February 2010
5 posts
Spongy Steel Won't Soak Up a Mess, But It... →
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Repeat after me “spongy steel is good”.
Future comic book heroes may be referred to as Men of Spongy Steel if one researcher’s experimental metal makes it out of the lab and…
New Panasonic Lithium-Ion Battery to Power Up a... →
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A battery that can power your home for a week. Well, probably could only power my house for about 12 hours. This could make solar power feasable for even the sun deprived northern…
General Electric Gives Gearless Wind Turbines a... →
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Gear maintenance and gear failure are one of the most important aspects of wind turbine economy. Vestas for one has been plagued by costly replacements in recent years. Eliminate…
French Using Sewage to Heat Their Swimming Pools :... →
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Re-using hot water has to be a win-win affair. Gotta love this innovative idea.
When water from the shower, dishwasher, or washing-machine is drained into the sewer-pipes, it’s not…
How Madden is Raising a New Generation of Football... →
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Asked how many NFL players also play Madden football, Brandon Stokley has a simple answer: “Everybody”.
When Denver’s Brandon Stokely caught a game-winning pass against…
October 2009
3 posts
Ceramic Speakers designed by Joey Roth →
These speakers are so cool. I love the thought that has gone into them. Put a couple of Lowther PM6s in these ceramic cabinets and you have some serious speakers. Maybe there’s a larger…
Joey Roth's Ceramic Speakers →
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Man, oh man, whip a couple of Lowther PM6 full tone speakers in those cabinets and you have potential for a great system.
Joey Roth, designer of the wonderful Sorapot…
Joey Roth's Ceramic Speakers →
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Man, oh man, whip a couple of Lowther PM6 full tone speakers in those cabinets and you have potential for a great system.
Joey Roth, designer of the wonderful Sorapot…
August 2009
1 post
Google Chrome Theme Gallery Open for Business, 30... →
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One small step for man…
While themes aren’t exactly all about productivity, strictly speaking, it never hurts to spice things up a little bit and make your workspace a…
June 2009
1 post
Looking for a Freelance Project Bonanza? Look No... →
Some of you may be growing tired of hearing about companies described as the “Kayak of _____” but if the analogy fits, we might as well abuse it. So without further ado, I give you DoNanza,…
April 2009
6 posts
The New Mantra of Tech: It's Good Enough... →
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“These are devices that fulfill a functional niche, sure, but do so with the minimum amount of effort possible—keeping a unit price and bulkiness to a minimum. The breakthrough…
Apparently We Can Turn Carbon Dioxide Into... →
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In the future we will sing praise to “N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)”. Why? you ask. Because this little gassy darling can turn Co2 into Methanol, a clean burning biofuel. Well thats…
Power company plans first orbital solar power... →
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My first question is how the heck can you not get fried when you wander into a 200 megawatt electron stream? Apart from that this really sounds great; in a kind of Flash Gordon sort…
A Peek Inside A Gadget Recycling Factory... →
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Click on the Wired Link and have a look into the future. I really hope that this is a good business as well.
Our favorite electronics aren’t always the easiest items to…
Cannonball floating in mercury →
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OK, OK, this is a tidbit for the high school geek in us all. Mercury is so cool. To bad it’s super toxic!
Twenty six seconds’ worth of science: a cannonball floating in…
Google's Design Problem: All Data, No Vision... →
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“Google’s products are extremely functional, and easy to use. But they’re never really beautiful. And maybe they—or anything else effectively designed by millions—never will be.” I…
February 2009
4 posts
How On-Field Football Turns Into Seamless... →
The quick composition of today’s football games, with footage coming from multiple cameras focused all around the stadium, has to be compiled and edited with incredible speed and confidence….
80 Buses in Oslo Will Be Powered by Raw Sewage... →
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This comes from a country that is swimming in petro-dollars. Symbol politics at it’s very best.
This might be the most disgusting use of green technology I’ve ever seen, but…
Grey water toilet system reuses shower water with... →
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What if there was a law that made this manditory for all new buildings and remodels? What would the repercussions be? What about using rainwater as well.
This toilet system…
Garbage-powered garbage truck now making its way... →
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I prefer the De Tomaso Pantera in “Back to the future” but I guess this is a start.
The Brits get all the cool stuff — Queen Elizabeth II, The Sex Pistols… and now a…
January 2009
2 posts
New NASA Carbon Material Could Make Space... →
Shared by John Another Arthur C. Clarke idea coming to life. What else could be expected from the man who first thought up the geostationary sattelite.
The idea of an elevator that could…
Bruce Sterling's state of the world 2009 →
Bruce Sterling’s doing his annual “state of the world” public interview on the WELL’s Inkwell.vue conference, and taking all comers, dropping science and bon mots. I could read this stuff all day. …
December 2008
2 posts
Send your old shoes to Dubya's Liberry →
Got an old pair of shoes lying around, waiting to be used in a ritual gesture of disrespect? Send ‘em to the GW Bush liberry so they can put them on the My Pet Goat shelf.
George W. Bush…
MiFi puts portable 3G hotspot in your pocket →
Novatel’s new range of portable 3G routers turn you into a walking WiFi hotspot, wherever you wander. Dubbed MiFi, they’re unlike standard EVDO routers in that the cellular modem is…
November 2008
1 post
Paper bottles →
BrandImage (whose site in an unnavigable, unlinkable Flash blob) have come up with an all-paper bottle. This looks like a concept, not a product, but it’s an intriguing one nevertheless.
