Today, on International Woman’s Day, we’re very proud to be able to bring you a woman’s story of engineering, technology, innovation and invention solving an everyday problem.
In Kinshasa, capital of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, traffic congestion is a serious problem. Apparently, few drivers bother to obey signs, lights, or even human traffic directors. It was a snarled free-for-all. Until the robots showed up.
The Congolese engineer Isaie Therese designed and built two 8-foot-tall, classic Robbie the Robot-style automatons to take over traffic-directing duties from their human forebears, and apparently, the plan is working.
“As a motorcyclist I’m very happy with the robot’s work,” one commuter told CCTV Africa. ”Because when the traffic police control the cars here there’s still a lot of traffic. But since the robot arrived, we see truly that the commuters are respectful.”
click through for a video report on her achievement
Putting this up again for the evening crowd incase they missed it!
#afrofuturismisnow
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I forgot cosmosextips was less insane than actual Cosmo.
Just fuckin’ land on his penis.
this is like bad fanfic but in tutorial mode
One of my friends had a woman do this to him and now he can bend his dick completely in half while fully erect.
She was the last woman he ever slept with.
#Point is now he’s gay and like’s to bend his dick in half as a party trick.
I am so intrigued right now this entire post is insane and I am so confused
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Ōkunoshima (大久野島) is a small island located in the Inland Sea of Japan in the city of Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. It is accessible by ferry from Tadanoumi and Ōmishima. There are campsites, walking trails and places of historical interest on the island. It is often calledUsagi Jima (ウサギ島, “Rabbit Island”) because of the numerous feral rabbits that roam the island; they are rather tame and will approach humans. [1] [2]
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This taxidermy was found inside a late 19th-century French mansion which has been sealed up for more than 100 years. Via National Geographic.
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from left to right:
in 5 years, his cousin lenny, from the gay moon future, if he was the Postal Service instead, and Metalmore
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today’s discovery: there is an entire genre of youtube videos of rainbow dash from my little pony sleeping on peoples beds, and very specifically rainbow dash, every other pony has like maybe 2 videos but there are literal dozens of videos of rainbow dash sleeping on peoples beds
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cyphoria asked: lets make babies <3
figuratively… or like, seriously?
No dante. You. YOU must construct them. you must weave their muscle, string their sinew, sew their flesh and breathe their souls into life.
Celebrating 350 posts at hamsters-in-cups with an animated retrospective.
im actually laughing so hard at this
tHE GUY WITH THE CAMERA HAS THE PUREST CANADIAN ACCENT I’VE EVER HEARD OMFG
Canadians are weird
is that big girls dont cry playing in the background
As a Canadian, I can verify this
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psdo:
This is a real website where you enter a name and it generates a hypothetical penis, complete with dimensions and an elaborate nickname
I know what you think I’m putting in but I have actually not recovered from my bewilderment sufficiently to put in anything
This is the most immature thing I will ever reblog but this is also the hardest I’ve laughed all day.
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