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The DRM Chair is designed to be used exactly eight times before the Arduino sensor monitoring the number of sittings tells the legs of the chair to ceremoniously fall apart.

The Socialmatic, designed to resemble the Instagram logo, will ship with a built-in printer (for printing out your own snapshots). Each photo will have a spot to write your own message, and will have a sticky strip on the back, much like a post-it note.

Times are tough. Tough enough that some people not only don't own any gaming consoles, but they don't have even own a TV that would allow them to even pretend they own a gaming console.

Novelty in the half shell. CHIA POWER! I'm pretty sure the Chia Pet was never actually "cool" per se. I feel like it was just something for a very bored generation to do. But the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Chia Pet is going to make growing plants out of sculptures cool for the first time ever.

This machine uses a CNC router bed, and Arduino RBBB, servo-powered grippers and a Dremel tool to completely decimate the cream of the Oreo cookie.

The Denver-based company RuMe has developed stickers to attach to your gadgets which have QR codes scanned onto them. When an honest bystander finds your device, they can scan the QR code and get all of the details about where to send the gadget.

And I thought my Honda Civic's nearly 40 mpg was impressive. Twelve years in the making, the incredible VW XL1 is capable of driving 261 miles on a single gallon of gas. That's the equivalent of driving from New York City to Hershey, PA for around $4.

This is why geeky dudes never leave the safety of their parent's basement. Because of the grip of terror instilled by the geeky woman who pursue us. Look at these damn things! Terrifying! Awesome... but terrifying!

You have to assume at the very least they have some amazing bamboo-based cuisine. Located in the Sichuan province of China (home to 30% of the world’s remaining panda population) this new panda-themed hotel offers a fully-immersive panda-obsessed experience. A stay at this panda retreat allows you to see such sights as hotel staff members dressed in panda costumes and rooms ...

Think of the possibilities! Think of all of the wonderful feats we could accomplish, only if rats could read each other’s minds! Think of all of the lost crumbs of cheese we could recover with all of the world’s rats working in tandem! Researchers at Duke University have developed a brain-to-brain interface which allows rats to communicate using only their ...