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How A Trash Can Proves The Competitive Advantage Of Design
We are often asked if everything can be designed. Is it possible to differentiate a product, command higher prices, and build a brand through design in any type of product category? The answer is yes. All products, even digital ones, have a presence that people can feel and appraise.
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Is This a Patent for the Rumored "Budget" iPhone?
It's a rumor that never dies: Apple is working on a cheaper, "budget" iPhone that will push for market-share in markets where the company's typically premium are especially expensive.
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Bill would force 'patent trolls' to pay legal costs
A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday that aims to combat patent trolls—firms that accumulate patents for the purpose of suing other companies rather than creating new products.
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“Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds
And the Department of Justice says there's nothing illegal about it, either.
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6 Inventors Who Changed the World And Got Screwed in Return
Some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them, and since we really don't like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.
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How Far Could a Drug Cannon Shoot?
Recently, a device to launch drugs over the border was confiscated. How far could this thing shoot?
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Project Snooker: Real Game Detection
A snooker project capable of ball, cue and tables detection, for easy learning and move prediction.
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Apple patent would have devices sense a squeeze through metal
Apple likes to build devices using metal. Unfortunately, the material isn\'t usually conducive to touch, in the literal sense of the word -- capacitive.
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Can fungi replace plastics?
Fungi, with the exception of shitake and certain other mushrooms, tend to be something we associate with moldy bread or dank-smelling mildew. But they really deserve more respect. Fungi have fantastic capabilities and can be grown, under certain circumstances, in almost any shape and be totally biodegradable.
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Building the World's Largest Ship (in 76 seconds)
A timelapse of the construction of Maersk Line's very first Triple-E vessel at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, Korea. The timelapse was produced by Discovery Channel and Maersk, and it consists of 50,000 photos taken over 3 months.
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An Inhalable ‘Whisky Tornado’ That Can Get You Drunk
UK-based design duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr of Bompas & Parr have created a ‘whisky tornado’ that can actually make you drunk when inhaled.
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How Relying on Algorithms and Bots Can Be Really, Really Dangerous
So you can’t wait for a self-driving car to take away the drudgery of driving? Me neither! But consider this scenario, recently posed by neuroscientist Gary Marcus: Your car is on a narrow bridge when a school bus veers into your lane. Should your self-driving car plunge off the bridge—sacrificing your life to save those of the children?
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Yes, For Real, It’s An Invisible Bicycle Helmet And It Is Awesome
I love smart design, when you can just look at a product or service and be able to see the methodical, thorough, detail-oriented thinking process that went behind it, aimed at solving a problem, innovating, and disregarding convention.
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Who Invented the Mirror?
The silvered-glass mirrors found throughout the world today first got their start in Germany almost 200 years ago.
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Japanese scientists create 'Smell-O-Vision' screen
Take a big whiff! You may some day be smelling, as well as seeing, all the action on your TV set thanks to a smelling screen developed by Japanese researchers.
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The 10 Coolest Projects Being Funded On Kickstarter This Month
Ever since Kickstarter first burst into the public eye, there has been a deluge of amazing projects for folks to back. Then again, there have also been a lot of really crappy ones.
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Watch this smart foam chair 'grow' and unpack itself
Sometimes we dream. We dream of a world with no more flat-pack furniture, no more obtuse construction manuals and no more missing screws. Smart foam tech
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Next Xbox reveal due 21st May, costs $500 or $300 with a subscription
Microsoft will reveal its next-generation Xbox at an event on 21st May, multiple reports have suggested. The console will launch in "early November", seasoned Microsoft analyst Paul Thurrot has revealed.
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Azzam, Airbus 380 & More of the World’s Largest Things
See photos of the world’s largest hotel, yacht, private jet, and more.
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NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days
NASA, and plenty of private individuals, want to put mankind on Mars. Now a team at the University of Washington, funded by the space agency, is about to start building a fusion engine that could get humans there in just 30 days and make other forms of space travel obsolete.
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