Glue

Science

This Bikini-Shaped Bacteria Produces Some Of The World’s Strongest Glue

6:30PM Yesterday | Andrew Tarantola

Remember the old Crazy Glue commercial where the guy suspended himself from his hard hat with just a dab of the adhesive? If he had been using the sugary compounds this bacteria naturally produces, he could have suspended a dump truck with the same amount. More »


Online

Piece Of Dried Glue Is Apparently Worth 1000s

7:20AM January 28, 2012 | Lily Newman

This glob of dried glue kind of looks like Homer Simpson. Kind of. The thing is that this insignificant blip in the scheme of humanity is about to sell on eBay UK for a metric crap tonne. It’s at £151,000 with two days to go. More »


Science

German Outbreak Caused By Mutant Super-Glue Producing Strain Of E. Coli

1:02PM June 3, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Europe is dealing with a widespread outbreak of food poisoning that has claimed the lives of 17 people. Those who are sick may have been infected with a mutant strain of E. Coli that produces a super-glue to make it extra deadly. More »


News

Accidental Inventor Of Super Glue Dead At 94

12:40AM March 29, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Most people don’t live to be 94. Most people don’t receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Most people also don’t invent, by accident, an extremely useful and widespread super-substance. Harry Coover, who died Saturday, did all these things. More »


A Bowl That Looks Like An Alien Egg

3:00AM October 11, 2010 | Casey Chan

In reality, it’s just a simple bowl made from cardboard honey comb and vacuum formed acetate. But in my mind, it looks like the shell of an alien egg. Imagine eating out of an alien egg. Mmm. More »


Heat-Resistant Glue Makes Buildings A Craft Project

9:38PM January 29, 2010 | AddyDugdale

So, una buncha de architectos have inventados a heat-resistant glue for erecciones, have they? (My real Spanish is pretty damn good, I’m just playing to the gallery, you understand.) Well, why am I not surprised it’s a Spanish invention? More »


Gadgets

Mcor Matrix 3D Printer Replicates Objects on the Cheap With Simple Paper and Glue

12:40AM November 8, 2008 | John Mahoney

3D printers are awesome. Feed them a computer model, and out comes a real object–often with complexity that is impossible to conjure into reality via any other means. Still blows my mind nearly every time I see one in action. Especially cool, then, is the Mcor Matrix, a 3D Printer that aims to keep cost of ownership at a minimum by using as its elementals regular office paper and a common water-based glue. This hand model, for instance, was produced for only €3.70 ($US4.73). galleryPost('3dprinter', 3, '');

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Cars

F-22 Raptor Airframes Falling Apart Due to Bad Glue

11:30PM March 28, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

According to a just-released Air Combat Command report, 30 of the F-22A Raptors delivered by Lockheed Martin use “inadequate adhesive” in their airframes. That means two things in plain language: bad glue; and big trouble.

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Weird Combo of the Day: Five Die Free With Gluce

10:00AM September 28, 2007 | Jason Chen

This has to be one of the weirder combos we’ve seen, but Ricardo sent in this picture of a tube of glue that comes free with a dice game in his Portuguese supermarket. We know whenever we have to do some home repair we always wish we had some dice to throw around, and we definitely know that whenever we’re playing dice, we wish we had glue handy. [Thanks Ricardo!] More »