Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 9:40am
To many people, summertime means one thing: cooking outdoors. When the weather is warm, there are few pleasures greater than grilling a slab of meat over an open flame. But what if you want to do it in a classier...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 2:41pm
How many students does it take to program a robotic arm to serve ice cream? 26, it seems, who spent five weeks to do it. That's time well spent in my book. "Project: Ice Cream" went down at Ohio Northern...
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 12:18pm
Some people want chandeliers worked over with precious metals, ornate carvings or layers of stained glass. Artist YaYa Chou, whose inner child is wholly intact, went for a chandelier covered by strings of Gummi Bears instead. Amazingly, the whole setup...
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 1:55pm
The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan earned "The Robot Award 2008" for its automated rice planter, which can work a field all on its own without the help of humans. As is usually stated, Japan faces...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 12:16am
In the still overtime-obsessed offices of recession-plagued Japan, living at your desk just got a little easier courtesy of Thanko's new Hot LunchBox Pouch. The USB pouch easily connects to your desktop PC and warms anything up to the size...
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:18am
The next time the little kid in your life misbehaves you might want to show them a picture of Nitto Kagaku's Kami Kami sensor and watch them straighten right up. Looking like something out of the torture chambers of the...
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 8:43am
For most food items, sealing them up in a Tupperware container is fine and will preserve them for a decent amount of time. But what if you're just crazy about food preservation? What if you're looking to eat your leftovers...
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 1:06pm
Japanese weight loss site Metaboinfo.com has an interesting way to help you stay on target — a virtual wife that'll nag you to death. The free service of the site offers you one of four wives to choose from...
Monday, September 1, 2008 - 6:14am
We've seen (what previously we thought were) some amazing refrigerators around here — even high tech magnets — but this new chill box by Hitachi still has us raising an eyebrow. It sprays your goods with vitamin C, which...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 7:39am
You aren't still using a pizza cutter to slice up your pizza, are you? That is so 20th century. We're living in more exciting times these days, times in which we don't need stupid blades to cut our food....
