Weird and Wacky Engineering
GravityLight – What a GREAT idea!
Clive Maxfield
1/3/2013 11:03 AM EST
There are currently over 1.5 billion people in the World who rely on biomass fuels (mostly kerosene) for lighting once the sun goes down.
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green_is_now
Light by developed coutries with infrastructure like distributed power is not the same as the needs ...
That's strange – my clothes have shrunk!
Clive Maxfield
1/2/2013 4:38 PM EST
I think I must be the victim of some strange disturbance in the space-time continuum, because my clothes appear to have been shrinking over the past few months.
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bcarso
My boss for a while, Rich May, whose secret to being skinny was to smoke a lot, said to me one day ...
Decode your family’s genes for Christmas
Sylvie Barak
12/12/2012 10:00 AM EST
Unwrapping presents is cute, but outdated. For a modern Christmas twist, try cracking your genetic code.
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rpell2
I have several family members who have tested at Family Tree DNA and they have never been asked to ...
Clive Maxfield
12/4/2012 1:16 PM EST
I remember one day when my friend Carl brought a lie detector to our junior high school…
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zooglen
Reminds me of the story in which the police were interrogating a known criminal at the police ...
Clive Maxfield
11/27/2012 3:55 PM EST
Sometimes you need a laugh... and these videos make me laugh out loud!
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ErinM
Re: How could the guy keep a straight face? I think he had practice. If you watch the Chrysler ...
Urban Air – Bamboo billboard "gardens in the sky"
Clive Maxfield
11/21/2012 12:10 PM EST
It's easy to get sucked into the Kickstarter vortex if you aren't careful. Every time you visit the site there is something new to peruse and ponder…
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Clive Maxfield
11/20/2012 1:58 PM EST
Specially engineered for children. Has a lower voltage output and smaller barbed spikes than the popular adult model compliance tool.
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Max the Magnificent
LOL Plus you can catch a lot of gray hairs from them :-)
Clive Maxfield
11/12/2012 4:02 PM EST
Back in the 1950s, the Radio Hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20 mile (32 km) radius.
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Ghery
"me and my engineering chum Rick Curl" My schoolteacher wife would cring. Does anybody proofread ...
Geek Hat competition at Design West 2013
Clive Maxfield
11/9/2012 12:01 PM EST
How exciting! I just heard that there is to be a Geek Hat competition at the Design West 2013 Conference and Exhibition.
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DR.PAUL
very good useful article
Hobbit safety video from Air New Zealand
Sylvie Barak
11/1/2012 1:06 PM EDT
As you embark on your long and exciting journey to New Zealand, you’ll be happy to know that a great adventure awaits you on board, in the form of a particularly well made Hobbit themed safety video, just in time for the big film’s release.
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Duane Benson
Seeing this, in part, inspired me to re-watch the three LOTR movies. I have a lot of respect for ...