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Package Thieves Get Glitter Bomb Surprise

Package theft a problem many of us have experienced with the increase of home deliveries we get these days. Engineer Mark Rober is no stranger to this. A shipment had been delivered, but when checking his…

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This Robot Perfectly Skips Stones

At last, somebody built a robot that does something useful rather than just wait around to gain sentience and kill us. This guy is so cute he would never hurt anyone. I think. Ex-NASA engineer and…

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World’s Largest Super Soaker Breaks Record and Breaks Glass

It figures that it would be a former NASA engineer who had a hand in building the world’s largest Super Soaker water gun. It is so giant that this Super Soaker managed to break a Guinness…

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Auto-tracking Dartboard Makes Everyone a Pro

When you’re at the pub, drinking all night and playing darts, I bet your aim is pretty bad. For most of us, hitting the bulls-eye becomes harder the more you drink. Not when you’re playing with…

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The Science of Breaking a Bottle With Your Bare Hands

Breaking a bottle with your bare hands isn’t a remotely good idea. Even if you have experience breaking bottles with a punch, you could seriously hurt yourself, and even permanently damage your hand. However, it turns…

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Giant NERF Gun Will Knock Out Your Soul

I’ve been involved in enough NERF wars to know you want to protect two specific parts of your body… or technically four. You protect your eyes and your balls. Everything else can take a hit with…

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Hacked NES Boots Unwanted Chatterboxes from Your Office

Sick of people coming into your office and talking your ear off? There are plenty of ways to get them to leave, but I’ve never thought of using an old NES system to hurry them on…

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Fireplace Ugly Sweater Won’t Light Your Torso on Fire

Just how many ways can one guy use the video capabilities of his mobile devices to entertain us with? Well if you’re tinkerer Mark Rober, I guess the answer is “plenty.” After amusing us with his…

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DigitalDudz Turn T-shirts into Awesome Halloween Costumes on the Cheap

Last year, NASA engineer Mark Rober shared his cool see-through iPad costume with us, but while it was one of the more clever geeky costumes I’d seen in a while, it wasn’t exactly cheap to pull…

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Guy Makes Giant Light-up Mario Kite, Doesn’t Make Any Airplanes Crash

Mark Rober had a cool idea – he wanted to make a giant illuminated Mario and float him into the night sky. He achieved this using dozens of balloons loaded with LED illumination.…

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Last-Minute Costume Idea: Cut a Hole in Your Torso with Two iPad 2s

If you still don’t have a Halloween costume, you’re probably left to the dregs of the random ill-fitting Scooby Doo and Teletubbies costumes at your local Wal-Mart. But if you and a buddy can spare your…

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Package Thieves Get Glitter Bomb Surprise

This Robot Perfectly Skips Stones

World’s Largest Super Soaker Breaks Record and Breaks Glass

Auto-tracking Dartboard Makes Everyone a Pro

The Science of Breaking a Bottle With Your Bare Hands

Giant NERF Gun Will Knock Out Your Soul

Hacked NES Boots Unwanted Chatterboxes from Your Office

Fireplace Ugly Sweater Won’t Light Your Torso on Fire

DigitalDudz Turn T-shirts into Awesome Halloween Costumes on the Cheap

Guy Makes Giant Light-up Mario Kite, Doesn’t Make Any Airplanes Crash

Last-Minute Costume Idea: Cut a Hole in Your Torso with Two iPad 2s

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