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Kitchen Oil Fires Have Pretty, Weird Solution: Flower Fire Exinguishers
9:33PM Kit Eaton | Fire extinguishers are damn handy, but hard to get excited about—unless they’re cool flying ones—but these flower extinguishers from Japan should be weird enough to pique your interest. They’re magnetic, so you just whack them on a convenient surface, like the front of your fridge. And if you’re unlucky enough to get an oil fire on your cooking range, then you simply grab the flowers and fling them into the fire. You’re probably thinking “Fighting fire with flowers? WTF?” right now. The flowers work by melting to create a film over the surface of the burning oil, cutting off its air supply and extinguishing the fire. See the video of them in action if you don’t believe it. More »
Science
World’s Largest Fire Extinguisher Stands in for Fireworks, Does a July 4th Flyby
2:15AM Adam Frucci | No, this is not a Photoshop. It was taken on the 4th of July by Spencer Weiner of the LA Times, showing a firefighting airtanker dropping state-of-the-art fire retardant on wildfires in southern California. More »
Robots
Giant Robot Ready To Stop Giant Fires, Giantly
10:49PM Mark Wilson | Sure, it’s only a model of a dual-saw-wielding giant robot, but we can’t help but to admire one man’s vision of an autonomous future of fighting forest fires. The Forest Fire “Clear Cut” Robot (model) has 600 parts and took its creator 6 months to complete. What it represents is a tool prepared to slice and dice trees as necessary to stop the spread of flames in fictional, wilderness settings. Because remember, only you (and gigantic, badass robots with blades bigger than your body) can prevent forest fires. But it’s mostly on the robots at this point, honestly. Here’s a bonus pic: More »
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