In the past decade tattoos have become more popular and accepted as compared to before. It is a costly affair and takes a long time to complete even a palm sized tattoo. But, there are always people who take their interest to a whole new level and want to stand out. The world has much place for them and fancies their interest! Here are 10 people who took their tattoo interest to an extreme that you cannot figure out what drove them and why, even if there is a justified reason.
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10. Face name tattoo
Apart from all the fully covered tattoos, Lesya Toumaniantz from Saransk, Russia took the wildest decision in the tattoo world. Lesya agreed to tattoo the name of Ruslan Toumaniantz, the man she met only 24 hours back. This was a blind step without the certainty of their relationship in the future. The tattoo read RUSLAN in calligraphy across her face in thick bug letters. However, they now plan on getting married to each other, which saves her face from the laser.
9. Isobel Varley
Isobel Varley From Yorkshire, United Kingdom held the Gunnies World Record for the most tattooed senior. In the year 2000, she was named as the world’s most tattooed senior woman. In 10 years, Varley got over 200 designs inked on 76% of her body. Contradicting to how it may seem, it’s not just men who take it to extremes, and it takes a lot more strength to withstand the pain.
8. Zebra man
Horace Ridler was a professional freakshow and sideshow performer calling himself The Great Omi or The Zebra Man. Ridler left behind a wonderful story of his journey through the world wars to the performance phase in the later part of his life.
7. Julia Gnuse
Julia Gnuse from California is commonly known as the illustrated lady. She holds the Gunnies World Record for the world’s most tattooed women. Julia was one of the victims of porphyria. Her doctors suggested her pale skin tone color tattoos as they prevent blistering, which did not work out. But, ultimately she resorted to covering herself with colorful tattoos with things that she likes and cherishes.
6. Lizard man
Erik Sprague also known as The Lizard Man is a freak show and side show performer from Texas, who now performs all around the world. He had his lips dyed to green, teeth sharpened like fangs, stretched his earlobes and was the first person to split his tongue in two. All of his tattoos took around 700 hours of work and were worth his freak lifestyle.
5. Zombie Boy
Rick Genest is a Canadian actor, artist and model who is also known as Zombie Boy for his corpse body tattoo. He mentioned that “The closest thing I could get to becoming a zombie was to get tattooed like one.” Rick spent over $16,000 for his tattoos and now build for himself a brand and established a reputation in his field of interest, freak shows.
4. Tom Leopard – Leopard Man
Tom Woodbridge the tattoo fanatic is an English-born former soldier. He is also known as Tom Leopard- the Leopard Man. Before Luck Diamond Rich, Tom set the record for the world’s most tattooed man, and he spent £5,500 to ink himself like the cat. The Leopard Man is now 79 years and has been staying away from society for years.
3. The Enigma
Paul Lawrence is an American actor and performer, also known as the Enigma. Paul has a unique full body jigsaw puzzle tattoo design along with ear reshaping and horn implants. This became a very popular tattoo design and is found in many galleries. More than 200 tattoo artists worked on the Enigmas body, and he still seems to be counting.
2. Etienne Dumont
Etienne Dumont from Geneva is another tattoo fanatic who is completely covered with tattoos all over his body. Added to the extreme tattoo level, he also has plexiglass piercings under his lower lip and on the nose; titanium rings on both his hands, rings of 70mm diameter on his ears and two silicon implants as horns on his head which he plans to grow bigger by replacing them with bigger ones.
1. Lucky Diamond Rich
Lucky is the world’s most tattooed man. He holds a Gunnies Record for being 100% tattooed, even inside his foreskin, ears and mouth. This astonishing tattoo passion made him spend over 1000 hours with hundreds of artists to get his tattoo done.
Garford-Putilov armoured cars were a type of armoured fighting vehicle produced in Russia during the First World War era. Although considered to be a rugged and reliable machine by its users, the Garford-Putilov was severely underpowered. With a total weight of about 11 tons, and only a 30 hp engine, the vehicles had a top speed of approximately 10–11 mph (16–18 km/h). The design was also overloaded (top-heavy), and therefore had very limited off-road capability.
9. Ehrhardt E-V/4
The E-V/4 Panzerkraftwagen Ehrhardt was one of the first examples of a type of high and flatsided armoured car design that the Germans used almost until the start of the Second World War for internal policing duties. It weighed nearly 9 tons, had a crew of eight or nine, and carried an armament of up to three machine-guns.
8. Austin Armoured Car
Austin Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced during the First World War. The vehicle is best known for its employment by the Russian Army in the First World War and by different forces in the Russian Civil War.
