Noah’s Ark of China, a six-ton (5,443 kg) ball container built by Chinese inventor Yang Zongfu, undergoes a rolling test in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on August 6, 2012. According to local media, Yang spent two years and 1.5 million RMB ($235,585 USD) to build this four-meter diameter vessel, which is capable of housing a three-person family with sufficient food for them to live in for 10 months. The vessel was designed to protect people inside from external heat, water and external impact. (Reuters/China DailyZhang Xuelin sits inside his self-made aircraft during its test flight in Jinan, on November 29, 2012. The plane, which took 11 months to build, failed in its test flight. (Reuters/China Daily)An ethnic Uighur man Abulajon drives his self-made giant motorcycle during a test in Manas county, Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, on April 27, 2013. Abulajon, a 30-year-old Uighur sewage treatment plant worker, spent a year making his 660 pound motorcycle measuring 4.3 meters (14 feet) in length and 2.4 meters (7.8 feet) tall, although it makes it impossible for him to drive it on the street. It cost him about 8,000 yuan ($1,300) to buy all the parts from salvage stations and the converted engine can power the motorcycle with a speed of 40 km per hour (24.8 miles per hour), local media reported. (Reuters/China Daily)Zhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on November 14, 2012. Zhang, a local farmer who is interested in scientific inventions, has independently made seven miniature submarines with several fellow engineers, one of which was sold to a businessman in Dalian at a price of 100,000 yuan ($15,855) in 2011. The submarines, mainly designed for harvesting aquatic products, such as sea cucumber, have a diving depth of 20-30 meters (66-98 feet), and can travel for 10 hours, local media reported.
Farmer Wu Yulu drives his rickshaw pulled by a his self-made walking robot near his home near Beijing, on January 8, 2009. (Reuters/Reinhard Krause83-year-old Zhang Yongqing shows off his invention, a combination of a wheelchair and foldable bicycle, outside a park in Beijing on March 19, 2010. Zhang said he invented the multifunctional bicycle so that care-givers can take better care of wheelchair-bound elderly people. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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