Katie Couric is looking for all kinds of helpful inventions that will
make her audience think: “Why didn’t I think of that?” You’d better
hurry up though, the open call for submissions closes on October 14th!
Want to watch an expensive, dangerous, and mesmerizing fireworks display in your living room? It’s easy. Just buy a plasma TV and then hook it up to 2000 volts.
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Johngineer from Adafruit has a deliciously geeky hobby: he takes amazing macro-focus photographs of electronic components. As geek porn goes, these images tick all the boxes.
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As someone who doesn’t know a lot about building electronics, I love learning about products that manage to teach the basics of the field. Bare Conductive’s Paint Pen is one such product. It’s a liquid wire that you can use to make simple circuits or electronic prototypes.
The ink also works as a solder or adhesive, meaning it can be used to repair circuit boards or attach parts to electronics. Adafruit Industries made a short video that provides a few applications of the pen:
You can buy the pen from ThinkGeek, Amazon, Adafruit Industries or from Bare Conductive itself. Price starts at $10 (USD). MIT also has a great article on conductive paint that also has links to instructions for making your own paint.
[via UniqueDaily]
With Wi-Fi devices we can watch our pets from afar, we can call them and tell them to come
home, and we can even play with them from a distance. Starting this
November, we’ll be able to feed them from wherever we are with Pintofeed, The Intelligent Pet Feeder. Our pets can now have virtual
owners….
Last week, an FAA advisory committee recommended
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Our mobile devices are our lifelines; when they die, we feel it. Keeping them charged (and operational) is thus a huge priority. Unfortunately, this isn’t always possible – one doesn’t always have access to an outlet.
Ravpower’s got a solution to that problem – the Dynamo-On-The-Go Power Bank.
Paul Allen – "The Idea Man" – has some lofty ideas brewing. The Microsoft co-founder’s latest venture is an institute which he hopes will expand the frontiers of artificial intelligence; this will also help him to explore his own fascination with the human mind.
A worthy cause, if ever I heard one.
Artificial Intelligence has made some downright incredible leaps and bounds over the past few years. It’s actually a little difficult to believe that only a few decades ago, the notion of a human-like, intelligent robot seemed wholly the realm of science fiction. Is that still the case?
Just how intelligent IS AI, really?
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, Valve this week announced the Steam Machine – a video game console which runs entirely on the new Steam OS. That’s not even the most interesting part, either – the OS is free.
Folks, this might be just what the console industry needs.
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