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Science

Why Diet When You Can Pump Junk Food Out Of Your Stomach?

Losing weight is tough. You have to eat healthier, start exercising and just stop being such a lazy, horrible slob. Unless you get a pump that literally sucks food out of your stomach and replaces it with water after the fact. Talk about enabling.

31 May 2011

Science

NASA’s Finger-Sized Pump Cools Tiny Spaces

This little pump will be sent off on a rocket mission in June to test whether it can survive the vibration of being blasted off, and if it’s well equipped to cool down ducts.

10 May 2011

Science

World’s Largest Water Pump Moves 15 Swimming Pools Per Minute

The Mississippi River has been pretty pissed off lately. And it’s because of natural disasters like this that they’re building the world’s largest water pump in New Orleans.

15 November 2010

Gadgets

Parasite

Nothing says “asshole” quite like this parasitic bike “emergency pump” from Instructables user Aleksi. Need some air? The local public parking lot is your oyster. [Lifehacker's Evil Week via Inhabitat via MAKE via Boing Boing]

12 June 2010

Hurricane Disasters To Be Avoided With Bill Gates’ Ocean Pumps

Bill Gates, since leaving the helm of Microsoft, has been busy ploughing his money into well-deserved environmental issues such as the artificial clouds project, and ocean pumps which could (almost) halt hurricanes in their tracks.

11 March 2010

Science

Absurdly Simple Ocean Pumps Could Thwart Hurricanes

In yet more research funded by Bill and Melinda Gates, Stanford University’s Ken Caldeira explores a mechanically simple ocean pump that could significantly diminish the power of a hurricane.

19 February 2010

Breast Pumps Are The Vital Ingredient In Drink Mixing Robot

Not content in just making a drink-pouring robot, the guys at Evil Mad Scientist wanted to make a drink-mixing robot. You know, so they can charge more.

19 August 2009

Science

World’s Biggest Water Pump Under Construction In New Orleans

The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on a serious construction project: a 570,000-litre-per-second, $US500 million pumping station charged with keeping the city of New Orleans a little, uh, dryer than it has been in the last few years.

31 January 2009

Gadgets

Playpumps Trick Kids Into Doing Manual Labour for Fun

The Playpump looks like a piece of playground equipment, but it’s really a disguised pump for getting water out of the ground. As kids play on it, water is pumped to a nearby tank.

20 December 2008

Gadgets

Gas Gripper Rests Your Forearm Muscles At the Pump

It’s rare to find a pump that doesn’t have a latch to lock into the “on” position, but if you find one, the Gas Gripper will keep you from overexerting your forearms while filling up.

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