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Making Pictures With Water and Waves
Not that this idea is really good for anything other than looking cool, you’ve gotta hand it to these Japanese researchers, who have managed to create a special tank which can momentarily suspend...
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Live Crab Vending Machine: Only in Japan. Oh Wait, This Thing is in China.
I guess that China was feeling a little behind the curve from Japan and their wacky inventions, so they decided to come up with their own. What you’re looking at here is a vending machine that...
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Useless Machine Counts How Many Times It has Proven Useless
For those not familiar with the concept, a Useless Machine is a device with only one function, specifically the ability to turn itself off. In other words, when you turn it on, it turns itself off....
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DIY Robotic Knitting Machine: Sew What?
Let’s be honest, I’ve never had the patience to knit. My mom showed me how, and I did it for about 2 minutes before I went back to playing with my LEGOs. Then again, Correx37 made a robotic knitting...
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Automatic Mini Donut Factory Brings Out the Homer in Us All
We really like donuts around here. My daughter has to have a pink donut with sprinkles several times a week, or she gets mad. My son likes the glazed and I generally eat any kind of donut you put in...
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Spherical Flying Machines: The Prisoner Isn’t Far Behind
This unusual spherical flying machine was developed by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. It’s the first of its kind and is remote-controlled. It can hover like a helicopter. It can fly forward at high...
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Drill Bit Makes Square Holes, Round Pegs Upset
It’s pretty hard to be impressed by a simple drill bit, but this particular one does something I’ve not seen before. Instead of cutting round holes, this special bit cuts perfectly square ones. If...
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LEGO Great Ball Contraption Lives Up to Its Name
If you love LEGO and have the time, you can build yourself a machine just like this one. It’s totally useless, yet totally amazing and mesmerizing. One warning though. This likely was super expensive...
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Brickit Builds a Mini LEGO-Sorting Factory
If you have built large creations with LEGO before, you know that keeping your bricks sorted is essential to keeping things in order. Otherwise it will drive you crazy looking for one specific part in...
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Omniscent Siri 3D Printed iPhone Cover: The Ghost in the Machine
Sure, Siri can be bossy or frustrating at times, but it’s certain that she’s safe to stay in iOS 6 (and probably iPad 3 and the iTV, too.) In tribute to the digital personal assistant, 3D printing...
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LEGO Anesthesia Machine Will Knock You Out
Take a close look at the photo below. At first, it just looks like a couple of pieces of equipment you’d find in a hospital operating room – but look closer. Closer still. Yep, the one on the left –...
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LEGO Beer Machine Opens and Cools Beer, Warms Our Hearts
LEGO and beer. I can’t think of a better combination. This LEGO Beer machine serves up 2 kinds of Dutch beers, opens the bottle and cools it down to a perfect drinking temperature. Are you in love yet?...
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Rube Goldberg Machine Sets World Record
We’ve seen all kinds of crazy Rube Goldberg machines, but this one is breaking records (and bursting balloons.) In fact Purdue University’s Society of Professional Engineers and the Society of Hispanic...
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The Popinator Shoots Popcorn Directly at Your Mouth, One Kernel at a Time
Do you have trouble getting popcorn into your mouthhole? Yeah, I know it can be tricky to reach into the bowl and perfectly align your hand with your mouth to ensure the popped kernel ends up in the...
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MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer Prints Just About Anything
In the realm of awesome computer peripherals, I think the new MakerBot Replicator 2 desktop 3D printer is probably the most epic of all. After all, it’s a peripheral for your computer that you can...
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Dan Grayber and His Mechanical Self-Serving Machines
Some people like building machines that make doing some mundane task easier. Others, like Dan Grayber, do so in order for the machines to fulfill their own mechanical needs – whatever they may be. Dan...
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Skittles Sorting Machine: Segregate the Rainbow
I love candy. Any color will do; candy is candy. But some of you entitled consumers seem to think only one color is good enough for you. Brian Egenriether seems to be one of these discriminating...
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Cloud Machine: Make Your Own Weather
There’s something magical about being able to control the weather, especially if there’s a way to improve it. Personally, I’d like to have some sort of device in my backyard so I can make sure that it...
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iRobot and Raytheon’s All-in-One Robot Fabricator: Hide Your Kids, The...
OK, so basically, self-replicating robots are a no-no when it comes to robotics, because you don’t want them to start taking over the planet and exterminating humans. I for one, don’t welcome our...
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Oreo Separator Machine Gives You Just the Cream Filling, But Not the Way You...
A few weeks ago a video surfaced showing a machine that separates oreo cookies using a hatchet. Now another video has surfaced. This one is a bit more scientific than the first. Even though these...
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