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Bertrand Piccard, who hails from a lineage of record-breaking explorers (his gramps was the inspiration for Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics while his dad went seven miles deep down into the Pacific Ocean), assembled a 80-strong team of engineers and technicians who have emerged with the Solar Impulse, a majestic solar-powered glider that weighs [...]
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Artist Blake Fall-Conroy built this cool Minimum Wage Machine, which doughs out a penny every 5.035 seconds in real-time for as long as the user cranks it up by turning a handle. It certainly has a socially-conscious ring to it, which Fall-Conroy professes to be into. The Make blog has more technical details on how [...]
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Here’s a product that’s both pragmatic and innovative: a light generator that charges your gadgets on the go as you pedal. Targeted at cyclists, the Siva Cycle Atom is a 1300mAh removable battery pack that takes the idea of green transport one step further — it harnesses kinetic energy from all that pedaling to charge [...]
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Next time you pick up a Forbes magazine, check to see if it’s got free wifi. Yes, that’s right, Microsoft is giving out free wifi in a select number of Forbes magazines. The magazine is equipped with free wifi for fifteen days, and up to five devices can connect at a time. The magazine router [...]
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CRUX is a personal USB library that brings greater ease and convenience to the storage, usage and management of multiple USB thumbdrives. It integrates the functionality of a multi-USB hub with the charm of craft and fabric to bring you a techtile solution.
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The Grabit Robot Multipurpose Holder was inspired by the world of art toys and minimalist design. Grabit is the first creation by husband and wife team Leo and Angie Fajardo, and it’s now live on Kickstarter. This little robot is not only cute but also functional: it can keep your toothbrushes free of germs and [...]
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Designer Andrew Schneider, of the solar-powered bikini fame, also worries that ‘every year each of us lose about 192 hours of valuable visual sight time to blinking’ (not sure how true this is) — which works out to about eight days of blink time. This is the premise for his BlinkCam project where a Polaroid [...]
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An app that records and monitors what you speaks in your sleep at night? Yes, it exists. That’s not all. In fact, a documentary is now being shot revolving around people whose lives have been changed since they started using the app. As the trailer shows, a guy discovered his singing voice, while a woman [...]
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Touted as ‘the Earth’s most powerful and efficient laboratory radiation source’, the Z machine is located at Albuquerque and is part of the Pulsed Power Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Here, concentrated electrical energy is converted into short pulses of enormous power to generate X-rays and gamma rays. The facility is used for serious science [...]
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Whoa, look what we found via Make Magazine: a contraption that actually turns water to wine. Well, sort of. Dreamt up by Party Robotics’ Robert Kaye and Pierre Michael, the water-to-wine cooler has only been rigged and gutted in a really clever way, that’s all (‘Our solution was to hide an identical water bottle below, [...]
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Due to its changeable weather conditions, Auckland is well known for experiencing four seasons in one day. MetService, a weather website in New Zealand, has built this unique outdoor web browser that shows the weather accurately. The idea promotes that the MetService website reports the weather as fast as it changes – rain, hail or [...]
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Wow, this is completely bonkers. The Photon, a 3D scanner that’s positioned by Toronto-based Matterform as the world’s first, truly affordable 3D scanner for anyone, basically lets, well, anyone take a physical object and turn it into a digital 3D model. The possibilities are seemingly endless there: print out the model as a 3D replication [...]
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Are you a closet drummer? To complicate things, are you a closet drummer who drives? Smack Attack by Palo Alto-based builder G-Man (or Gregor Hanuschak) will let you drum wirelessly with any song on your iPhone or iTunes music library. Simply put on the Smack Attack steering wheel cover (yes, it fits any steering wheel), [...]
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This is pretty cool: a rugged activity tracker that purports to ‘count fun’ (not calories) and measures movements unique to action sports like surf, skate, snow, moto, MTB, BMX, and the likes. It’s built to withstand snow, surf, dirt, and hard pavement knocks and is a modular device that can be worn anywhere on the [...]
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Now this is what we call a smart idea: the SmartWallit is an anti-lost accessory that connects with any smartphone with Bluetooth 4.0 or BLE (think iPhone 4s, iPhone 5 or Android). All you have to do is strap on the super-thin anti-lost device to any object you like — such as your wallet — [...]
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