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Swedes Develop Invisible Bike Helmet
You know what kind of sucks about riding a bike? Other than all that pedaling? Bike helmets. Sure, they keep that overrated "brain" from getting splattered, but they take a lot of the open-air-joy out of things, and they're not comfortable. A pair of Swedish women have developed a remarkable solution: the invisible bike helmet.
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Waterproof surface is 'driest ever'
US engineers have created the "most waterproof material ever" - inspired by nasturtium leaves and butterfly wings.
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions
This is a list of inventors whose deaths were in some manner caused by or related to a product, process, procedure, or other innovation that they invented or designed.
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Did Bitcoin creator 'Satoshi Nakamoto' invest in Silk Road?
The Weizmann Institute’s Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir have been closely studying the movement of the semi-anonymous digital currency Bitcoin, and today published a paper that highlights an unusual set of transactions that may closely link its inventor, a mysterious figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto to Silk Road mastermind Dread Pirate Roberts.
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Does Haiti really need luxury hotels?
It has been a long slog to recovery after Haiti’s earthquake almost four years ago. Thousands remain in provisional housing of plywood, tarps, and corrugated metal. New lodging is being created, though. It’s just not all of the type you might expect.
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The CNN 10: Inventions
Some are available now, while others won’t come for a year or two, if ever. But all of them are ingenious in their approach to solving problems. And someday, the names of their inventors may be spoken by future schoolteachers. May we present The CNN 10: Inventions.
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Top 10 Tech of 2013 According to Tumblr
In Tumblr's year-in-review round up, the blogging platform collected some of the most popular posts on the site under several different categories. According to the review, Tumblr calculated popularity by factoring in "total volume of posts and tags (including reblogs) and total traffic." Tumblr users are passionate about a number of subjects, so it's no surprise the most popular tech posts highlighted some of the most innovative tech of 2013.
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Philips Flattens the Light Bulb
For over 100 years, the light bulb didn't evolve much, generally sporting the same, well, bulbous design ever since Thomas Edison gave us the original in 1879. Lately that's changed as LEDs and CFLs have challenged the conventional bulb, and now Philips is taking light bulb design in a new, flatter direction.
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13 Ridiculous Inventions You Won't Believe Existed
Just because someone believes they have a good idea, doesn't necessarily mean the rest of us have to agree. That was certainly the case with this collection of interesting (but completely impractic...
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Who invented wrapping paper?
Stationery purveyors J.C. and Rollie Hall ran into a problem during the 1917 holiday season: Business had been too good at their Kansas City, Mo., shop, and they'd run out of the white, red, and green tissue papers that were the era's standard gift dressing.
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13 of the Most Extraordinarily Useless Food Inventions of 2013
It’s hardly news that forks and knives have been replaced with crank-fitted cutlery and laser-cutter pizza slicers. If you even try to stab your salad with an ordinary utensil, you risk being shamed by your contemporary diners. For those tech-savvy ladies and gents reverse-chilling their beer and popping out Twinkies in waffle makers, this one’s for you.
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Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own
Designer Jeabyun Yeon has created something great. Essentially it turns humans into fish. 'Triton uses a new technology of artificial gill model.- It extracts oxygen under water through a filter in the form of fine threads with holes smaller...
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These will turn your truck into a tank
With the "Track N Go" system you can now easily transform your beloved vehicle into a "tank”! The innovative design allows you to easily slip-on the track system without any modifications to your vehicle, simply drive onto the treads, lock them in place, and you´re ready to fearlessly barrel through snow. Track N Go can also function on bare road, but at $25,000, they don´t come cheap, still, less expensive than buying a tank though
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11 of the Professor's Best Inventions on Gilligan's Island
Russell Johnson, the actor who portrayed Professor Roy Hinkley on Gilligan's Island, passed away Thursday at the age of 89. In honor of the man who will forever live on as the person we'd most like to get trapped on a desert island with, here are some of the Professor's most fantastic inventions.
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Philips' smart lighting tells you where to go in the grocery store
Ever spent ages wandering the grocery store while looking for a hard-to-find ingredient? If Philips brings its new connected retail lighting to your local supermarket, you may always know where to go. The technology uses light-based communication to create a positioning grid for your smartphone, telling you just what route you'll need to take to get everything for that recipe.
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This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood
Phlebotomy. Even the word sounds archaic—and that’s nothing compared to the slow, expensive, and inefficient reality of drawing blood and having it tested. As a college sophomore, Elizabeth Holmes envisioned a way to reinvent old-fashioned phlebotomy and, in the process, usher in an era of comprehensive superfast diagnosis and preventive medicine.
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Infrared Imaging Is Coming to Contact Lenses Near You
It's always good to remind yourself that we as humans only see a very little bit of light. Our slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, the slice known as visible light—sandwiched between the much larger wavelength domains of UV and infrared light—is only about a millionth of the whole range of possible wavelengths that photons exist in. That's a fun thing to note: we see according to what's useful for us to see, or what makes sense for us to see given the limitations of biology...
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Contact lenses with night vision are coming
Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it's only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.
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Stronger Than Steel, Lighter Than Water – 3D Printed Micro Trusses
A team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, led by materials scientist Jens Bauer, have a new 3D printing material which has...
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Philips Clear LED bulb goes retro
LED bulbs are already more efficient than their incandescent forebears, more flexible, and longer running, but is the absence of that familiar old clear design still holding them back? Philips apparently suspects that's the case, hence the new Philips Clear LED, a 40W-equivalent bulb that looks to the casual glance just like a regular, old-fashioned light.
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