Huffpost Tech: A Japanese inventor has revealed his latest creation – an LED inserted in your nose that lights up when you breathe. The strange device casts a ghostly blue light through your nostril every time it senses a draft. It is the brainchild of Noda Akira, who says he simply attached a temperature monitor […]
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What movie inventions do you wish were real? Here are two recently shared by Flavorwire. Time-traveling DeLorean Everyone’s favorite inventor, Doc Brown, didn’t hurt his reputation by inventing a solution to everyone’s most maddening frustration: time. Back to the Future’s plutonium-powered DeLorean travels through the space-time continuum in style — and even more so after
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Japan has vending machines that can talk to you, sell you everything from bags of rice to bouquets of flowers, and recharge your phone. But a new breed of automated seller has smarts, too–these machines can detect your age and gender and offer drink suggestions accordingly. Run by a company under the JR East railway
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Names like Levi Strauss and Rube Goldberg are generally well known for many reasons, but the Quincy Herald Whig looks at what these people did before they reached fame. Levi Strauss (1829-1902) Twenty-four-year-old Levi Strauss left New York for San Francisco in 1853 to open a dry goods store with his sister and brother-in-law. They
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The Wrongulator, from Red5, is no ordinary calculator. It is, in fact, the world’s worst calculator as it never gives the right answer, ever! If your calculator has been exchanged for this one then every single calculation you’ve entered in it has been wrong. It is perhaps the cruelest practical joke you could inflict on
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The entire town of Scenic, South Dakota is up for sale, and boy is it scenic! The property is posted on buyscenicsd.com, which offers video tours of various locations. Cow skulls adorn the sign for the Longhorn Saloon, which advertises tobacco, lunch and dancing — in that order. 46-Acres (approximately 12 acres in town-lots &
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Deseret News: Take two cups of creativity, add a cup of practical thinking and season the mix with market savvy. That’s the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. In recent years, clever Mormon “marketeers” have pitched everything from having your family history printed on a set of brass plates (complete with rings) to action figures
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If there was ever a day to watch your back, today would be it. Pranks are everywhere, including your inbox. If you love the newest game systems that allow you to use your body as a controller, you will appreciate the new system from Google that will allow you to control Gmail using your body.
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When most people think of a death ray, the first thing that comes to mind is a silly cartoon gun that one character may use on an object to make it disintegrate. One kid has decided to make the device a little more realistic. Unlike the cartoon representation, Eric Jacqmain’s death ray is not a
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While some people are trying to find unique ways to promote their business using Google’s App Inventor, which is currently available by invitation only, one man decided this was the perfect opportunity to propose to his girlfriend. Disguising the proposal as a contest for tickets to the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,
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