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Ooooh! Circuit bending!

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This has to be the best wireless charger I’ve ever seen! You place the item to be charged in the ‘bird bath’ and watch the ripples of charge flow out. The level of the ‘water’ indicates the level of charge and when your device it fully charged the birds glow! Designed by Sun Kyung Kim this charger […]

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When you think of a computer keyboard it’s not really that exciting is it? It just needs to be a functioning method of transferring your key strokes, nothing special… Think again! I came across these while I was trawling the Internet in an effort to avoid working, procrastination is occasionally so worth it Optimus Tactus […]

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Panic over it’s just BMW’s concept car GINA “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptations”  (the ‘N’ stands for infinite)  

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Oh boy, I have to build me one of these!   Ever since I looked into vacuum tubes for my brief history of the IC chip I’ve been lusting after this clock. It’s made using nixie tubes, close cousins to the vacuum tubes that eventually led to the invention of the transistor and the development […]

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Just watched the Gadget Show and saw these guys, I can’t beleive that all they use are modded toys (Jason was cheating a little with the mixing desk and the ipad I feel ) Here’s a link to the performance http://fwd.five.tv/tags/gadget-orchestra/videos Their website http://www.modifiedtoyorchestra.com/index.php and a YouTube video explaining what they do… I think a […]

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I don’t know why but I found this stupidly funny

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AirPenguin

Just thought I’d share this as I think they are one of the coolest robotics developments out there: AirPenguin – autonomously flying robotic penguins With the AirPenguins, the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them “autonomous flight in the sea of air”. For this purpose, control and regulating technology had to […]