For some reason this project makes us think of the pet dog Pog Grid from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. It’s not that there’s a ton of drones floating around this guy, it’s that he’s got one which looks like it’s his bodyguard and is controlled by the Google Glass he wears on his head. The future …

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Every winter, millions of tons of rock salt is sprinkled across roads in the US, mainly in the Midwest as well as Northeast regions. It’s a affordable as well as efficient method to prevent accidents. rock salt is chemically the exact same as the stuff that sits next to the pepper, except it isn’t as …

THE road IS PEPPERED WITH rock SALT optionsRead More

Roller skates are fun and all, but they’re pretty well limited to rolling on relatively smooth surfaces. [Fireball Tool] wanted something a little much more rugged, so set about a build of his own.  The challenge of the design was to build these skates using as numerous wheelchair parts as possible, including the wheels. roughly …

GIANT WHEELS make for exciting POWERED ROLLERSKATESRead More

The Nintendo game kid as well as its lots of permutations represent one of the most widely known as well as successful gaming platforms ever produced. There was a decades-long stretch of time where the most prominent youngster in the lunch space was the one who brought in their game kid so the rest of …

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Over in the Swedish city of Södertälje, about 30 km southwest of Stockholm, a pilot program is being explored which will enlist crows to clean up discarded cigarette butts. Butts account for over 60% of litter in Sweden, as well as the per-butt cleanup expense falls between 0.8 as well as 2 Swedish kronor each. The business …

CROWS trade CIGARETTES FOR FOODRead More

There are a large number of methods commercially used to bore a hole into the ground for the sake of extracting drinking water, and the all require big loud equipment. but what if you just want a small well? Do you really have to call in the big guns? [The working group on development Techniques] …

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What can drive on the ground, hop in the air, and continuously step its coaxial rotor assembly without ever having to reset its position? The answer is [New Dexterity]’s Omnirotor All-Terrain Platform. Although still very much a prototype, the video below the break shows that the dexterity claimed by Omnirotor isn’t just a lot of …

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For general daily use, there’s nothing wrong with the common choice of plastics that a lot of 3D printer filaments are offered in. PLA, ABS, PETG — they’ve all got their place, as well as they’re all quite simple to work with. however if you requirement to work with a lot more exotic materials, you …

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