Halfbakery - a collection of half baked ideas
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My latest instrument, the fron2, on its first day out
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Students invent quieter leaf blower
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Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)
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The world's oldest hat shop that fitted James Bond
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Interview with Lanny Smoot
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Why the hovercraft's time might have finally arrived
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REVR plans to turn your ICE car into a plug-in hybrid for US$3,200
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Sewing machines are mechanical marvels – here’s how they work
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Why I spent three years designing a coat hanger
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A look back at some robotic inventions that didn't quite get there
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The inventor of glitter, Henry Ruschmann, also helped develop the atomic bomb
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I thought this rotating house was impossible
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Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking
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Incredible invention - this drone could change everything
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The nurse who introduced gloves to the operating room
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History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
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Janne Poranen: ‘If you have an invention, don't sell your technology too early to anyone’
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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Getting inked up? Thank Thomas Edison.
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Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
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An invention to counter IEDs
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The tempest prognosticator
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The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
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The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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The oral history of the Super Soaker
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Hedy Lamarr’s FBI files make no mention of her “Secret Communication System”
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Boutique and established cooperages around the country are trying to reinvent the whiskey barrel
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Peter F. Hamilton, author of The Commonwealth Saga, comments on how teleportation and other science fiction inventions would impact humanity.
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The surprisingly not totally boring search for who invented the spring bar
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