Soldering can be a really tricky thing to master. Between having to have a clean workspace, a nearby electrical outlet, and a huge risk for burns, it sometimes feels like an accident waiting to happen. Luckily, there is a project that is easy, fun for the entire family and solder free. The Snap Circuit Rover allows you to easily snap ...
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Quickies: MIT’s Post-It Notes On HGH
Seems the brains up in Massachusetts have done it again. MIT has taken an ordinary household object and transformed it into the coolest experimental toy on the planet. Case in point are Quickies, which are essentially Post-It Notes that feed the written information on them back to a computer. The computer then interprets the text or image drawn on the ...
Read More »There’s A Party In My Mouth: An Oral Extravaganza
For a moment we thought that Julia Roberts was finally allowing spectators to tour her gigantic pie hole, but now it sees as though we were misled. This gigantic mouth is actually a a new attraction at Corpus, a half-amusement park, half-museum in Amsterdam, which recently opened up a their interactive feature which allows visitors to explore large models of ...
Read More »You Might Be A Redneck If Your Front Yard Resembles Earth’s Outer Limits
And to think that humans have only been in space for half a century. The European Space Agency has released images showing all of the junk we have orbiting the planet. Space litter, if you will. Circulating the globe right now is about 6,000 satellites, only of which 800 are still operational, not to mention tons of other crap left ...
Read More »Elementeo: The Chemistry Card Game That Blinds You With Science
Every single object in our universe is composed of an infrastructure of elements, yet many children are not retaining the information which tells us the building blocks of the universe. Elementeo is a card game created by a 14-year old whiz kid, hell bent on teaching chemistry in an effective and fun fashion. Much like games such as Magic: The ...
Read More »Stellar Movement Time-Lapse Shows The Beautiful Path Of The Stars
Ever wish you could stare up at the sky and see the stars move, without having to track one specific star for hours on end? This excellent time-lapse photo shows the movements of the stars through a full night, and we don’t mean in some artsy-fartsy design sort of way. The finished product looks like a tunnel or worm hole ...
Read More »The Future Of Leather Spares The Life Of Cows
Shown as part of the Tissue Culture and Art Project at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, this new Victimless Leather shows that animals don’t need to be harvested for textiles, but they are still equally tasty if I might say so myself. Mmm, cheeseburgers. The project’s goal is to attempt “artistically exploring and provoking notions relating to ...
Read More »MindMentor: The Robot Psychologist
A lot of people are very skeptical about seeing a psychologist to discuss their problems. A huge part of the skepticism is probably due to the fact that other psychologists are other humans. Who really feels comfortable talking about their juiciest problems with a fellow human? Developed by two Dutch psychologists specializing in Neuro Linguistic Programming, the MindMentor is programmed ...
Read More »Bee’s Project: Cancer In A Glass
It’s known around the science community that trained bees are known to be able to sniff out such ailments as forms of cancer, the common cold, even pregnancy (an ailment to some.) The Bee’s Project incases the yellow jackets into hand blown glass objects, where the insects can smell and hover over your saliva, telling you of all of the ...
Read More »Avalanche On Mars Could Mean The End For Bigfoot
Remember that poor Bigfoot-looking Mars Man we told you about? We are currently fearing for his life as NASA has released new images that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted. It seems as though Mars isn’t as inactive geologically as previous thought, as avalanches on the surface of the planet have been spotted. Does this mean that our Martian buddy is ...
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