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Tech is always evolving – creating new solutions to problems so we can be insanely productive… or silly. We find the cutting edge products that help us do both because you can’t be a creative without a little fun. Scroll down for a look at some of the wildest, coolest, bizarre and amazing inventions that have recently arrived.  Your colleagues will be jealous of your new toys.

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Smart thermometer keeps tabs on your community’s health status

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 16 May 2013

A thermometer measures temperature. Sure, but it can do so much more. New York-based Kinsa, which aims to create the world’s first real-time map of human health, has given the thermometer a complete overhaul with its Kinsa Smart Thermometer. The redesigned thermometer leverages on the connectivity of the smartphone to go beyond measuring your body [...]

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This little bug will add wifi to any hardware you want

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 16 May 2013

Minneapolis-based Spark Devices, a team of engineers, designers and makers, have been working on the Spark Core, an open source Arduino-compatible device that connects the Internet to any hardware using Wifi. It’s a little board that looks more like a bug than the powerhouse it is: it has a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3, a [...]

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Tracking your nutrition step-by-step with the Smart Food Scale

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 16 May 2013

A food scale that’s smart enough to track what you’re eating and dough out the exact nutritional information for the food you weigh and cook? That’s the Smart Food Scale, a Bluetooth-enabled food scale that comes with a companion iOS app. You can use it as a normal scale and measure out portions with ease [...]

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New Cloud storage solution: Set up your own data center at home

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 16 May 2013

The Cloud is a great place to store all your precious data, but that option, as the folks of Space Monkey tell us, will set you back by over $800 a year for every TB’s worth — plus it will take take months or years (that’s forever in Internet time) to push 1TB of data [...]

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Silent velcro: end those awful ripping noises

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Listed as one of the hottest inventions this year, according to Webmpires, Silent Velcro is a new product that everyone will want. The new concept lets you avoid those awkward moments of creating a painfully loud ripping noise the next time you go to open your velcro bag or take off your strap shoes. How [...]

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Finally, wearable technology for dogs

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Ridogulous Labs has developed the Smart Collar, a dog collar that works with a smartphone app and a proprietary algorithm to ensure that your canine companion reaps the benefits of today’s technology with you too. There’s GPS in it, which allows you to find your dog if he’s missing and comes with brain training and [...]

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Bendable TV screen may be a thing of the future

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

If the new patent from South Korean electronic giant Samsung is anything to go by, we might all one day be able to bend TV screens to make the viewing angle display a whole lot better. Using infrared or Bluetooth, the remote control can transmit commands for the flexible display panel to rotate at an [...]

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Animated visualization of every observed meteorite that has hit Earth

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

I’ve always had a small, nagging fear in the back of my mind that a monster meteorite might splinter the earth into a million pieces. But when I step back and think it through, there actually have been a whole lot of meteorite strikes. And the earth is still just fine. Thanks to the smarts [...]

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Barman device lets you mix perfect drinks using your smartphone

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

When systems coordinator John Gallagher tried to make the perfect Long Island Ice Tea for his wife six years ago, he thought there had to be a easier way to mix drinks accurately all the time. Now in 2013, he has developed The Barman, an elegant little box you can put your glass down on [...]

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Glowing plants can light up your home, sans electricity

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Think of lighting indoors, and bulbs naturally come to mind. Now a three-man team from San Francisco are turning these bulbs on their heads and turning to plants as light solutions in their place. That’s right, we’re talking about real plants that glow. It’s good news for those with green fingers. Using synthetic biology techniques, [...]

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MaKey MaKey: Hook up random stuff and use it as a keyboard

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By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Wednesday 15 May 2013

Wow. MaKey MaKey is an easy-to-use kit that lets you hook up anything (well, anything that can conduct a bit of electricity) to your computer using alligator keys and cables, and then hit these random objects as computer keys or mouse buttons. The power is yours to do this will cost you just US$49.99. If [...]

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Photo of the biggest gamma ray burst ever in the universe

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Tuesday 14 May 2013

Gamma Ray bursts were first stumbled upon back in the 1960s. They built telescopes to pick up on secret thermonuclear tests by the Soviets and Chinese, but they also began picking up on Gamma Rays generated from huge explosions in outer-space. Though this confounded scientists at the start, they now accept that these explosions go [...]

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Talking tissue box study: Should tissue boxes speak?

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Tuesday 14 May 2013

Would you respond to advice given from a box of tissues? S Shyam Sundar of Media Effects Research Laboratory wants to know just how comfortable the general public is with talking objects. So he set up a study that involved a plain box of tissues, some lab workers, and a group of normal people as test subjects.   While the [...]

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Annular solar eclipse turns sun into a ring of fire

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Monday 13 May 2013

Last Friday, the first solar eclipse of the year was visible to a lucky few in Western Australia and some Pacific Islands. The unique celestial event created a ‘ring of fire’ pattern as the moon came between us earthlings and the sun. Though it is dangerous to look straight at an eclipse, audiences were provided [...]

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Reddit is now a video game

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By Annie Churdar in Tech on Saturday 11 May 2013

In case you aren’t familiar with Reddit, let me bring you up to speed. It’s a website that claims to be the front page of the Internet. And well, it is. Reddit fans read and rate stories, photos, and trends to see what will reach the top of the list of “what’s trending now”. But not only is [...]

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