Drills

Gadgets

A Drill Bit For Power-Cleaning Pumpkins

1:30AM October 19, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Not sure why, but the thought of gooping out all the slimy mess from inside a pumpkin makes me a bit queasy. This Halloween, I’m going to keep my hands clean and give this power-drill-propelled Pumpkin Gutter a shot. More »

Geek Out

Watch This Magical Machine Drill Square Holes

1:30AM October 15, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

I watch this video and I can’t believe this kind of sorcery is happening: a drilling machine in action, creating square holes. Instead of using a regular circular motion, this thing just quickly moves at different angles. More »

Science

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes The Ocean’s Deepest Holes

1:30AM July 13, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

If Land of the Lost taught me anything, it’s that cool things lurk just below the surface of the earth (and Will Ferrel is the greatest actor of his generation). That’s where the Chikyu Hakken Deep Sea Drill comes in. More »

Science

Fly-By-Wire Seafloor Drill Works 10,000 Leagues Under The Sea

1:30AM July 1, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Traditional deep sea drilling rigs are bulky, expensive, and need a relatively stable platform to operate, so they can’t work in rough weather. These next-generation drill systems, however, bypass the problem completely by setting up shop on the seafloor. More »

Gadgets

Does This Mean Power Drills Are Allowed In Classrooms Now?

5:40AM March 22, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Marketed as the “world’s first chuckable drill powered pencil sharpener”, C.H. Hanson’s $US7 Pro-Sharp Finishing Pencil Carpenter sounds much more scientific than it actually is. Just attach it to where you’d normally screw in the drill bits; whack a pencil in, and zooooooooom, off you go to sharper-pencils nirvana. And breathe! [Amazon via Notcot]

Cars

How To Change A Wheel Faster And (Almost) Painlessly

2:40AM February 22, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

If you ever got caught with a flat – how about that – you know how much it sucks to jack up your car, especially in the middle of a storm, which is when these things usually happen. More »

Gadgets

12 Old-School Dental Tools You Don’t Want Anywhere Near Your Mouth

5:00AM February 19, 2011 | Oobject.com

What’s worse than the thought of these diabolical dental devices from our friends at Oobject.com probing around my gum line? Clowns. I frickin’ HATE clowns! More »

Gadgets

Australia’s Top 10 Inventions: The Electric Drill

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9:38AM January 25, 2011 | Nick Broughall

To celebrate Australia Day this week, we’re looking at some of the best inventions to ever come out of our sunburnt country. Today, we pay homage to Arthur James Arnot, who used his knowledge of electricity to create the world’s first electric drill. More »

Science

Noise Cancellation For Dental Drills Will Make People Happy

2:30AM January 11, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

King’s College Dental Institute’s Professor Brian Millar thinks that his invention – a noise cancellation device that eliminates the unnerving sound of dental drills – will make people not fear the dentist. Really, Professor Brian Millar? Really? More »

Gadgets

Bosch’s Corkscrew Is One Power Tool I Wouldn’t Mind Using

10:20PM December 15, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It’s not even lunchtime yet, but already I’m dreaming of that first glass of vino collapso. What? It’s practically the holidays. Let me get on with my boozehound ways – preferably with this Bosch power drill-corkscrew-hybrid. More »