April 20, 2008
Elevator problems
...The tenants of a large office building complained about the increasingly poor elevator service. A consulting firm specializing in elevator-related problems was employed to deal with the situation. It first established that average waiting time for elevators was too long. It then evaluated the possibilities of adding elevators, replacing existing elevators with faster ones, and introducing computer controls to improve utilization of elevators. For various reasons, none of these turned out to be satisfactory. The engineers declared the problem to be unsolvable.
When exposed to the problem, a young psychologist employed in the building's personnel department made a simple suggestion that dissolved the problem. Unlike the engineers who saw the service as too slow, he saw the problem as one deriving from the boredom of those waiting for an elevator. So he decided they should be given something to do. He suggested putting mirrors in the elevator lobbies to occupy those waiting by enabling them to look at themselves and others without appearing to do so. The mirrors were put up and complaints stopped. In fact, some of the previously complaining tenants congratulated management on improvement of the elevator service...
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What do with an outmoded technology? Turn it into entertainment. A plethora of services using photo booths have sprung up. In the UK, Boothnation offers customized booths for use at events
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Victorian Science Fiction: How To Make Rivets
Wallace and Gromit fan patents one of his inventions. A boy of five is thought to be the UK's youngest person to patent an invention after coming up with a labor-saving broom to help his father sweep leaves
Crab-Fu Steam Works
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April 13, 2008
Just a burger
For the third time in the last four years, the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers earned the top spot in the 21st annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Saturday (April 5) at the Purdue Armory.
This year's task was to assemble a hamburger consisting of no less than one precooked meat patty, two vegetables and two condiments, sandwiched between two bun halves. More than 1,500 people attended the event
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Unordinary Spines by photographer Gina Bailey. More locations
Re-post: The Statue of liberty formed by 18,000 soldiers (July 1918. Click on pix twice to biggify)
Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled "211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull." We have given this specimen a careful and detailed examination, and regret to inform you that we disagree with your theory that it represents "conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Franklin County two million years ago."
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March 09, 2008
Why Extra Fingers?
Polydactyly, a congenital abnormality, is the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes. Although the condition is usually not life-threatening or even particularly debilitating, most people in Western societies have the extra digits removed surgically, usually while the child is about 1 year of age.
According to wikipedia, the condition is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant characteristic and has an incidence of 1 in every 500 live births although the frequency is higher in some groups (for example among the Amish).
It seems that the painter Raphael employed some models with Polydactyly and that at least in four instances, he unmistakably incorporated them into his paintings
13 People with Extra Body Parts
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February 25, 2008
Rockwell Automation's Retro Encabulator
Here at Rockwell Automation's world headquarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership and operating excellence. With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current, for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.
Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance Electric motors, Allen-Bradley controls, and all monitored by Rockwell Software is: Rockwell Automation's 'Retro-Encabulator'. Now, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.
The original machine had a base-plate of pre-fabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar wane shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.
Moreover, whenever fluorescence score motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The 'Retro-Encabulator' has now reached a high level of development, and it's being successfully used in the operation of milford-trenions.
It's available soon; wherever Rockwell Automation products are sold.
"The turbo-encabulator in industry" is the contribution of J.H. Quick, graduate member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London, England, and was first published in the Institution's Students' Quarterly Journal vol 15 no. 58 p. 22 in December 1944
More: Forum discussion on competing products
From Damon's Daemon
Also: Homemade 400mm binoscope science inventions
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February 20, 2008
The art of walking
Walking as art. (From Hanuman)
The anatomy of an illusion - and what it tells us about the visual system
The Vrolik Museum: 150 medical pictures; 400 anatomical drawings; 2,000 pharmacy slides and pharmacy teaching collection; 6 psychological apparatus; 530 items of experimental medical equipment; 10,000 anatomical, embryological and other specimens; 600 abnormalities; 10,000 oesteological specimens; 100 models; 7 plaster models. (From Athanasius Kircher Society)
Lessons in Calligraphy and Penmanship from The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting
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February 12, 2008
How good ideas can change the world
…"The cleverest idea I've seen in years"… The PlayPumps system produces clean waters in poor, rural communities in Africa. It is generated by a water pump and fueled by children playing on a merry-go-round. (From Guy Kawasaki)
Enigma-Like Ciphering Machine Patents
A real Clockwork Orange in action. (May take awhile to download)
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January 20, 2008
The Brazil nut effect
Joe Rinaudo has a passion for antique phonographs, hand crank motion picture projectors, and mechanical musical instruments. Among these, his most prized possession is the American Fotoplayer. (From Dirty World)
The Brazil nut effect is the name given to a phenomenon in which the largest particles end up on the surface when a granular material containing a mixture of objects of different sizes is shaken
Patent redering. Promote your patent with high-quality 3-dimentional visualization
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December 20, 2007
HGP
Completed in 2003, the The Human Genome Project was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
Project goals were to
• identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA,
• determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
• store this information in databases,
• improve tools for data analysis,
• transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
• address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.
Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years...
Video: Omni directional wheels
Edison labs, Henry Ford Museum, Detroit
Re-post: The Rube Goldberg Alarm Clock
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November 26, 2007
Liquid oxygen
The Swiss-made Mikiphone was patented by the Vadász brothers in November 1924. It's probably the smallest gramophone ever placed on the marked, folded up to the size of a large pocket watch or a small cheese case. (From Ishbadiddle)
USPTO Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
Most folks in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel know Scott Jones as "the guy who invented voicemail." In the early '90s Jones made about $50 million on his company, which created the predominate form of voicemail, and he "retired" at age 31. Over the past two decades this driven inventor has been generating ideas for new products and companies - some were successful, others hit the scrap heap - at a pace that would make Thomas Edison's head spin. Inside the mind of a crazy (rich) inventor
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October 27, 2007
Patterns in Primes
Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers, photographed by Mark Richards. (From Guy Kawasaki)
Patterns in Primes. Also, List of Largest Known Primes at The Prime Pages
A short about Dictyostelium sorting cells
The entertainment industry is abuzz following the Sony Corporation's unveiling Monday of the Utertron 9000, a state-of-the-art in-utero womb-entertainment system for children between the ages of minus nine months and zero
(Graphic above from Binary Symmetry by MC Hess)
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October 06, 2007
Pr(yi=1|xi) = 1/(1 + exp(-xi ß))
US patent number 5255452 for the ‘Jacko Lean’ as seen in the video for Smooth Criminal and his live performances. (From It’s nice that). Also, US patent # 7122000: Method of Using a Water Pipe to provide sexual stimulation…
Weapon of Math Deduction: A Statistical Formula for Conflict Evaluation
Science Tattoos by Carl Zimmer
Test your randomness - Click 50 times randomly inside the box and press countinue when you are done
Timeline of the most important inventions on wikipedia
Interesting elevators @ Deputy Dog
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August 28, 2007
Battle between AC and DC current
Antique microscope slides, looked at from a strictly aesthetic standpoint (egged on by a design obsessed brain obviously) are some of the most elegant and perfectly beautiful human artifacts on planet earth. You can quote me on that. See below for irrefutable Beautiful Specimens
Thomas Edison hated cats
Also, Edison's prose poems. (From Nelson's blog)
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July 26, 2007
RBS
Flight of the Bumble-Bee and other amazing rolling ball sculptures (also known as a RBS) by Eddie Boes, a combination of art & engineering
Other kinetic sculptures; The Octapult by Bradley N. Litwin, a vocalist and guitar player whose repertoire includes 1920's and 1930's vintage blues, stride and ragtime
When Ph.D.s Get Frustrated - Contains a fairly detailed explanation of Lord Kelvin’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, and a helpful diagram
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June 25, 2007
Human curiosity
Simple extra handle added to a shovel makes it almost fun to dig. I came up with this idea while digging a 100 foot long, 2 foot deep drainage trench and it works so well that I wanted to put it on my webpage. On the web I find a SNOW shovel for sale that has an added handle, but could not find any reference to using a second handle with a regular dirt-digging type shovel
Home Made Welding Machine and other African gadgets and ingenuity
Make a personalized bottle of Clear Slime
The 999 black wooden cubes represent the material representation of human curiosity
10 years of Weird Inventions at The Daily Show
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April 17, 2007
Frank Pichel's Tear-Away Suit
Inventor Frank Pichel demonstrates the tear-away suit he developed to enable stealthy streaking, the last scene of the clip shows an extremely successful demonstration of the suit's capabilities. This clip does contain pixellated genitalia
Treknology Encyclopedia - Scientific concepts and technical devices in Star Trek
How to Un-Solve a Problem
Trampe - A bicycle lift in Trondheim, Norway. With instructional video
The Cox Bolt Gun is perhaps one of the Most Dangerous tools ever conceived
Virtual Lens Plant: How Canon lenses are made
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March 10, 2007
Solar Powered Chariot That walks
Found on Bruce Brennan’s Hippy gourmet blog
Also, Fish-n-Flush
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January 02, 2007
My Science Project
A moiré pattern is an interference pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes. (Many more interesting examples of Mathematical Modules at Oliver Knill’s site)
Unfortunate Science Fair Projects
Alexander Graham Bell and his giant ring kite (1920 National Geographic Magazine scan)
Frigits, the refrigerator marble toy (YouTube)
The art and geometry of folding circles by Bradford Hansen-Smith
From goalie mask to Wonderbra – 50 Greatest Canadian Inventions
Search over 7 million patents. With the new Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus. Update: A Slate's article
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December 12, 2006
The oldest known computer
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC.
