I was thinking about the "holy grails" of the mechanical world, the objects that represent the application of tremendous machining skills, tools and inventiveness. My personal ones include the Norden bomb sight, the Lord's prayer engraved on the head of a pin by the Gorton Co., a C.E.J. Mikrokator that measures to a millionth of an inch, the Harrison chronometer and some of the chiming mechanisms being developed by the Long Now foundation. I realize that these are only a few of the amazing devic...

This thread was originally made in Notepad for posting on some of my more regular forums- I figured I'd post it here, now. I update it occasionally. The cool and futuristic stuff hyperthread, at over 55 thousand characters. Cool Stuff From this point down, stuff not partaining necessarily to the future but still cool will be shown- scroll down for futuristic stuff, which tends to be more interesting The real Gundam Weaboos, rejoice! A 59-foot-tall “life-size” statue of the popular anime's Gundam...

Hve you seen The matrix trilogy? the terminator movies? AI? I robot? All these movies hold a similar future that has started. Humans build robots, robots have AI, Robots turn on humans. The ficitional movies and stories made have very possible realistic outcomes and its all started with these videos and article s ive compiled, Please take a look at these things ive found and give me your opinion, Robots helping elderly? doing are house work? building are electronics in factories and performing m...