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In Soviet Russia, Chefs Will Use Lasers, Not Knives

In the future we may no longer need knives in the kitchen, at least not food prep knives. That is the idea behind the “Innnovative Laser Device for Cutting of Foodstuff” — entered by a Russian design student into this year’s James Dyson Award competition for problem-solving inventions.

28 December 2011

Science

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

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.

27 October 2009

Gadgets

Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself

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.

17 October 2009

Science

LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful

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.

15 October 2009

Science

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

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.

10 April 2009

Science

Gates, Myhrvold To Patent Crazy Electromagnetic Combustion Engine

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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