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Chinese homemade submarine

Chinese homemade submarine

admin | September 8, 2009 | Comments (13)

A Chinese labourer with only a basic school education has made a submarine at home. Tao Xiangli made the 1.6 tonnes submarine mostly from metal barrels and improvised parts by hand. Tao said the basic submarine cost him £2,200, the equivalent of a year’s pay. Tao is now in the final phase of debugging the [...]

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Mona Lisa comes to life

Mona Lisa comes to life

admin | September 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

This Mona Lisa chats with you in Beijing. A visitor looks at a three-dimensional, holographic version of the 16th century portrait “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci as it indicates not to move any closer in Beijing’s Alive Gallery August 21, 2009. This Mona Lisa is a digital re-creation courtesy of the Alive Gallery in [...]

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