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3D Mirror: Release Your Inner Beast
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People have always had a fascination with the extraordinary: unicorns, fairy tales, dwarves, princesses, and magic mirrors. And somehow, the latter is slowly becoming a reality, although they’re not really magical in that sense.… |
February 1st, 2012
The Hundehiet Is Like a Storage Locker – for Your Dogs
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You’ve probably already seen those posters that warn you never …to leave your dog alone in your car. The outside temperature may rise, or it may fall, but when your dog (or cat) is locked inside, well – I don’t even want to imagine what might happen to them. You |
January 26th, 2012
Pig Buddies USB Drive for Nature Lovers
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We’ve seen plenty of USB drives, but this design is super cute if you like pigs. Funny thing, not everyone like pigs, but we all love bacon. Anyway, this concept USB design by Weplaygod is pretty neat and I don’t even like pigs.… |
January 7th, 2012
Hamster-Powered Submarine Doesn’t Fire Tiny Torpedoes (But it Should)
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I have to think all the way back to 2007′s hamster-powered paper shredder to the last time I wrote about a gadget which could run on rodent power. But much like the Flintstones,… I’ve always wanted more technology to operate on animal power. So I was happy to see that |
January 5th, 2012
Scientists Tickle Gorillas on Quest for Origins of Laughter
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Scientists are searching for the reasons why humans laugh, and are studying all sort of animals to figure out if other species laugh as well. It’s easy to imagine that gorillas and other monkeys would laugh when tickled, since they are some of the animals closest to humans. One zookeeper… |
January 1st, 2012
LEGO Bionicle Tiger Is on the Prowl
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When I was a kid, there was no such thing as LEGO Bionicle. Heck, I think we pretty much had square and rectangular bricks and the occasional yellow minifig with a construction hat. And while purists may thing that all the fancy parts available in today’s LEGO kits are “cheating,”… |
December 26th, 2011
Japanese and Russian Scientists Even Closer to Cloning a Wooly Mammoth
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Michael Crichton would be so proud right now. Scientists from Japan and Russia are all working together on a plan that they think might bring the long extinct wooly mammoth back to existence. According to the scientists, the mammoth went extinct about 10,000 years ago. In August, researchers found a… |
December 5th, 2011
Wappy Dog for Nintendo DS Hits Stores, Poop Bags Not Included
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It has been several months since we talked about the Nintendo DS game Wappy Dog. The game is now officially available to purchase just in time for holiday gift giving. If you have kid that wants a real pet, you might start them with this virtual pet simulation. Rather than… |
November 9th, 2011
HyQ Quadruped Robot Kicks, Trots and Rears Up
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If they create anymore quadruped robots, we are going to need to build some robotic zoos to house them. We have BigDog, AlphaDog and now HyQ. HyQ was developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), in Genoa. This hydraulic quadruped can do a bunch of new tricks.… |
October 31st, 2011
iPet Companion for People Who Can’t Bear to Leave Their Pets Alone
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When I first brought my Shih Tzu puppy home, I spent every waking moment I had feeding, training, and playing with her. Of course, I can only do that during the weekends, because I still have to go to work. A huge lump would form in my throat whenever I’d… |
October 10th, 2011
