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11 Earth-Shattering Food Inventions that Will Change Your Life
As far as we’re concerned, food inventions don’t get nearly the credit they deserve. Sure, they might not be curing cancer or saving the world, but anything that keeps our cereal crunchy and automatically refills our beer cup has got to be worth a little fanfare. With that in mind, here’s a list of eleven food inventions that we’re sure are changing lives all over the world.
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The Most Over-Engineered Flask Known To Man
Finding ways to stealthily transport alcohol has been a long-time obsession for man. We've used just about anything imaginable to do so, too, including fruit and animal bladders.
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The 22 Best Product Designs of the Year
The Design Museum has just announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. And their products shortlist highlights objects whose forms transcend their everyday functions.
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African students invent anti malaria soap
Two African students have invented a malaria repellent soap using local herbs. They were recently rewarded with a $25,000 award at the Global Social Venture
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LEGO: The original patent for a ‘Toy Building Brick’ from 1961
The original LEGO patent for a 'Toy Building Brick' was filed by Godtfried Kirk Christiansen on July 28th, 1958, and registered October 24th, 1961, as Patent No. 3,005,282.
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Self-Assembling Furniture That Could Make Ikea Obsolete
I want you to imagine a scene. You come home with a bundle of squished white fabric. You plug it into the wall like a heating blanket. And within 10 minutes, you have a new chair.That’s the promise of a new materials technology being developed by Noumenon.
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The 7 Most Ridiculously Advanced Machines Built Out of LEGOs
Whatever your proudest LEGO creation was, it's going to look like a crap mountain compared to these.
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Don't Let Patents Kill 3D Printing
One of the reasons why 3D printing is suddenly on the cusp of going mainstream is the expiration of some key patents that have held the technology back for decades. And yet, of course, with any area of the market that is getting hot, there is...
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The search for a better battery
The limitations of 20th-century batteries are holding back technological progress. Is a breakthrough in sight?
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The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World's Cutest Patent Drawing
As a lawyer who works in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Len Nannarone has helped his fair share of tech companies. But the most important startup he’s advised is much closer to home: his 10-year-old son, Owen, a budding inventor and entrepreneur.
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3D-Printed Shoes Have Built-In iPhone Case
The iPhone Mashup Shoe design by Alan Nguyen of Freedom of Creation, a Dutch 3D printing house, is a pair of 3D printed platform heels with a holster on the side to hold an iPhone.
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The 12 Most Terrifying Things Ever Invented for Babies
Inventors make terrible, terrible parents.
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New Titanic II To Set Sail In 2016
It's either the most brilliant idea in the history of themed cruises, or the worst idea in the history of themed cruises, a recreation of the Titanic, now with extra added lifeboats. It is the brainchild of Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, a working replica of the Titanic with carry 2,600 passengers in 850 cabins and an additional 900 crew members, scheduled to set sail in 2016.
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Leap Motion shows off how it's incredible controller will interact with Windows 8
It's what we've always envisioned for Leap Motion — to break down the barriers between people and technology. Here's a video to show you how close we are. With Leap Motion technology, Windows OS is natural, easy, and fun to use.
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LG's 5-inch unbreakable displays to debut later this year
Flexible displays are set to become the next big thing in mobile technology. LG previously confirmed that it will release a smartphone with a flexible display later this year, while unbreakable handsets from Samsung and Motorola are also said to be in the pipeline.
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High-school teen builds one-man submarine for $2,000
An 18-year-old high school student, Justin Beckerman, has built a fully functioning one-man submarine. The project cost just $2000 and took six months.
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Video: Anti-gravity 3D printing
Video showing Mataerial, a project that will allow users to create 3D objects on any given working surface.
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SpeedForm: Under Armour Has Built a Bra For Your Feet
Dave isn't showing me what shoes the Baltimore-based sportswear company already has in the market. No, this time he's promised to show me something new, something the company hinted at back in February at the launch of Armour39, its performance heart rate monitor. It's a shoe, unlike any you've ever seen.
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Burger King creates hands free Whopper holder
In celebration of its 50th anniversary in Puerto Rico, Burger King gave away 50 hands free Whopper holders.
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Next-Generation Consumer 3-D Printer Arrives, but a Lawsuit Looms
Formlabs is bringing down the costs of a better 3-D printing technique, but it must survive a patent lawsuit.
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