These amazing pictures were captured from a High Altitude Balloon’s 2 hour trip up to 85,945 feet.  The balloon was equipped with 2 cameras, one that pointed down and the other focused on the horizon.  Kodak color print film was used and captured 72 minutes of the flight. The pictures below are shown in ascending order.

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Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up company is reportedly working on an electric car that can accelerate from zero to sixty mph in four seconds and handles like a high end sports car.  The car runs completely on electricity and has a range of 250 miles.  The interesting thing about this car is even though it has the performance of a gas guzzling sports car it would probably be more clean than the electric hybrid cars out today which still relay somewhat on gasoline. Obviously a car like this won’t be cheap and Telsa even admits that.  They say - "once the technology is established, it will lead to less-expensive cars for the ordinary driver."   That tends to hold true with cars today, most of the new technology we see in ordinary cars originated in a concept car or high end sports car.  You can read more over at CNET

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Check out this pirated snakes on a plane trailer filled with snakes, and yes a plane, and also SAMUEL L. JACKSON. Watch it below…
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We’ve all wanted to become a super hero sometime in our lives, and with this tutorial and maybe a bit of radiation now you can.  This website walks you through creating a  "Thing" costume from the Fantastic Four using real rocks.  If you don’t have super powers however you will probably just scare people.   Check it out..

Toms Hardware has a written probably the most comprehensive and detailed article yet on Windows Vista.  In 500 hours they explored almost every aspect of the new operating system. They conclude "Microsoft’s new Vista is surprisingly entertaining. The new look of the operating system is good, and lets it outshine its Linux and Mac OS competitors. One notices repeatedly while working with this software that Microsoft scoped out its competition very carefully."  You can read it over at Toms Hardware.

Check out this sweet motorized skateboard.  Developed by an Australian based company, the Wheelman can cruise around at up to 19mph and is powered by a two-stroke engine and can hold up to 1.5 litres of fuel.  It can even go off-roading however you probably want to wear some pads if you decide to go down mountains with it.  Check it out over at the Wheelman website, via OhGizmo

Well its finally Memorial Day weekend, which means tomorrow we will be heading to the beach to soak in some much needed sun. Memorial Day weekend also marks the beginning of the summer, and the end of May. Just in case you missed a few, here is a list we’ve compiled of the five most popular articles on Infinity Labs this month.

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Volkswagen’s Automated 20-Story Garage
Mitsubishi’s Ipod Car
30 Foot Tall Robot Elephant
15″ Ferrari Red MacBook Pro

Infinity Labs opened at the beginning of May and so far the response has been far greater than we could have ever anticipated. We want to thank all of our visitors for making our first month so successful. Expect some new features in June, we are currently working on a cool avatar feature for posts as well as a user profile and a user posts submissions feature. Stay tuned.

If you happen to own a Mercedes-Benz SL55 and have about $108,000 to spend you can get it completely pimped out by Henrik Fisker. The Fisker Tramonto is an enhanced version of the SL55. To create it carbon fiber body panels are installed to replace the stock ones and a fighter jet-inspired grille as well as LED’s are installed on the front. The engine also gets some love and the horsepower is increased to 600hp. Xzibit could only dream of pimping out a car like this. Discovery via

Check out Apples new store being built on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York. The Glass Cube entrance way which appears to have been inspired by the Louvre Museum in France was unveiled yesterday. The new 10,000-sqaure-foot Apple store will be open 24/7 365 days a year. Hopefully no one decides to throw a brick… Read more via News.com