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Dr Mohamed Saafi and David McGahon have developed a smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in large structures.
Researchers have developed a ’smart paint’ able to detect tiny faults before damage can occur, and at a fraction of the cost of current methods.
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Big sound using age old principles.
I know I’ve been all about the old-fashioned-looking iPhone speakers lately, most of which are electricity-free. And 3D printing. So I’m jazzed the two have come together with this 3D printed iVictrola Gramophone dreamed up by Schreer Design and manufactured by Shapeways.
Check. It. Out. (video after jump…)
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They may look like other jeans, but these smell different.
These jeans look like any other pair of denim you’d see on a fashionable twentysomething. Dark, slim fit and cut perfectly, heck, I wouldn’t mind buying these myself. But unlike other jeans, this pair is made with scratch ‘n sniff raspberry scented denim. Yes. Scratch and [...]
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Localized snowfall.
If your choices were fog, foam or snow, wouldn’t snow be a welcome change from the others?
In the early 1990’s, Francisco Guerra started making snow for his magic act. Within a few years, special events, movies, and theme parks wanted to use this unique effect to create magical snowfall.
What is amazing about this effect [...]
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A powerful X-ray laser pulse from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source comes up from the lower-left corner (shown as green) and hits a neon atom (center). This intense incoming light energizes an electron from an inner orbit (or shell) closest to the neon nucleus (center, brown), knocking it totally out of the [...]
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Why make your food when you can print it?
Futurist Thomas Frey talked about 3D food printers HERE and now we have a production model that can print with chocolate (and more). How awesome is that!
From Gizmodo:
Instead of the toxic smell of melted plastics, while the Imagine 3D printer is doing its thing, your workspace will [...]
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Lifebook makes your tech life more modular.
Designer Prashant Chandra, an industrial designer from New Delhi, India, had come up with a solution for combining a whole lot of independent gadgets. Instead of repeating hardware — such as with an iPad acting as a larger version of an iPhone, an iPod acting like a lost part [...]
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Unless you work at the Pentagon, the key locks on your desk drawers are probably easy to compromise. So with their new Covert, the folks at Quirky figured that a drawer lock can’t be picked if it can’t be found.
The sliding locking mechanism comes with adhesive tape for a temporary solution, but if you were [...]
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Some of the innovations at CES were basic and if you saw one of them you were going to see 20. Others jumped out and smacked you in the noggin because there were obvious landmark steps in a new direction. The Leonar3Do virtual reality design kit really captured our imagination and kept us thinking all [...]
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Zerochroma’s iPad case.
Although we saw an lot of different ones, one of my favorite accessories at ShowStoppers on Tuesday evening was the iPad case from Zerochroma. The sleek design and simplicity of the product makes it a must have for iPad owners. Although the smart cover for the iPad is functional as a stand you [...]
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Don’t worry if your electronics take a splash with HzO technology.
HzO’s award winning proprietary WaterBlock is cutting-edge technology that protects your valuable digital electronics from their number one nemesis: H2O. Powerful and invisible, WaterBlock protects your devices on a molecular scale, by coating all the circuitry on your electronic devices so you can breathe easy [...]
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Charge, move, sync and store multiple iPads with ease.
Here’s something that every school and library will soon have in one form or another. An iPad Trolley is a storage container that provides security for the devices both from theft as well as gravity. It also charges and can sync information to the stored units…
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When the 70s meet an iPad.
A lot of new devices are starting to flood the market that aim to better the viewpoint of your iPad or make it more versatile. The Beanpad by Mojo Worx Asia is no exception. This invention enlists the wildly successful hippy era trend of beanbags and combines it with a [...]
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Now you can have a robot that moves where it needs to and purifies the air.
The level of pollution in our ecosystem is often higher than ever before. Many of us live in places where the air quality is questionable and could use help, especially if you already have some sort of health condition. Many [...]
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Recycling can lids can turn into a heated situation.
It takes two hours on a sunny day, but this solar heater built by engineering students at Humboldt State University in California works. It’s made from waste materials, specifically can lids. These are held together by vines from Himalaya blackberry plants, which are an invasive species in [...]
