j5LKmd3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TppVcE3kc4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasp8...E4CDDB007BF922

 

Cool links, Woody, thanks.

Me I think I'm going to build the flashlight laser first.
I always wanted one since I read "Ringworld".

 

Better yet, how about a phaser?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/906366..._laser_phaser/

You can also build a $10 flashlight that outshines $100 ones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnkjvEdeIlc

 

Jeff,

a man after mine own heart. I first read L.N.'s Ringworld in 1974. It changed my habits forever. I have all of the Known Space series and only wish he were still poppin' them out.

And I would rather have a variable sword.

And Teela. Why do you think I married a girl named Tina?

 

Jeff,
If you ever get a real job, what are we all going to do with our time?


roadster with a stick

 

OK, guys, I have come up with an invention.
Now I'll be able to lay down on the job, post on the forum and do product testing simultaneously!!

Max - I agree, variable swords are awesome. Just let me in on that stasis field and monofilament technology, and I'll whip up a few.

 

Holy Sci-fi, Jeff!

I helped build a Tesla coil back in high school, after school hours (when we'd use $5.00 worth of nitric acid to melt pennies to the size of dimes & then use them in pay phones. Big fun when your 16 & it's 1970!) when we could 'experiment' with it.
I may still have the scars.........

Actually, I think your last "invention" might just be the trick for my job. I'd love to move one of those into my tiny workspace, plop in it & then disappear into my own little world; kinda like Al Bundy used to do when he went "on vacation".
Sigh........

Ringworld by Larry Niven

"In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality".

Or Heinlein, Clarke, Ellison, Asimov, Bradbury, Silverberg, Herbert, Lovecraft; your making me want to start diving back into the collection again.

 

I have 12 large cartons and 3 big bookcases to chose from. Wanna' look?

 

My hero!
Holy crap, Max! Got 3 nice sized bookcases myself! That's for the SF.
Then you've got to have your humor section, history section, ancient world section, oh heck.........
I cannot wait to meet you guys in a few weeks!

 

You guys have really got me thinking about some classic sci-fi now, so today I brought in Sturgeon's "More Than Human" for boredom relief.