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Designed and built over the course of five years and at a cost of $100 million by ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbH the Bagger 288 is the largest mobile machine in the world. This bucketwheel excavator weighs a staggering 45,500 tons and is 95 meters high and 215 meters long. It has a maximum digging speed of ten meters a minute and can dig out a total of 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock and earth in a day. Below are a couple of galleries of Bagger 288 in action including a shot of it chewing up and spitting out a comparitively tiny front-end loader. |
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Japanese company Elecom recently released an USB-powered optical disk destruction device called the SCR-CD001. Somewhat similar to a harmonograph (or some other pen-pattern device that I cannot properly labeled) the SCR-CD001 etches a pattern into a CD/DVD in a mere five seconds rendering the disk unreadable without some serious buffing. Seems like the Microwave Tesla Coil method is more sure and makes for much sweeter pictures or just break the disk you want destroyed in half or even shread it. Still if you want the fancy pattern the SCR-CD001 will be available at the end of the month in .jp for about $26. |
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These scissors provide a unique way to shred paper documents (the translation notes: “Cash card and the credit card, CD-ROM and the like is not cut off” so apparently, no thick stuff). I think I will stick to my crosscut letter-sized shredder regardless of how cool these scissors look. The shredder scissors have a price of about $18. |
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