Prag Tram On Tires
Beginning of July I noticed a highly unusual streetcar close to Prague’s Strossmayerovo square. It was a bit shorter than usual, audibly powered by a combustion engine and – most notably – it was...
Category: Gadgetry
Theft Protection For Your Car
This looks very much like a basic anti-theft device: Simply fasten the car body to the street. (seen in Palmovka)
Prague TV Tower Is Actually A Rocket
This video is already three years old but currently going viral again in social media: The Prague TV tower in Žižkov is “on the run”, launched into space. Best watched in full screen!
The Star Wars Robot R2-D2 in Prague
If you are a Star Wars fan and live in Prague, you probably don’t want to miss this: Unknown street artists have turned a bomb shelter in the park Folimanka into the robot R2-D2...
The Café Where Your Drinks Come on a Hand Hoist
This weird thing is not directly situated in Prague. Count with a 35- to 60-minute bus or train ride out of town. But it’s worth it. Chances are that you have never seen anything...
Airborne and on the road to Prague
This is probably one of the coolest ways how to travel to Prague: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmcwmsXox4 EDIT: The original video stopped working. The trip started in Přerov and ended on Prague’s central Wenceslas Square. This unusual...
Trifot: Orwellian Robot Spies on Passers-by
A giant robot named “Trifot” stands just outside Nové Butovice metro station. The eyeballs are moving around, apparently watching people as they walk by. Six monitors display the images caught by the cameras. This...
Wooden Zeppelin Over DOX
The DOX gallery has completed yet another crazy project: Gulliver. Perhaps you remember the red skull rotating over the roof? Now you find there a huge Zeppelin that looks really impressive, like stranded on...
Open Surveillance Cameras in Prague
The project Insecam collects the streams of surveillance cameras, among them live cameras in Prague. These images are publicly available without any hacking, since their owners put them online and chose (or forgot) to...
A Robot With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This is probably one of the world’s least useful robots: A machine that sorts 7,000 stones by type and age. The classification is based on the dominant color, the color composition, and histograms of...
Reverse Sightseeing Tour on a Lubricating Tram
What to do this weekend… How about a “reverse” sightseeing tour through Prague in your living room chair, watching the streets from Prague’s Lubricating Tram. That special train runs every day about 200 km...
Prague’s Poetry Jukebox
Prague has now a “Poeziomat” – an automat for poetry. You can find it at the square Náměstí míru and it recites Czech poetry for free. One of the authors, Ondřej Kobza,...
The Cross Club Clockworks
The phantastic clockworks outside the Cross Club in Prague Holešovice have fascinated me from the first moment I saw them. You probably know the rotating lights when you have ever passed at night. I...
Dished Up
An extraterrestrial object on a roof in Prague, by Jakub Geltner. EDIT: The item at Prague Veletržní palác (back side):
