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This Guy Has Been Driving Backwards for the Last 11 Years

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST

Indian taxi driver Harpreet Dev is well-known in his hometown of Bhatinda, Punjab, for his amazing reverse driving skills. The 30-year-old has been driving his cab in reverse for the past 11 years. Harpreet is so used to it now that he says he doesn't trust himself to drive forwards anymore! He even has a special government license that allows him to drive backwards in any state in the northern part of India.

Harpreet's passion for reverse driving started in 2003, when his faithful Fiat Padmini  got stuck in reverse gear late one night. "I was outside the city, I had no money, so I thought of driving the car backwards until Bhatinda," he said. "Then I drove backwards and later on I gained confidence."

That's when he realised that he was really on to something, so the next morning he painted the words 'Back Gear Champion' on the side of the car and redesigned its gearbox to have four reverse gears and only one forward.

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Dutch Architect Turns Fictional Bridges on Euro Bills into a Reality

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 01:36 AM PST

When Austrian designer Robert Kalina came up with the design for Euro banknotes in 2002, he deliberately created fictional bridges that represent European architecture in general. The bridges can be recognised as having originated in various periods of European history, such as the Roman period, the Gothic period, the Renaissance, and contemporary 20th century architecture. This was supposed to be a good way to keep things generic and not favor any particular member country in the EU.

But with his latest stunt, Dutch architect Robin Stam has turned the idea on its head. "The European Bank didn't want to use real bridges so I thought it would be funny to claim the bridges and make them real," he explained. So he went and built all the bridges exactly as seen on the paper money, according to color and scale

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Student Creates Bizarre Jewelry That Hooks into Your Veins and Turns Blood Flow into Electricity

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 12:29 AM PST

If you think squeezing your feet into an uncomfortable pair of heels is painful, then Israeli jewelry designer Naomi Kizhner’s hardcore jewelry is probably not for you. Her innovative pieces are meant to be inserted into the wearer's veins, harnessing kinetic power from the body's involuntary movements to produce electricity.

The collection, named 'Energy Addicts', features invasive pieces of gold jewelry that have golden spikes at each end, which are inserted into the wearer's veins in two places. The continuous flow of blood turns the golden wheel inside the design, eventually creating sufficient kinetic energy to produce electricity that is sufficient to light up an LED and soon maybe even charge mobile devices.

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