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Wind Powered Walking Machines

Posted by michael on from the strandbeest dept.

MyDixieWrecked writes "PopularScience has an interesting article about some wind powered machines. The creator is working on a new design that will be able to store the power from the wind to keep up momentum even after the wind stops." The creator's website has some more pictures and video.

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  1. Wow... by The+J+Kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gives a whole new meaning to 'being blown off you feet' !

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  2. watching where you stand by jkcity · · Score: 2, Funny

    so not only will I have to look out making sure I don't stand on jelly fish at the beach I will have to make sure I don't stand on this stuff as well, could get a nasty splinter.

  3. AT-AT machine? by schtum · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if he could just add a cockpit and a steering mechanism to this thing, it would be pretty bad ass. Oh, and some laser cannons.

  4. I had such a machine once... by silence535 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... but it's gone with the wind.

    *duck*

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  5. Imagine... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine one of these contraptions lumbering towards you when you're getting a tan on the beach! Even better, imagine a cluster of... nah.

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  6. Dutch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope more countries would allow their citizens to smoke pot (they're allowed to drink and smoke anyway) like the Dutch. We would have more outlandish ideas and more wonderful realizations of the most implementable outlandish ideas (such as this one).

  7. Re:23MB QuickTime Movie of one of them.... by ath0mic · · Score: 2, Funny


    My favourite quote: They don't have to eat because they get their energy from the wind.

    Yah, that and they're mechanical objects.

  8. 'What giants?' asked Sancho Panza. by Speare · · Score: 3, Funny

    'What giants?' asked Sancho Panza.

    'Those you see there,' replied his master, 'with their long arms. Some giants have them about six miles long.'

    'Take care, your worship,' said Sancho; 'those things over there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails, which are whirled round in the wind and make the millstone turn.'

    'It is quite clear,' replied Don Quixote, 'that you are not experience in this matter of adventures. They are giants, and if you are afraid, go away and say your prayers, whilst I advance and engage them in fierce and unequal battle.'

    --Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 8

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  9. What happens by The+Kow · · Score: 2, Funny

    when they get blown over in heavy winds?

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