Domino off-road trailer transitions from travel to camp mode on the push of a button





Australian families are catching up to the idea of outdoor adventures with a bespoke camper trailer tagged behind their trucks. Designed for the outdoorsy Aussies, to accommodate an Australian outback, the Offline Campers’ dual-mode off-road camper trailer called the Domino is built on a similar bed as the company’s previous Raker model. The Domino is perfect for small family adventures owing to the trailer’s generous internal + extendable space and quick transition from a day ride to a comfy night sleeper.

Packed with almost everything your family would need on the road, the Offline Campers’ Domino is ruggedized and conceived in the shape of a teardrop trailer. That said, it has more to it than just being a random trailer. It is the brand’s first hard-roofed interior camper with jaw-like rear doors and dual-mode functionality. During the day, Domino rides in the travel mode, and by night, just open its jaws and instantly transport yourself onto the comfy queen-sized mattress (don’t forget to shut the jaws from within) in camp mode.

When you demand some extra space, the Domino allows you to deploy an electric-powered annex tent at the push of a button. Once deployed, it opens up additional two meters of space (with the support of a few tent poles) and still lets you access the bed and the storage underneath it without any hassle. The living space, complete with the installed extension, offers ample camping are for two adults and a child.

For all the camping fun on the road and at the park, the Domino has a slide-out kitchen complete with a flip-out countertop, three burner stove, cooking utensils, fridge, and a storage compartment on the side. Onboard the Domino is a 200Ah lithium battery, an inverter, and rooftop solar panels that support the annex tent’s transition and take care of the other power needs. Starting at AUD 64,400 ($50,000), Offline Campers’ Domino makes for one robust companion that you would want for a big, off-road family adventure!

Designer: Offline Campers

















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World Record Tallest Domino Tower Toppled

When I was a kid I used to love creating domino courses and watching them all fall in fun ways. I would never have the patience to do it today. Especially not anything as elaborate as what these people set up. This 20-foot-tall tower sat at the end of an array of over 100,000 dominoes.

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The structure was designed and built by the group Austrian Domino Art with some help from HLUW Yspertal students. It took five months of preparation and four days of setup – and it is all over in a few short minutes. They now hold the record for tallest domino structure.

Their domino tower itself consisted of 11,465 dominoes! It is super fun to watch the lead-up to the big fall, as they incorporated some really cool elements throughout their domino construction. Check it out:

[via Neatorama]

Vincent Van Dominogh’s Starry Night: Falling Skies

If there’s one painting that I’m obsessed about, it’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. If the iPad app wasn’t enough for you, check out FlippyCat’s project, that he aptly named Vincent Van Dominogh’s Starry Night. It kind of makes sense that he used dominoes because their movement seems to capture the movement of the wind in the painting.

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It took FlippyCat 11 hours and 7,067 dominoes to build his version of Starry Night. There was also a first failed attempt, which you can check out in the video below. The dominoes were stacked, arranged, and aligned in a three-dimensional configuration. Once initiated, the domino chain reaction caused all of the dominoes to fall in a cascade whose final result gives an even more impressionistic rendering of the painting.

If I had to build this, there would have been more than just one failed attempt!

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