Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 7:22pm
Trampolines can be tons of fun, but with most of them there isn't enough room to try out anything truly spectacular.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 6:38pm
Just when you thought it was finally safe to go back in the water, along comes this robotic snake to creep you out in the pool.
Friday, November 23, 2012 - 3:36pm
If you celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, chances are you have a bunch of leftover food. Most of us expect to be eating turkey sandwiches for the next week, but what aboutall those fresh fruits and veggies that have a really short shelf life? This special impregnated paper could provide a solution.
Friday, November 23, 2012 - 2:34pm
Next time you see a hot looking store mannequin in the window of your favorite boutique, don't be so sure that it's simply there to entice you in. A new camera equipped mannequin from Italy means that it could actually could be checking you out, rather than the other way around.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 4:37pm
With all of the hoopla surrounding the release of Windows 8, you may have missed the fact that the Windows operating system itself has just turned 27 years old.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 2:12pm
With all of the panicked hoarding by Twinkie fans since Hostess announced the end of the line for the sugary snack, you may be wondering just how long that stash will last after the Twinkipocalypse.
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 5:44pm
Synesthesia is a condition some people have where their senses tend to influence each other. For example: the way food feels or looks can have an affect on the way it tastes. Designer Jinhyun Jeon wanted to see if there was a way to stimulate that process, so she developed this exploratory set of bizarre-looking cutlery.
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 11:34am
Keeping airport runways clear of birds is a major safety issue, so most runways in places with lots of avian activity have systems like sirens and recorded gunshots to try and scare the creatures away. This Korean laser-equipped robot vehicle looks far more effective, and would probably scare the crap out of most humans it encountered.
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 3:02pm
Scrabble is usually a pretty intimate game, played by bookish people who want to show off their command of English vocabulary. But if you're a competitor at the Prague Mind Sports Festival Scrabble Championship, the Scrabble world wants to study every word you lay down right as it happens.
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 5:22pm
Aircraft carriers have a really short runway, so to get the jets up to speed crews use special catapults to fling planes into the air. Now, Airbus is saying that we should be using similar technology with passenger jets, saving fuel while reducing noise for people who live near airports.
