I Shall Call Him, Mini-Nuke

Apparently, in five years’ time you could buy your very own miniature nuclear reactor thanks to Hyperion, a company based in New Mexico, USA. The diminutive power plants are only 6 meters in diameter and will be placed underground, encased in concrete. Hyperion’s CEO John Deal claims a Chernobyl-type scenario is impossible because there “are no moving parts”. What a bummer, just when I was planning to soak up some radiation and show up as the glowing version of The Joker for Halloween.

Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes | The Observer.



Bike Powered iPod Charger


Have you been dying to turn your bike into a mean, lean, iPod charging machine? Well Mark Hoekstra, a dedicated electronics tinkerer living in Holland, came up with just that. It may not be pretty, but it gets the job done. I’m thinking of something along similar lines, except my iPod charger would harness the excessively loud conversations of cell phone users that plague our streets.