Sometime before Easter 1900, Elias Stadiatos, a Greek sponge diver, discovered the wreck of an ancient cargo ship off Antikythera island. Sponge divers retrieved several statues and other artifacts from the site. The mechanism itself was discovered on 17 May 1902, when archaeologist Valerios Stais noticed that a piece of rock recovered from the site had a gear wheel embedded in it...
The device is remarkable for the level of miniaturization and complexity of its parts, which is comparable to that of 18th century clocks. It has over 30 gears, with teeth formed through equilateral triangles
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5MB Hard Disk in 1956. The first computer with a hard disk drive weighed over a ton
A PicoCricket is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music
From deep drilling for gas & paper currency to the wheelbarrow & the compass - 10 best inventions of the Ancient Chinese
By the way, I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt
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November 28, 2006
Lots of amperage
The largest superconducting magnet ever built, (Click for High-Res) in the Atlas detector at the Cern lab, has been powered up successfully. Engineers sent a current of 21,000 Amps round the coils. Atlas will analyze collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will recreate conditions just after the Big Bang.
More about the ATLAS experiment plus a video explaining it. There will be a test tomorrow. You can also visit CERN next time you are in Geneva
Photos of Plasma & High Voltage Sparks. (flickr set. Thank you, Richard Morrow)
Simplicity, new concepts from Philips
A moving stone bicycle. More from Japan: See-through Refrigerator
Medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. (From Barista)
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Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-brain
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October 29, 2006
R2 D2
The Official Website of the R2 Builders Club
Google periodic table of elements
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is located in the recently restored former headquarters of the U.S. Patent Office
Ever stuck your foot in one of those Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope? (From Scribal Terror)
How does an Etch-a-Sketch work?
Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. One of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Some guy built an elaborate Rube Goldberg Machine in his apartment. Re-post: incredible Japanese machines
A photo of a Plasma Lamp on wikipedia
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October 06, 2006
Robots on fire
= (Anagrams: "son of orbiter," "strobe of iron," "reborn if soot," "borne of riots," "orbit for eons," "sin for reboot," "best iron roof")
A flaming robot device that is lit at night - BurningMan 2000
Why not light a robot candle with robot safety matches?
Sandman is an 850-lb fire shooting performance robot. Also, re-post: The airplane-tossing fire-breathing Robosaurus
Fire-breathing retro-robot comic figure, by Mr. Hooper of Nashville, TN
A robot using himself as a cigarette lighter
Christian Ristow's robots destroy each other with fire on a regular basis
A two-headed fire-breathing robot bird
The robotic fire art of Heather Gallagher
Christian Bale as a fiery, melting cyborg. (Worth 1000)
Flaming inferno
Eliot K Daughtry’s Humanoid robot art
Moral of this story: when testing the shaving cream, take all the expensive electronics off the robot first. (With pictures!)
