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Instaprint Will Make Your Parties the #Coolest #Ever
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Instagram is one of the few apps on the market that revolutionized how people captured photos and shared images. What I love about the app are the effects and filters that give my images a unique look and feel when I’m ready to share them.… |
March 7th, 2012
Haptic Thumbstick Videogame Controller Renders Rumble Obsolete
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Videogames are very good at engaging our eyes and ears, but when it comes to touch we still have a long way to go. Force feedback is the gaming industry’s attempt to engage our sense of touch, but it’s limited at best. This prototype controller achieves improved tactile feedback through… |
March 7th, 2012
Parking Guide Chooses Your Parking Space for You
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It’s frustrating having to drive around a parking garage and have to around in circles just to find a spot. What makes it especially irritating is if you’re already running late.… |
March 6th, 2012
Twin Headphones: Sharing Your Tunes Has Never Been Easier
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Sharing your tunes with your friends is an important part of life, whether it’s through the paltry integrated speakers of your smartphone, device, or with something as ingenious as these twin speakers, which were designed by Roel Deden. They include an extra pair of ‘phones hiding in plain sight, allowing… |
March 5th, 2012
Digitar: Revolutionizing the Future of the Electric Guitar
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One of my favorite instruments is the guitar, although I never really learned how to play it all that well. I’m constantly fascinated with the people who do, however, and even more fascinated by people who have actually thought up ways to modernize the instrument.… |
March 5th, 2012
Green Manhole Cover Harnesses Kinetic Energy
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We see a lot of green concepts around here and while some of them seem pretty obvious, others clearly took more thought to come up with. The latest green concept is this manhole cover called the Fuel Cover and it certainly falls into that second category of things you need… |
March 4th, 2012
Robot Teaches Itself to Walk, Just Not Very Well
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I recently showed you a video in which a Gundam mech taught itself to walk using some sort of “genetic algorithm”. Around the same time, it turns out engineers have been giving real robots the tools they need to walk on their own.… |
March 3rd, 2012
Transition Flying Car to Be on Hand at New York Auto Show
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I don’t know if you remember the toys or the cartoon from back in the 1980s called MASK.… That was one my favorite shows and had a bunch of the toys that were cars, trucks, and motorcycles that turned into other things. My favorite was a motorcycle that turned into |
March 2nd, 2012
Speech Jamming Gun: Literal Silencer
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We may someday have a weapon that will safely and effectively combat noise. Called the SpeechJammer, the device uses a technique called Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) – it replays back the target’s speech with a slight delay. This messes with our brain and makes it difficult for us to continue… |
March 2nd, 2012
Urban Bug Farming for Some High Protein Insect Snacks
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Bugs of most types and all sizes make me queasy. The little ones, I don’t mind. But if they’re more than two centimeters long (or tall), then that’s enough to send me either screaming or running away from them – or both. So you can just imagine how I’d react… |
March 1st, 2012
