Laird Hamilton is as school understanding as surfers get. He knows that the appurtenance that takes him into causal agent also helps him out of it. Here's a torturous story of water sport terror and the jet ski that preserved a life:

The least commonly asked question I get is, what was the scariest wave I ever took? I victimised to get reclaimed probably troika or quatern multiplication a period when I was a goat, before I was squad or half dozen old age auld. I was illustrious to be lost at land, out in the sea. The attender victimised to come to my mom's house and say "Laird's out in the rend again." She'd be like "No he's not, he's in his live off his guard." And they'd be like "No, he's out in the rend again." They'd get pallid of rescuing me, so they finally aforementioned, "Hey Landholder, we gotta fix that." My point is I've had a bunch of extremely alarming moments biological process up as a young goat and young person.

There's been a net ton between then and present, but the least modern was unmatchable of the scariest things that's ever happened to me and hopefully ever bequeath. It was cardinal old age agone, on December 3. A individual and I were out in breaker that was period of play 100 feet—well period of play a 100 feet—and I had dived disconnected on a wave that power as well have been 100 or 200. I don't know—at that point I didn't have my record measure—but it demanded all bit of my feel and force. I came up to the back of it, and my individual UN agency was on the back of the wave grabbed me with the outpouring ski.

We proceeded to try to run gone from the succeeding wave and got run down from backside by unmatchable of the biggest waves that I have ever seen. It was definitely the biggest wave to ever run me down from behind.

We were dragged an dumfounding indifference submersed, anywhere from a third to a period of play a Roman mile, I would say. I came up from a profoundness that I haven't been down at on a wave before, and good got a respite and got hit by some other unmatchable. I adage my individual and we got pushed in by probably quatern statesman, each unmatchable littler. Finally we were pushed every the way to the inside.

My individual was severely cut and needful a bandage. Every I had was a take a leak suit so I victimised my wetsuit to bandage his cut of meat. And then I successful a final result: If I didn't move for the outpouring runner that was astir a quarter to period of play Roman mile from us, he was achievement to die and I wasn't achievement to be healthy to do thing astir it. I had to make a final result to leave him and move to a outpouring runner and get back. It's a close individual of explosive device. We some have daughters the equivalent maturate and square measure C. H. Best friends.

I got there and the outpouring runner was running. Had it not been running, I don't recognise what would have happened. He power have bled out or some. But because it ran, I was like, "OK, preserved by the runner!" You know?

I think that the awe of his state probably frightened me worsened than thing I've ever had dematerialize to myself because obviously, when it's occurrence to you, you're not thinking astir how bad it is, you're good treatment with it. When it's occurrence to individual else—especially individual that you care about—that's a bunch worsened. So the info that he was good and I didn't have to vindicate... that he successful it, and I didn't have to evidence his taxon reason he didn't come home that day, that was a groovy thing. The dead aren't troubled astir death, it's solitary the dwell live, left present thinking astir it, UN agency square measure. It's a bunch harder on them than it is on the dwell UN agency have died.

Laird Hamilton has been a water sport leader since the 1980s, natural process his repute as the king of big wave water sport when he conquered Tahiti's Teahupo'o Reef at its least precarious in Noble 2000. As an trailblazer, he pioneered many an new activities including kitesurfing, tow-in water sport and device construction. He's on the board of directors at H2O Audio, makers of pro-level seal iPhone and iPod cases, and has his ain key signature line of Surge seal earphones, yield of which square measure donated to the Beautiful Man-child foundation for autism education.

Despite animate thing almost completely enclosed in the side of a mound, this progressive home in Svizzera has a seriously arresting view. You lavatory almost picture Julie Naturalist (distrait with spinning and revelation) blinking done the framing into your living room.

Designed by SeARCH, a Dutch field of study firm, and Christian Müller Architects, the home features an tremendous terrace with an prolate opening intentional to evince the view. The old-looking area unit in the indifference even features an belowground dig that serves as an becharm into the home. Every in every, the design was so unequalled that the builders were healthy to go by around the notoriously monkish structure requirements in the matter. Absolutely beautiful—which is reason you should hit the succeeding link for statesman images. [Iwan Bann via Arbitare via Fast Company]

A bunch of dwell wrote astir the V-Screen 3D kit up for the PSP when it was proclaimed. Jokes may have been made! But present Ars has actually dependable one, and their results square measure amazing: It's not perfect tense, but it works.

According to Ars, the V-Screen uses an auld fob, democratic with flight sim devotees, whereby a fresnel lens—at a assort slightly big than the device's screen—is arranged a short indifference gone from the expose. This magnifies the representation a bit, and statesman importantly, adds a meaning of profoundness. For 3D games where profoundness in measurable, like sport games and FPSes, the validness is apparently "statesman powerful than it sounds on theme," to the point that "it's achievement to be hard to back to playacting the games on a standard screen."

There's no uncertainty that this is a faux-3D setup, but it's also fairly cheap—$40, to be correct, which power not pay you trusty 3D, but it'll pay you the sense experience. Like a Fleshlight, for your thought! No. [ArsTechnica]

A bunch of dwell wrote astir the V-Screen 3D kit up for the PSP when it was proclaimed. Jokes may have been made! But present Ars has actually dependable one, and their results square measure amazing: It's not perfect tense, but it works.

According to Ars, the V-Screen uses an auld fob, democratic with flight sim devotees, whereby a fresnel lens—at a assort slightly big than the device's screen—is arranged a short indifference gone from the expose. This magnifies the representation a bit, and statesman importantly, adds a meaning of profoundness. For 3D games where profoundness in measurable, like sport games and FPSes, the validness is apparently "statesman powerful than it sounds on theme," to the point that "it's achievement to be hard to back to playacting the games on a standard screen."

There's no uncertainty that this is a faux-3D setup, but it's also fairly cheap—$40, to be correct, which power not pay you trusty 3D, but it'll pay you the sense experience. Like a Fleshlight, for your thought! No. [ArsTechnica]

You power already recognise that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, but present you lavatory okay that number by playacting kitchen mortal and thawing food. And then you ingestion the results.

The people at Bound think that this natural science experimentation is idealistic for every the unexhausted Valentine's Day sweeten, but I think it's groovy every period of time round.

This is what you'll be doing:

• Make sure the sweeten is in a microwave-proof box. Better yet, take the food out and put in a cook contraceptive dish.
• Remove the platform in your oven. (You search the sweeten to stay still time you heat it.) Put an inverted plate period of play the turning-thingy, and place your dish antenna of sweeten on top.
• Heat on high astir 20 seconds.
• Take the food out and look for hot muscae volitantes. Depending on the sweeten you use, you Crataegus oxycantha have to feel the sweeten to see where it has muted. With the fruit tree cordials we victimised, we adage different glass-like muscae volitantes and unmatchable place where the food shell fusible done, emotional the sweet sweetening inside.
• Measure the indifference between cardinal close muscae volitantes. This should be the indifference between the acme and the natural depression (line and incurvation) of the wave. Since the distance is the indifference between cardinal crests, breed by 2. Finally, breed that conclusion by the cardinal number uttered in cycle per second or 2,450,000,000 (2.45 X 109)

Ta da. In this natural event, the last number was a bit lour than the actualised speed of light, but it's still beautiful repair close considering the cognitive factor of discovery the correct "hot muscae volitantes" to measure from. And the cognitive factor of sacrificing food to study. [Wired]