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Category Archives: Inventions
Five Steps to Quirky Success
I would add to this summary that quirky is not the place for complex electronics. i have seen some submissions that are clearly more complex that what they want to produce. they say anything that can be sold for under $150 is fair game but i think there should be more guidelines for what they [...]
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Paper-based battery could be in the works
In honor of the Copenhagen conference, here’s a tidbit of green-tech news…
Maybe a energy storage breakthrough is around the corner:
Ordinary paper could one day be used as a lightweight battery to power the devices that are now enabling the printed word to be eclipsed by e-mail, e-books and online news.
The same feature that helps ink adhere [...]
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40+ Inspiring Ambigram logos
…an ambigram is a typographical creation where the word reads the same when upside down, or flips to create a whole new word….
i thought of a use case for this kind of logo. The back of a laptop screen. That would solve the perennial issue of how a logo there can logo correct only when [...]
Amron Experimental
Interesting group of inventions by Scott Amron.
1. newsoap: brand new liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles
2. TheEndo: magnetic clip
3. Brush & Rinse Toothbrush
4. Split Ring Key Blank “Keybrid”
(today their paypal account is ‘unable to receive income’ so not sure what’ sup with that.)
Amron Experimental.
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LaserMotive’s Robot Wins NASA’s $900,000 Space Elevator Prize
Exciting news in the world of space elevator technology today.
LaserMotive’s photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the 3-year history of NASA’s space elevator contest to climb a 2,953-foot-long ribbon, securing a prize of $900,000.
via LaserMotive’s Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA’s $900,000 Space Elevator Prize – Space Elevator – Gizmodo.
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Recycling Billboards into Modern Residential Buildings
One proposal by Front Architects suggests turning large billboards into lofted homes – small houses to be sure, but located in some potentially fascinating places.
via Recycling Billboards into Modern Residential Buildings | Dornob.
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Inventor Portraits and more
I enjoyed this blog – it shares my interests in photography, design and inventions. I bought some of these clever items:
About 10 seconds after Pam Turner showed me how to thread her Spiral Eye Needles, I was an expert. It usually takes me longer to thread a needle than it does to sew a button, [...]
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Tokyo Architecture – How to Protect View of Mt. Fuji
An interesting article about a group that is trying to protect their neighborhood view of Mt. Fuji. New buildings keep being built taller and taller. The solution I propose? Just build a public park on top of each of those new buildings. Kind of like the public plaza or “sky lobby” in the new San [...]
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News ways to take online payments: Square and iPhone