Basically, 1.21 Jigawatts wired an enormous wooden hamster wheel into a wireless network and gave it its own phone number. And a remote control, of course.Ĭreation: A spinning see-saw that lifts riders 12 feet in the air, while an accelerometer waits for the perfect moment to trigger an attached Polaroid camera, ultimately grabbing amusement-park-style candids of the riders’ faces.Ĭreation: Alright, this one’s a bit more difficult to explain.

Strawberry daiquiris anyone?Ĭreation: A robot called “The Amazing Cyclo.” Think Johnny 5, but as a puppet, with an LCD face and a single wheel made of shoes for a foot.

It would be almost stupid to try and describe what we saw there without images:Ĭreation: A clay-powered mobile pod with suspended electricity-generating swing set.Ĭreation: A steam-powered off-road trolley car, with a nice bronze-style finish.Ĭreation: A hacked up shopping cart that does its own hardcore poppa-wheelies, fittingly named the Wheelie Mobile.Ĭreation: A electric hybrid tricycle fitted with a dryer that also works as a humongous blender. From spinning see-saws to a “WPV” (wedgie-powered vehicle), imagination was certainly not lacking at McCarren Park in Brooklyn yesterday. This year, it was “Energy In Motion,” and that’s exactly what we saw there. In a nutshell, Red Bull throws out a secret theme at the very beginning of the weekend and teams are asked to create gizmos and gadgets that exemplify that theme, all in a matter of 72 hours. Red Bull gives you wings, right? Well, apparently it also gives 16 teams the energy necessary to build brand new and quite random inventions as a part of Red Bull’s annual Red Bull Creation event.

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