7. Büssing A5P
The Bussing A5P was an armoured car produced in Germany during World War I. The production of A5P began in 1916 and produced in limited numbers. Its power plant was Bussing’s successful 6-cylinder truck engines. It had a large steel armoured body and was crewed by 10 men. 6 of the crew operated three 7.92 mm machine guns, usually the MG 08 or MG 15 nA. Some vehicles even received two 20 mm cannon. The A5P served on the Eastern Front until 1917.
6. Jeffery Armored Car
The Jeffery Armored Car was developed by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915. The car No.1 was used in by General John Pershing’s 1916 Pancho Villa Expedition in Columbus, New Mexico for training. Pancho Villa was far into Mexico at that time and there are no records on its use in fighting.
5. Lanchester
The Lanchester Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced during the First World War. In 1914, the Lanchester was the second most numerous armoured car in service after the Rolls-Royce. It was originally designed to support air bases and retrieve downed pilots.
5. Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, 1914
This British armoured car developed in 1914 and used in World War I and in the early part of World War II. Rolls-Royce, in the war served on several fronts of the Middle Eastern theatre. The vehicle was modernized in 1920 and in 1924, resulting in the Rolls-Royce 1920 Pattern and Rolls-Royce 1924 Pattern. In 1940, 34 vehicles which served in Egypt with the 11th Hussars regiment had the “old” turret replaced with an open-topped unit carrying a Boys anti-tank rifle, .303-inch Bren machine gun and smoke-grenade launchers.
4. Charron, Girardot et Voigt, 1902
The Charron, Girardot et Voigt 1902 was a French armoured car, designed by the Georgian engineer Mikheil Nakashidze in 1902. It was equipped with a Hotchkiss machine gun, and with 7 mm armour for the gunner, with a road speed of 50km/hour.
3. Davidson Automobile Battery Armored Car
The Davidson Automobile Battery armored car was built by Royal Page Davidson and the cadets of the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Highland Park, Illinois. Davidson designed this vehicle in 1901. He and his students at the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy built two of these partially armored military vehicles. They were armed with Colt .30 caliber machine guns. The vehicles were powered by a tubular steam boiler. They had difficulty in going up hills because of changes of the water level in the boiler. Davidson made these lightly armored military vehicles of one thousand pounds at the Academy campus in Highland Park, Illinois.
2. Motor War Car, 1899
Motor War Car was the world’s first real armoured car. It was designed and built by British inventor F.R. Simms in 1899. The vehicle had Vickers armour 6 mm thick and was powered by a four-cylinder 3.3-litre 16 hp Cannstatt Daimler engine giving it a maximum speed of around 14.5 km/h.
1. Armored Quadricycle, 1898
Quadricycle was the first armed petrol engine powered vehicle ever built. It was designed and built by British inventor F.R. Simms in 1898. He constructed the vehicle by mounting a Maxim machine gun on the front wheels bar of a De Dion-Bouton quadricycle. He also put an iron shield in front of the car for the driver’s protection. The driver also operated the machine gun. >> Top 10 Unusual Weapons of Ancient Times.
Rhino, was an armoured car designed in Australia during the Second World War. Due to enemy action and design problems the project never got beyond a prototype stage. The vehicle was completed by a welded turret with 30 mm all-round protection similar in design to that of the Crusader tank. The armament consisted of a QF 2 pounder Mk IX gun and a coaxial .303-inch Vickers machine gun.
2. Fox Armoured Car
The Fox Armoured Car was a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle produced by Canada in the Second World War. Built by General Motors, Canada, based on the British Humber Armoured Car hull on a CMP chassis. The turret was manually traversed and fitted with 0.303 and 050 in machine guns. The four man crew consisted of the vehicle commander, the driver, a gunner and a wireless operator. 1506 vehicles were manufactured.
3. Humber LRC Mk IIIA
The Humber Light Reconnaissance Car, also known as Humberette or Ironside, was a British armoured car produced during the Second World War. The car based on the Humber Super Snipe chassis (as was the 4×4 Humber Heavy Utility car). It was equipped with a No. 19 radio set. From 1940 to 1943 over 3600 units were built.
4. Canadian GM Mark I
Also known as Otter Light Reconnaissance Car, was a light armoured car produced by Canada during the Second World War for British and Commonwealth. The Otter was based on the Chevrolet C15 Canadian Military Pattern truck chassis and used many standard GM components. The armament consisted of a hull-mounted Boys anti-tank rifle and a Bren light machine gun in a small open-topped turret. Although it used a more powerful engine than the Humber, it was larger and heavier (by a ton); overall performance was less than the Humber.
