The City of Kwinana, south of Perth, has generated international interest for its drain socks. In March 2018, nets were …
Extracting water from the air
Whereas other commercially-available water generators rely on conventional air conditioning and dehumidifying technology to generate drinking water at rates ranging …
ZKZM-500 laser gun can sear flesh from half a mile away
The ZKZM-500 is a laser gun developed in China during 2018 by the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at …
Pepper picking robot – another human job gone?
Apparently this is one of those jobs that Americans won’t do…for the money offered. Enter Sweeper. Is this the future …
Loading the car with kids? Read this first.
(BPT) – For many parents, you buckle up your kids and off you go to day care, school or the …
Wait? What? Toilet paper tablets?
These toilet paper tablets are great for personal hygiene, cleaning up messes, first aid applications, even as an emergency fire …
Technician ‘Accidentally’ Fires Vulcan Cannon, Destroys F-16 on Runway
A maintenance worker accidentally fired a 20mm Vulcan cannon from an F-16 jet he was working on at Belgium’s Florennes …
CQ, CQ. CQ. Become a Radio Ham – for when the Sierra Hotel India Tango really hits the fan
A few years back I took the classes and sat the exam for my Level 1, Technician License through the American …
How do you feel about an embedded microchip to replace your wallet?
The small European nation of Estonia has started embedding microchips into their citizens’ national ID cards for the purpose of …
Paul Joseph Watson doesn’t like Robert De Niro much!
Here’s a couple of video from the UK’s equivalent of Alex Jones. Like his former boss, PJW was censored on …
Don’t get mad – get even. How to make a Bait Phone
So this guy turned his head in while sitting outside a coffee shop for moment and some lowlife stole it. …
Is the future six-stroke?
One of our regular readers tipped me off to the six-stroke engine and its potential for fuel efficiency and lower …
The Platform Economy explained – and why we need to keep the government’s mitts of it!
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is an important think tank battling meddlesome government, climate nonsense and cronyism. I am a big …
USEFUL: A Map Of Wireless Passwords From Airports And Lounges Around The World
From Anil Polat, a computer security engineer who obviously travels a lot, comes this useful map of WiFi passwords for …
Lava lamps secure 10% of the internet. (Yes, really.)
At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there’s a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They’re used to …
VIDEO: The worst driving habits. Is this you?
Scientists are still working on self-driving cars that eliminate human error and failings. Until then, the YouTube automotive experts at …
Fish-friendly micro hydropower turbine
Here’s a great idea. it’s inspired by nature, and delivers clean and decentralized energy at a low cost, without harming the …
Elijah the Inventor – You’ve heard of him, but you didn’t know it!
Elijah was born in Canada in 1843 to two fugitive slaves. He became one of the great innovators of the …
GAIA CREATES RICHEST STAR MAP OF OUR GALAXY – AND BEYOND
ESA’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and …
Robobirds! The scarecrows of the sky!
These robotic birds are like scarecrows in the sky. They can we used to keep real birds away from sensitive …
OMG! This is going to change everything. Facial Reenactment means we can’t trust anything
“Manipulating video with convincing reenactment.” This takes neutral video of a target and transfers expressions and words from an actor …
Special ‘pen’ detects cancer by touch
Is the pen mightier than the scalpel? Although a surgeon’s goal is to remove cancer in its entirety during excision …
Buckle up for the new passenger economy
(BPT) – A hundred years ago, few thought that the clunky automobile that broke down so often would ever replace …
Why Robots Will NOT Put Us Out of Work
A few weeks ago, we ran a piece that suggested robots would kick eight types of worker out of a …
Are Flying Cars Coming to the Skies?
Since the very first science fiction hit the shelves, the world has fantasized about flying objects. For nearly a century, …
VIDEO Survival Lily: How to protect your CAMP & FOOD from bears!
This is a really cheap way to secure your perimeter. It would give you the heads-up if a predator (animal …
Will calling 112 tell if that’s REALLY a cop car behind you?
There’s a post making the rounds on Facebook with an urgent message telling people that if you are pulled over …
CQ-CQ-CQ – Radio hams head for guano covered island
Are you a radio ham? That’s the slang for an amateur radio user. In the US you must pass a …
Millennia-old technique to make and keep ice in the desert.
Yakhchāl is Persian for ice pit and it’s an ancient type of evaporative cooler. Above ground, the structure has a domed shape with …