A new Japanese wine-tasting robot fires a beam of light into the wine, and then uses an infrared spectrometer to analyze the reflection. It studies the chemical composition of the wine and delivers an instant verdict about how good it is. (From Robots.net)
A robotic camera is taking a fish bowl for a swim
Murata Boy, the Robot that can Ride Bicycles, demonstrating gyro sensor technology
Crabfu miniature live steam engines
Also, How To Make Foil
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, and the third time that I’m doing it with eccentric scholar and "language fanatic" Craig Conley of strange and Unusual dictionaries who blogs at Abecedarian, and who provided most of today’s links. (All previous posts archived here.) Thank you again, Craig! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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September 02, 2006
Salt of the earth
Fluid Chains and Fishbones taken by professor John WM Bush
Watch as salt is transformed into awesome patterns by altering the sound waves
See where the Internet lives (Video). Take a tour of the data warehouse for the Web
Whisker Saver is called ash guard and it protects user against brush fires
I built a Potato Battery out of 500 pounds of potatoes. It powered a small sound system. (From Nancy Reyes)
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July 01, 2006
LdV: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
Ballista to hurl stones and all the many other invenzioni di Leonardo
Actual corporate branding
The complete Tom Swift Jr. home page. Tom Swift Jr is the name of one of the most fantastic scientific inventors of all juvenile literature. The series that he starred in appeared in 1954 and lasted for 33 books, finally ending in 1971. (From Rash)
The Laughing swing. It looks like a simple, regular swing. When you sit on it, it chuckles. As you swing, it laughs, and the higher you go, the harder it laughs
Science concepts explained in 60 seconds
Solar cookers, a possible solution for refugee camps. (From Idle Worm)
The Strawjet Project, developing alternative housing from surplus straw
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May 31, 2006
The Mark of the Beast
The number 666 is cool. Made famous by the Book of Revelation (Chapter 13, verse 18, to be exact), it has also been studied extensively by mathematicians because of its many interesting properties. Here is a compendium of mathematical facts about the number 666
Water Talkies How cool would it be to talk clearly underwater? Well now you can with these Water Talkies! Just place your mouth over the mouthpiece when speaking and your voice will be heard by everyone in the pool, up to 15 feet away. (From Everything And Nothing)
Looking for the art of your life? Can't find that unique personalized gift idea? Gene-Portrait creates a unique DNA digital image of your genetic world from a sample of your own DNA. Each DNA portrait is unique and holds no medical or legal value. (Thank you JL)
Intelligent Design - Only you can prevent gray goo
Patent#: US 7037243: Cordless Jump Rope
Looking for some Uranium Ore? Call United Nuclear "We specialize in small orders"
Does Viagra Keep Flowers From Wilting? (Too expensive)
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April 23, 2006
The Mobius strip
A Gateway to Higher Dimensions - A new book by popular science writer Clifford Pickover explores the weird world of the shape made famous by M. C. Escher
In the same vain, then: Möbius Beer, infused with taurine, ginseng, caffeine, and thiamine
Play with the one-sided nonorientable surface. How to make a Möbius strip
Animated Mobius Strip at “Optical Illusions, Etc.”
Wood carving blanks made from premium basswood. Knitted versions
Elsewhere: How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap
Microwaved Water - See What It Does To Plants. (From Presurfer)
The Cure for Information Overload, from Steve Ballmer to Linda Lovelace
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April 12, 2006
Computer-generated
Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display. Somehow similar, Hokey Spokes
Biff Boff – The Swedish Young Urbans play music on a Ping-Pong table. (Click on the 3rd screen to play)
Colorized images from electron microscopes
Incredible Machines a-la Rube Goldberg
Since the first cave man hurled the first rock at that first mouse, man has been battling his pesky nemesis. Thousands of years were to fly by before Baron von Trapp took time out from yodeling in the Alps to invent the infamous Mouse Trapp. Now, thousands of years after von Trapp, here’s the Mouse Catapult
HeadMaster Plus, a headpointing typing system for people with severe disabilities
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March 22, 2006
Rube Contraption
A virtual tour of the Lens Production at Carl Zeiss! (Click on “Production”. From Charlie “Vruba” Loyd)
An old collection of physics applets
An electronic archive of images of people proving theorems while wearing sarongs. (From Presurfer)
Taking it apart, a resource to be used by anyone who wishes to see - for any reason - how to take apart certain electronic devices
This is what happens when you put a Toothpick in a Microwave
Rube Goldberg contraption in Half Life 2. (Google Video)
More about Sipahh, the milk flavoring straw from Australia
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February 10, 2006
The Earth Is Not Moving
The Geocentrism Challenge. CAI will write a check for $1,000 to the first person who can prove that the earth revolves around the sun. (If you lose, then we ask that you make a donation to the apostolate of CAI). Obviously, we at CAI don't think anyone CAN prove it, and thus we can offer such a generous reward. In fact, we may up the ante in the near future
Turning the Bell Model 500 desk phone mobile. “Not only is it hands free, but the antenna is more then twice as far from my head reducing my exposure to harmful cell phone rays by a factor of four”
When I was in New Zealand, I read about the “Sipahh”, Unistraw’s Milk Flavoring System, and how they designed it from the ground-up to become a global brand. Interesting.
Compounds is a union of several polyhedra with common center. There exists an infinite number of ways to do make compounds. For example, Compounds: 6 Ih -> Oh. From Vladimir Bulatov's Polyhedra Collection
Harry Porter is building a computer out of relays. (From Myra y Calla)
Inflatable Concrete, the winner of the 2005 Saatchi & Saatchi World-Changing Ideas awards
From The Thomas Crapper Memorial Plumbing Poll - The History of Plumbing
GoDogGo, The Automatic Fetch Machine for dogs
How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery
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