5. BA-64
The BA-64 was a 4×4 light armoured car, employed by the Soviet Army from 1942 into the early 1960s for reconnaissance and liaison tasks. The BA-64B was nicknamed ‘Bobik’ by its crews. The total recorded number of BA-64s produced differs even in Russian sources. The most frequently-stated figures are 9,110 vehicles which were built in the GAZ automobile plant.
6. Standard Beaverette
Standard Car 4×2, or Car Armoured Light Standard, better known as the Beaverette, was a British armoured car produced during World War II.
7. S1 Scout Car
This armoured car produced in Australia for the US Army during the Second World War. The vehicle was based on a Ford F15 4×2 chassis (a single 4×4 vehicle was built). The open-topped armoured hull was similar to that of the M3 Scout Car. The armament consisted of one .50 inch heavy machine gun and two .30 inch machine guns on skate rails, operated by the crew of five.
8. C15TA Armoured Truck
The C15TA Armoured Truck was an armoured load carrier produced by Canada during the Second World War. It was developed from the Otter Light Reconnaissance Car by General Motors Canada along a concept lines of the American M3 Scout Car. The vehicle used the chassis of the Chevrolet C15 Canadian Military Pattern truck design.
9. 39M Csaba
The 39M Csaba was an armoured scout car produced for the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II. The vehicle had a 20 mm cannon and an 8 mm machine gun fixed on a centrally mounted turret, with 9 mm armoured plating. The vehicle was also equipped with a detachable 8 mm light machine gun fired through the rear hatch in the anti-aircraft role. The crew could dismount and carry this MG when conducting reconnaissance on foot. It also had two driving positions – one at the front as normal, and an additional one at the rear.
10. T27 Armored Car
The T27 Armored Car was a prototype armored car developed for the US Army in 1944 by the Studebaker Corporation. The T27 was an eight wheeled vehicle, with the 1st, 2nd and 4th pairs of wheels being powered. With a crew of four, the T27 was armed with two .30 caliber machine guns and a 37 mm cannon. Powered by a Cadillac gasoline 8-cylinder engine, two T27’s were produced in 1944.
The Cadillac SRX is just one of many new vehicles to offer air-conditioned seats.
The standard model for air-conditioned seats was developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This technology enables one to cool down the entire body of the car seats, such as the driver’s as well as the passenger seats. The fabric used on the air-conditioned seat is porous mesh to allow the air flow through it, whereas multiple fans inside the seat produce refrigerated air circulation. The porous covering of the seat allows body’s natural cooling system to work even when sitting down and keeps cool by circulating air across skin while the moving air carries body’s heat away. Mercedes-Benz has also developed exclusive hot stone massage bucket seats for their 2014 S-Class which operates through 14 tiny air bags that inflate and deflate to stimulate the occupant’s backside.
9. Traffic Signs Recognition
Cutting Edge Technologies Soon to be used in Cars.
Some of the high-end cars by Audi and Mercedes-Benz use front-facing cameras to identify road signs such as “Speed limit” or “School Ahead” or “Turn Right/Left”. The car can induct the speed limit right in the middle of the information cluster while combining the captured information from road signs with the data contained in the navigation systems. In cooperation by MobilEye and Continental AG, the first TSR systems which recognize speed limits were developed. It was then incorporated for the first time in the redesigned BMW 7-Series, followed by Mercedes-Benz S-Class in late 2008 which can detect the round speed limit signs all across Europe. The TSR also has an additional advantage of being able to support navigation systems with the detection of overhead LED based variable speed limit signs.
8. Night Vision with Pedestrian Detection
Cutting Edge Technologies Soon to be Used in Cars.
Cadillac first offered night vision in vehicles in 2000. An updated version of the night vision technology by Mercedes called Night View Assist Plus has been available in the S-Class since 2005. In the more recent version of this technology which is already offered in the 2010 E-Class, the new system will pinpoints pedestrians and highlight them on the dashboard display. BMW has a similar technology with a pedestrian identifier that also shows the moving direction of the pedestrian. Volvo has developed a combination of technologies which can identify pedestrians and cyclists, thus allowing avoidance of collisions in urban areas. The modern night vision systems detect infrared light or amplify the available light to detect objects out of range of the main headlights.
7. Augmented Reality Dashboards
Cutting Edge Technologies Soon to be Used in Cars.
