577
JAC Motors transport truck releasing Racing Homer pigeons for a pigeon race.
579
Anti-snail barrier on a tomato planter by @DIYPerks.
580
An active pinball bumper, also called a "pop bumper", "thumper bumper", "jet bumper", or "turbo bumper".
582
The silica glass fiber tiles on the Space Shuttle are such effective thermal insulators that they can be picked up straight out of a furnace. youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9Yax…
583
Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV-P7/A1) entering the water.
585
A Congreve clock or oscillating path rolling ball clock uses a rolling ball instead of a pendulum to regulate time.
586
The BionicOpter robotic dragonfly by Festo.
587
Closing the shading umbrellas at Medina Haram Piazza in Saudi Arabia.
588
Boarding the Tavastland ro-ro cargo ship from the ice in Hailuoto, Finland.
589
An unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket crashes after its booster engines shut down. The Proton-M does not have a Flight Termination System to self-destruct in air and prevent it from crashing into the ground.
591
An Erickson S-64 Skycrane dropping on the Shovel Fire in British Columbia, Canada via @collectiveheli.
592
A Mud Cat trash skimmer vessel cleaning Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
593
Restocking lake trout in Utah with aircraft, via @UtahDWR.
595
Building an arch with the Arch-Lock system by Lock-Block.
596
A boat with a @seakeeper gyroscopic stabilizer installed (left) versus one without (right).
597
A fully mechanical exoskeleton by @skeletonics.
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Expanding foam packing by mixing polymethylene polyphenyl isocyanate and polyurethane foam resin, by Sealed Air Corporation.
600
Tetsuta Nagashima of Idemitsu Honda Team Asia surfs his Kalex motorcycle as he wipes out at the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix.
Amazing feats of engineering. Tweeted by @kane and root.vc.