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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December 13, 2005
Wow!
Like the wooden clocks below, here’s a mechanical ass chewer on eBay - You must watch the 2 videos on loud, and see all photos at the bottom of page!
This is a Hand Carved kinetic sculpture; Made from American Black Walnut. Height of the "Mechanical Ass Chewer" is just above 5' tall.
Perfect for: Parents of teen agers, Managers with high production quotas, Law Offices, or anywhere where additional motivation is needed.
This is a Brand New, Completely Hand Carved, #15 from the Artists Lot of A very limited supply. This is your exclusive chance to own an intricately designed device which caters to a broad range of uses, including Abstract Art collectors, Humor Connoisseurs and seekers of Stress Relief devices. (From quonsar)
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December 09, 2005
Bogus Science
A One Dollar Compound Microscope. In this article, they describe the construction of a very simple low-cost compound microscope
Illinois Gear Collection. A set of 15 models built by the Illinois Gear & Machine Company of Chicago that was acquired by Cornell University
Reflect-A-Sketch. Unique drawing tool is a fun way to develop children's artistic talent
Replace all the elements of the periodic table with photographs of the letters that represent each element
Pimped Out Megaphone Helmet
Gigantic QTVR's from Inside a Wind Tunnel. (From ”Hippo Blog”). Also, QTVR of Large Hadron Collider at CERN
The Birdman of Lincolnshire. I have for the past 30 years been developing a machine that will enable man to fly like a bird
Did Al Gore invent the Internet, or did he claim to do so? Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf clarify in a forwarded message dated 28 Sep 2000
The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science. (From ”Presurfer”)
Alex Steinweiss, the man who invented album covers
By the way, my friend Jeff Abbit The Average is a talented magician in Orange County, California. I met him a few years ago doing a hilarious sidewalk show outside a coffeehouse in Brea. If you want him to entertain you & your party this holiday season, give him a call and get some details. He is still available for Sat. Dec. 17th and New Year’s Eve
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October 22, 2005
Dis-organized knowledge
Old telephone conversion. When my friend Ang recently told me about a rotary cell phone on Slashdot, I decided it was finally time to get my butt in gear and put this page. This documents a project I did last summer involving the upgrading of an old plastic push-button telephone to the cellular age
Watch this beautiful .wmv, exploring the effects of time-varying magnetic fields on ferrofluids
A Chinese schoolgirl has invented a pair of shoes that enable her to walk on water. I had exactly the same idea about 7 years ago. I called it The “Walk-ons”
Jumpsuit for a Woman and Method of Use. Patent #: US 6944883
Physics Simulation with Java from “My Physics Lab”
Deafness in Disguise. Concealed hearing devises of the 19th & 20th centuries
I/O brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside
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August 26, 2005
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people
W.T. Wallington's The Forgotten Technology. This retired carpenter is constructing a Stonehenge Replica by himself, without any high-tech equipment. See the Video
Rob Cockerham’s Power Harness. (One of Cockeyed.com Extremely Classy Historical Gallery of eBay Curiosities)
Official Letters Patent: 1850 – present. The official certificates for patents granted by the Patent Office have changed over the years
US Patent No. US00808897 granted in 1906 to Willis H Carrier, for the invention of “Air Conditioning” – One of Gallery of Historic Patents
Air curtains, or “Energy Saving Air Barrier”. (From a discussion of Why stores turn on the AC full blast)
The new Gen Pets
Troy Hurtubise is an inventor and conservationist noted for his bizarre, yet functional, protective creations that he tests on himself in incredible and at times dangerous ways. Examples: Firepaste, Angel light & God light
Inventor of the Week Archive at Lemelson-MIT-Program
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July 17, 2005
Swimming in syrup
More close-up photos of the World's Largest Digging Machine:
• The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)
• Weight is 45,500 tons (that's equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long)
• It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million
• Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute
• Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day
It's a question that has taxed generations of the finest minds in physics: do humans swim slower in syrup than in water? And since you ask, the answer's no
The Cloaca machine art project - A Human Masterpiece. Read the testimonials. Thank you, Michael
A Brief History of Computing - Computing related quotes
Patent Room. The art of industrial design
Like a fish. An Israeli Inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing underwater without the assistance of compressed air tanks. This new invention will use the relatively small amounts of air that already exist in water to supply oxygen to both scuba divers and submarines
Lindsay’s Books . Quality books, new and old, for experimenters, inventors, tinkerers, mad scientists, and a very few normal people..
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June 12, 2005
Eureka
A timeline history of the IMB IBM Typewriter with old ads
Newly released color film of Albert Einstein in his garden in Princeton
Do not try this at home: How to Extract DNA from Anything Living
An unrivalled collection of scientific and didactic instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries. The patrimony consists exclusively of instruments used in the Physics Cabinet of the University of Coimbra since its origin in 1772
Cartbike Building Misadventures
The SpringWalkerTM body amplifier is the first of a whole new breed of vehicles -- it's got legs. (Thank you, Michael)
The art and geometry of folding circles by Bradford Hansen-Smith
The little snail that could - a group of Israeli geeks had proved that snails can be faster than ADSL and pigeons
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April 17, 2005
Engines of Ingenuity
Minnesota's greatest invention! Twenty-Five Years of Post-it Notes by Greg Beato
Top 10 Reasons Chainless bicycles Are Better
3D-XplorMath Surface Gallery. (3D-XplorMath is a mathematical visualization program for Macintosh computers)
Pavlov conditioning and some new inventions by Mark Stivers
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. 1990 episodes available
On closer inspection. Images & videos of photomicrography. (From Dave Krooshof)
Patent No. 4,320,756 for Fresh-air breathing device and method. Click on "Images" for diagram
Also, Tail-Activated Urine-Incorporation of Nitrogen Extender system: Spray switch in tail aims to reduce nitrogen-leaching! (From ”Rest Area 300M”)
Kurzweil AI dot net, big thoughts of today's big thinkers
The Great Idea Finder, a huge resource. Did you know that Henri Nestle is the inventor of baby formula?
Making the rounds: From “New Scientist”, Life's top 10 greatest inventions: Multicellularity, the brain, the eye, sex, language, death, more
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March 19, 2005
Half-baked ideas
Animated Math GIFs. (Showing here is “Rule 150”, one of the elementary cellular automaton rules introduced by Stephen Wolfram in 1983. No idea how it works)
Features of SimpliSqueeze® Closures. How that new Heinz bottle works
Antique light bulbs exists for the purpose of sharing items from my collection through pictures. Such items include antique light bulbs, early radio tubes and box art, Geissler and Crookes discharge tubes, x-ray tubes, Aerolux figural neon glow lights, vintage Christmas lights and more
The Cathode Ray Tube electronic glassware site.
Over 775 inventions and ideas of science fiction writers, from Artificial intelligence to weapon systems. (From ”Bohemian Rhapsody in blue”)
Make a Duct Tape Wallet (Found on the Canadian 3M site)
Halfbakery’s Recent 3 half-baked ideas for major categories. For example, currently in the food category: Unhappy meals, alcohol in a candy bar form & really fast food
The website, cyber-library and discussion forum dedicated to automatic clothes washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, collectors of antique and vintage Automatics, as well as anyone who likes to do laundry and dishes
Making the rounds: Shredding demonstrations.A movie gallery of actual shredding; from the ordinary but tough, to the surprising
Top 100 gadgets of all times. (Top 3: Sony Walkman, 1979, Zenith remote control 1956 & Apple Powerbook 100, 1991)
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