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Giz Explains: What Do Those Mysterious Lumps On Your Cables Do?

6:30AM December 28, 2011 | Rachel Swaby

You have some sense of what the wires going to and from your computer do. Some bring power; others transmit information from one device to another. But some of these cables look a bit…off. More »

Gadgets

Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself

6:40AM October 27, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Tesla’s Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit connected to a computer sound-in jack to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. As you will see, it creeped the hell out of Tesla himself. More »

Science

LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful

2:40PM October 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »

Science

Table-Top-Sized Black Hole Created, World Mysteriously Still Exists

8:00PM October 15, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Scientists have created a table-top-sized black hole that absorbs light. And yet we’re still here, and the world hasn’t collapsed. Clearly, my high-school science classes did not adequately explain black holes to me. More »

Science

Gates, Myhrvold To Patent Crazy Electromagnetic Combustion Engine

6:40AM April 10, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he’s got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang—to patent a smart engine with electromagnetic pistons.

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