The…
September 2008
2 posts
Bottlemania: even-handed and engrossing look at... →
Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It is a balanced, nuanced, entertaining and vastly informative look at the crisis of water — bottled and tap — in the…
Ridgid SeeSnake Micro Inspection Camera →
Generally, micro inspection cameras are frightfully expensive professional instruments for dedicated industrial applications with commensurately high professional fees attached. When I…
June 2008
2 posts
Military TGER Generator Runs on Trash [Garbage... →
The U.S. military has been running two prototype generators that run on leftovers, shredded documents and ammunition wrappers at their headquarters in Iraq. The Tactical Garbage to Energy…
Researchers show off flexible, band-aid-sized... →
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We’ve seen tactile displays of all shapes and sizes, but none quite like this latest creation from a group of researchers at Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University…
May 2008
9 posts
open source make it yourself gadget →
They have the hardware, the crowd supplies the application software. Snap-on modularity meets plug-in functionality. Buglabs’s new build-your-own-gadget device has seen the light of…
Build Your Own Gadgets with Bug Labs | Nic... →
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They have the hardware, the crowd supplies the application software. Snap-on modularity meets snap-in functionality.
Got a great idea for a gadget but don’t have access to a…
and I thought my Xbox 360 controller was... →
Check out this article which compares 16 F1 racing wheels. No these aren’t the cheezy plastic ones sold by Logitec and Creative, these are the real deal. My favorite is the 2007 McLaren…
Bocci Wallplugs: If Apple Designed a Power... →
Bocci’s wallplugs are a DIY project, but the end result is stunningly minimal and clean, especially compared to the ugly plates we’re all used to. Just a sparse power outlet, floating in your…
The device that put the pride back into selling... →
This everyday product changed the act of selling shoes into a science. The Brannock device, as it’s called, is the sole invention of Charles F. Brannock back in 1926. Even though they last…
Switched On: Green Plug tries to replace the worry... →
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Someday our grandchildren are going to laugh at all the power supply bricks we use today. Hopefully we also reuse them as well.
Filed under: Peripherals
Each week Ross…
Royal Pingdom » What the inside of a container... →
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Is there room in the backyard for this honey?
Instant Kitchen - Hansen Living →
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Just add water… Oh and gas… maybe electricity too. Ok Ok it is a kitchen after all.
Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide (and how... →
The Moleskine notebook is truly wonderful. This is a complete guide which includes the Moleskale, a fun way to rank your addiction!
April 2008
2 posts
Dean Kamen aims to clean water, generate... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
This one has been making the rounds for a little while now (including a recent appearance on The Colbert Report, viewable after the break), but it hasn’t…
ABB industrial robot: Its so fast it's scary. →
It’s the world’s fastest industrial robot, and is used to pick and sort items on a production line— innocent things like sausages and croissants. By fastest, it means 10g of acceleration: that’s zero…
March 2008
5 posts
Papercraft heads →
This is absolutely hysterical. I just love the idea. In the artist Bert Simons own words “These heads are made like the papercraft houses and animals”. He’s so into it he even cloned…
A new take on the Notebook Hard Disk →
Not just any “notebook” either; no, an original Molskine!! This is the best notebook mod ever!
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This is a wind light or rightly called “the Original Windlight”. It gets lights when the wind blows. The more it blows the more it lights. The minimum wind speed is 3 mph. The product,…
InnovaTek's hand-sized microreactor converts... →
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While oil prices continue to soar to new heights, the gurus at InnovaTek are peering into the future. After years of work, said company is finally testing…
February 2008
8 posts
Weird Plasma Thingamachine Creates the Sleekest... →
Paul Knight uses this weird machine to change the appearance of iPhones and iPods into spy plane black titanium nitride-coated machines, which are quite more beautiful than the originals. It uses “plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition” to modify the nature of the surfaces, a complex chemical process used to coat objects like luxury watches, drill bits or aircraft blades. The...
Wiperless windshields in your future? Thanks,... →
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It’s really too bad nanotechnology is so gosh darn morally unacceptable, it could do so much good for humanity! Take this new wiperless windshield, for instance. Designed by Leonardo Fioravanti of Pininfarina, the Hidra features an aerodynamic design, and a bit of a nanotech sandwich (mmm, sandwich) to keep the front glass clear of water and debris. The first...
Cellphone Display Concept Designed for Dracula Is... →
Here’s a design that Dracula would love: a subcutaneously-implanted, wireless digital tattoo display whose fuel cell is powered by blood. An entrant into the same Greener Design Competition as the gravity clock, the concept uses Bluetooth to communicate with your portable gadgets???or even devices implanted elsewhere in your body.
Jim Mielke’s concept would be implanted beneath the...
BMW (South Africa). Defining innovation. →
The line between art and engineering is only in our minds. WOOOAH!!
Cellphone Display Concept Designed for Dracula Is... →
Here’s a design that Dracula would love: a subcutaneously-implanted, wireless digital tattoo display whose fuel cell is powered by blood. An entrant into the same Greener Design Competition as the gravity clock, the concept uses Bluetooth to communicate with your portable gadgets—or even devices implanted elsewhere in your body.
Jim Mielke’s concept would be implanted beneath the...