Display Screen on the windshield is already designed for many high-end cars. In the coming days, cars will be able to identify external objects in front of the driver and display information on the windshield about them. BMW has already implemented windshield displays in some of their vehicles which display basic information of the identified object, and now, they are also developing an augmented reality dashboard that will be able to recognize the distance from the object. This system will also display a red box in the windshield showing how to maneuver into the next lane before the collision if any other car approaches towards it. BMW recently projected a video where they uses AR glasses to look at the engine for identifying the parts need to be replaced and then also shows step-by-step instructions on how to fix it.
6. Intelligent Headlights
High-beam LED lights that detect oncoming vehicles and prevent the high beams from causing glare is already incorporated in many cars such as Mercedes, Audi and Mazda. This technology is capable of shading the precise areas of the headlight that would cause the other driver to experience glare when the system detects another vehicle coming from the opposite direction. On the other hand, active cornering headlight system processes the computerized data from speed and steering angles and swivels the main beams accordingly. This feature will illuminate the road in front of the vehicle while traditional headlights tend to illuminate the side of the road when turning. Audi and BMW are also racing to be the first carmakers to offer laser lights instead of traditional LED in a production car.
5. Adaptive Cruise Control
Cruise control in Modern cars is more than just maintaining a constant speed. With the help of Adaptive cruise control, the car itself will be able to turn the steering. This technology uses sensor and radar systems to adjust the steering and the throttle of the car with changing traffic flow or road without any cooperative support from other vehicles like V2V connectivity. The control is imposed based on sensor information from on-board sensors only. Mitsubishi was the first automaker to offer a laser-based ACC system marketed as “Preview Distance Control” in 1995 on the Japanese version of Diamante. Acura first introduced Adaptive Cruise Control integrated with a Collision Mitigation Braking System in the late 2005 in the United States.
4. Intelligent Braking System
With this technology, the brakes of the future cars will be automatically engaged without any driver input to prevent possible collisions, while the Brake-Operated Pre-crash Seatbelts will help to mitigate injuries. The vehicle itself will assists the driver’s braking action according to the situation, whereas this system will also deliver a warning buzz to prompt action by the driver to help avoiding a rear-end collision. This system depends on cross feed input from different sensors, radars, video cameras, ultrasonic emitters and even modern GPS technology. This system can prevent or lessen the impact in 1.9 million crashes a year according to The IIHS. Acura’s new RLX sedan already features a “Brake Hold” button that will keep the brakes pressed automatically.
3. V2V Connectivity
Future cars will communicate with each other with Vehicle to Vehicle connectivity and share information such as distance between the cars, speed and direction. It works by using wireless signals to send information between cars. MIT engineers are working on V2V algorithms that calculate information from surrounding cars to determine the best evasive measure if another car started coming into its projected path which will dramatically increase automotive safety. Ford is currently developing an intelligent vehicle system that uses advanced Wi-Fi technology to communicate with each other. In the first run of this prototype, in Ann Michigan’s Arbor, almost 3,000 automobiles equipped with prototype V2V devices have been tested.
2. Advanced Automotive Cameras
Sophisticated front camera systems will be a must-have feature for the soon-to-be-released cars as rearview cameras has already become standard equipment for mega-toys these days. According to the rules by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, all light passenger vehicles would require to have rear view cameras by the end of 2014. Intelligent front cameras such as Cross-path cameras are already incorporated in few cars from Ford, Chrysler and BMW, which show a 180-degree view from the front of the vehicle and alert the driver if another car is approaching towards it. In the latest addition, Around View monitor designed by Infiniti enables a 360-degree live view while using a computer mechanism to mix four camera feeds. Infiniti’s Around View is already available on BMW’s 5 and 7 series in a $2,500 optional package.
1. Self-Driving
Cars will be driven on their own in the near future as this system is already innovated under Google Self-Driving Car project. This project was led by Google engineer, Sebastian Thrun, who is also the co-inventor of Google Street View and former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The first autonomous car, a Toyota Prius modified with Google’s experimental driver-less technology was registered in April 2012 under Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles after the Nevada law for self-driving cars went into effect on March 1, 2012. Florida became the second state to allow the testing of independent vehicles on public roads while California became the third. Google has already presented the latest prototype of their driver-less car that had neither steering wheel nor pedals on May 28, 2014.
By 2040, half of all new cars coming off the production line will be hybrids with energy-storing body panels according to Exxon Mobil. A group of nine auto manufacturers in Europe is currently researching body panels made of polymer fiber and carbon resin that can store energy and charge faster than conventional batteries. According to Volvo, these panels could reduce a car’s weight by up to 15 percent.
