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At Gizmodo Gallery 09: Freakishly Tiny Drill!
9:00AM Adrian Covert | The Tiny Drill serves absolutely no purpose. It doesn’t mean we don’t love it. Seriously, look how small the damn thing is! And it comes with it’s own case/holster that doubles as a keychain! More »
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Freakishly Tiny Drill Inspires Us To Believe Anything Is Possible In Life
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Man Makes 141 Rotations Hanging From a Power Drill, Sets Stupid World Record
5:40AM Sean Fallon | Here is the trick to setting world records—aim low and think of the stupidest record possible. Case in point—the record for most rotations while hanging from a power drill. More »
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Holy Sh*t Look At This Drill
3:40AM John Mahoney | Behold, the Hitachi DH50MRY. Part drill, part jackhammer, it can eat up concrete like balsa wood without killing your arms. Our friends at PopSci cut one open to show how it works. More »
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Spider Drill Piano Produces Symphony of Cacaphony
4:30PM Elaine Chow | Brazilian artist Paulo Nenflidio, who’s currently showing off his work in Arizona, creates weird noise-producing sculptures like this robot drill spider, which ends up sounding as frightening as it looks. More »
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Tooth Lasers Could Make Drilling a Thing of the Past
6:00AM Sean Fallon | For some people, just the sound of a dental drill is enough to cause panic–but the good news is that this barbaric procedure may be a thing of the past. UK researchers have developed a technology that spots tooth decay before it begins using a technology based on Raman spectroscopy–a method that is currently used to identify chemicals. A new study has determined that harmful bacteria can be detected by analysing how light is scattered when a laser is fired at the tooth. More »
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Hard Drive Crusher: How Much Would You Spend to Secure Your Data?
4:30AM Sean Fallon | We all know that sensitive data left on a discarded hard drive can be a security risk, but would you be willing to drop upwards of US$11,500 on a machine that ensures its destruction? EDR’s Hard Disk Crusher gets down and dirty by drilling through the hard drives’ spindles/rippling the platters to make data recovery impossible. The device runs off a standard 110V outlet, but if you are ever caught in a disk-destroying emergency and the power goes out, just bust out the optional US$895 hand pump accessory and keep on crushin’ in the dark. More »
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Man Uses Gun to Blow Hole in Wall for Satellite Dish, Kills Wife by Accident
5:30AM Adam Frucci | This is what tools are for, my friends. Ronald Long of Deepwater, MO, was trying to install a satellite dish in his bedroom. He was having trouble putting the necessary hole in the wall and, thinking himself quite clever, decided to use his gun to get the job done quickly. Unfortunately, his wife was outside and caught the bullet in the chest. She was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead on arrival. On the upside, Ronald now has DirecTV. Silver linings, people. [KCTV via Boing Boing] More »
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Russian Billionaire Buys World’s Largest Drill, Swears He Won’t Drill To America
4:20AM Wilson Rothman | The following is not the plot to an upcoming Bond film: Russian bootstrap billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich announced that his construction company, Infrastruktura, would spend US$160 million on the world’s largest drill. The drill, five meters wider than the current champ, built by the same German concern, Herrenknecht, would be used to improve the grounds around the Black Sea resort of Sochi, site of 2014 Olympics and favourite hangout of both Stalin and Putin. The company says it will not be used to drill a subterranean roadway from Far Eastern Russia to Alaska. Not yet, at least. More »
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