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Bloon Balloon: A New Way to Get Into Orbit

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I was pretty disappointed that when NASA’s space shuttle program (STS) was shut down, they didn’t have a replacement ready to go. The replacement was actually canceled last October due to budgetary constraints. Nevertheless, check out this ingenious way to get into space, using a balloon instead of a rocket,…

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August 17th, 2011 by: Range

Ziiiro Aurora & Orbit Watches: It’s Color-Mixing Time!

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Watch brand Ziiiro has come up with two new watches use an analog mechanism to display time in a visually-striking way. This time around, we have the Aurora and the Orbit. Of the two, the Aurora looks most interesting since it mixes two colors to show the time.…

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April 19th, 2011 by: Range

Robots Build Smaller Versions of Themselves, Ad Infinitum

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Someone called ScreamyGuy built this fractal scene of robots. He says, “I built a robot whose sole purpose in life was to create an even smaller robot just like himself… So much like himself, that this robot endeavored to create yet another tiny robot, ad infinitum…. This continued for

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July 9th, 2008 by: Karen M.

Planetary Orbit Clock

Planetary Orbit Clock

Here’s another interesting clock brought to us by Japanese online retailer Rakuten. This space-inspired table clock mimics planets in orbit to tell time.

If you can make out the cryptic diagrams above, little metal planets orbit a larger central planet at the middle of the “universe.” One planet signifies hours,…

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March 17th, 2007 by: Technabob

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