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Night Vision Scope From Scavenged Parts
Caydel writes "Greg Miller appears to have built a Night Vision Scope out of an image intensifier tube, and parts he found mostly in dumpsters. Also on Greg's site: Flyback transformers, coil guns, plasma globes and Tesla coils made from dumpster materials." You get the feeling he's not also writing product safety manuals on the side.
But can it see through clothes?
This guy is one mullet and a bra-strap-propelled rocket away from his own 80's series.
You would of at least thought they would have the decency to throw in a few example pictures taken on the Tokyo subway! Come on, don't tempt us lonely geeks like that on the day after Valentines!
Monstar L
because the department of homeland security will be knocking on his door pronto.
Excuse mr, you have just won a free vacation to the beautiful island of Cuba. do not bother to pack your stuff. everything has been arranged for you.
after that they have to start watching landfills and monitoring scavengers's behavior. "Excuse mr hobo, where do you think you are going with that rusted coathanger? not planing an attach on the pentagon, are we?"
Paris Hilton was said to be very interested in this device.
Hang on, thats not news is it.
liqbase
Cost $27 for the image intensifier, and $5 each for several trips to the laundromat after dumpster diving.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Armed with the night vision scope and shopping cart, we can make those nightly dumpster scavenging rounds really fruitful.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Very few people on the Tokyo Subway wear dark bikinis. Surprising as it may seem.
the neighbours will be leaching your juice, otherwise.
Image intesifier: $27
Cost of multiple trips to the laundromat after dumpster diving: $35
Being able to see in the dark after 3,000 volt electric shock: priceless.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Try playing around with the space/time continuum:
The Resonant Gravity Field Coil!
I wanna see some nutball actually try to build one, just to see what would happen. I'm guessing a large fire...
Wanted: One witty yet thought provoking
Where can I find these dumpsters full of electronic treasure!? I consider myself lucky if the dumpsters I'm thrown into don't have shards of glass or used needles.
but is there actually any use for Tesla coils in one's own home.
In case some wise-ass tries to send prism tanks after you.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
which is a good point. When I saw this article, I was thinking he went into his neighbors' trash bins and found stuff (like a discarded tv, etc.) Finding some of these components requires to a higher grade of trash.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
Didn't ol' Doc Brown sell the Libyans a bomb casing filled with pinball machine parts and keep the uranium to power his time machine?
Come on, now....