Archive for August 2011
Creative Outlets
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The household outlet. It’s about the most mundane looking thing in your home. But it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to these fun stickers, your outlets can finally have some personality.… |
August 20th, 2011
Researchers Implant Glowing Sensor to Detect Blood Sugar in Mouse
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First off, no that isn’t some sort of deformed penis with the world’s tiniest testicles in the photo below. Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s a bald mouse that a team of researchers from Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo are using as a test… |
August 20th, 2011
Squirt Umbrellas Collect Rain for Water Gun Chaos
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You probably never thought that you’d go back to playing in the rain again, now that you’re an adult. Designer Alex Woolley, however, has other plans. Fun plans.… |
August 20th, 2011
Print A Forest: 100 Documents = 1 Tree
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A lot of offices are going paperless to show that they’re trying to be more green (the good, environmental kind) and eco-friendly. However, there are still many instances where physical copies of documents are still required. |
August 20th, 2011
Han Solo Carbonite Business Card Case: Perfect if You Work in Cryogenics
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If I could freeze whatever I wanted in carbonite, I’d do it, just because it would look cool. Sure, it might be unpleasant for the freezing victim, but Han Solo didn’t seem any worse for wear between Episode V and Episode VI.… |
August 19th, 2011
LEGO Milling Machine Carves Floral Foam into 3D Shapes
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I have seen all sorts of stuff made from LEGO, and much of it is really cool. I particularly like it when someone builds mechanical things out of LEGO that actually do something like the dude that made the LEGO shirt folding robot. A guy named Arthur Sacek has made… |
August 19th, 2011
Microsoft Shows Off Patty, the Surface Testing Robot
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I have long though that it would be awesome to have my own Microsoft Surface 2.0 table in my home. What I have never really thought about was how Microsoft tests the Surface 2.0 device to be sure that it will stand up to the test of time and lots… |
August 19th, 2011
Russia’s Orbital Technologies Wants to Put Space Hotel into Orbit by 2016
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We have heard about space hotels before and so far, none of them have come to be. Back in 2009, we talked about one space hotel that was supposed to launch in 2012 but never got off the ground. Now, a Russian company called Orbital Technologies is talking about its… |
August 19th, 2011
Gresso Extreme X3 Mobile Phone is SERIOUSLY Rugged
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When some companies say rugged you have to read the fine print to see just how rugged the device is. For instance, many rugged smartphones are only water resistant for a few minutes or can only resist a spill. Others will break if you drop them from a few feet… |
August 19th, 2011
New Wii Cuts Price, Loses Gamecube Support, Makes Yoshi Spit Apples
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The Wii has remained unaltered for five years, (well, the dust collecting on mine gets thicker everyday) but now Nintendo is getting ready to launch a new version of the console.… |
August 19th, 2011
