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Power Generator Made At Home With Spare Parts

Power Generator Made At Home With Spare Parts

This is really awesome.  The home experimenter in the video makes a vertical turbine hydro generator system using a creek in his backyard.  His name is Mark and he was actually on the show “America Unplugged”.  He is kind enough to take us on a tour of his barn which he uses as an inventor’s garage

This New Sensor Can Actually See Through Walls

This is for real.  Science fiction is quickly becoming science reality.  This new sensor can actually see through walls. (Hint no James Bond stuff yet with spying capabilities but awesome none the less).  Here is the company that made it: The Walabot is a new 3D imaging sensor that can detect movement and speed, see

They Invented A Shaving Laser?? [video]

It sounds awesome…Goodbye to razor burn and say hello to (hopefully not laser burn) but new shaving + science awesomeness! This kickstarter project caught out attention.  The team at Skarp technologies have invented a razor that cuts only the hairs on your face.  They explain that there are properties in the human hair of all

One Wheel Hoverboard Looks Promising [Video]

Would you ride one of these?  Hoverboard Technologies has come out with an innovative version that may really start to catch on. This is a quick intro to the product: We may still be waiting for the first true hoverboards, but one firm says its single-wheeler feels so like hovering that it’s actually called the

Invisibility Cloak Can Make Things Completely Disappear Whoa!

this is AWESOME!! Science fiction is becoming science reality and a new nano scale invisibility cloak is making things disappear.  Here is an excerpt from this latest breakthrough: Invisibility cloaks are a staple of fantasy, but they’re also an ongoing field of interest to scientific researchers, who are continually working on ways to manipulate how

This System Absorbs Almost 100% Of Sound

Whoa…In case you wanted to absorb a lot of sound for some reason, they just advanced the technology to a whole new level (or lack of 😉 in Hong Kong: The new system developed by scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which is capable of absorbing almost all the sound that

Programmable Magnets Are Now A Reality

Apparently programmable magnets are here and their potential applications are incredible.  There is an inventive company making strides in this area and here is a bit more background on them: The many different North and South regions on a Polymagnet are defined using our software tools and magnetized with Correlated Magnetics’ patented magnetizing process. The precisely

Cool Tesla Style Coil Made At Home [Video]

This home experimenter and inventor takes a video of a Tesla style coil that he made.  Here is how he describes this device: Short video of completed Spooky coil with all 6 windings, per the design of youtuber smathewsauthor The 13 inch diameter toroid form is a big plastic slinky covered with tape and white

A Sports Car That Runs On Solar Energy Is Here

Finally a solar powered sports car is here!  No more wasting money on high octane gas and hopefully saving the environment too.  Here is more info on this invention: The Immortus is the brainchild of electric vehicle startup EVX, which is working on the vehicle with researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

3D Glass Printing Is Absolutely Hypnotic [Video]

They keep pushing the envelope of 3D printing and now with glass, things become hypnotic.  Mediated Matter Group and Glass Lab at MIT have outdone themselves.  Here is a brief history on glass crafts before watching the video: Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago.

3D Printer Prints With 10 Materials Simultaneously

Thi is the type of breakthrough in the world of 3D printing that will take consumer based applications beyond Star Wars Yodas into the next wave of disruption! 3D printing is great, assuming that all you need to do is print one material for one purpose, and that you’re okay with it taking a few

DIY Power Generator In A Backyard Creek

This is an awesome DIY vertical turbine hydro generator system made in a backyard.  Here is an intro to the video: As seen on “America Unplugged” on the sportsman channel. I rebuilt my 13 year old hydro system. Charges a battery bank that powers a inverter that runs two refrigerators. I added adjustable turbine height

Motorbike That Runs On Water? [Video]

The internet is abundant with stories of the water powered motor.  I would read cautiously although the video is intriguing and some major sites did publish the story: A motorcycle able to travel up to 500 kilometres (310 miles) on a litre of water was announced by creator Ricardo Azevedo in Sao Paulo, last month.

Lasers + Diamonds = Awesome!

Who knew that diamonds would help make some lasers way more powerful? Researchers from the MQ Photonics Research Centre joined with fiber laser experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, Germany to demonstrate a diamond laser 20 times more powerful than previous diamond lasers. Average power levels were less

Portable Private Islands For Sale

Would you want one?  This is far out, potentially cool, different, and only time will tell if this makes sense: In partnership with Amillarah Private Islands, guests have been given the opportunity to create something truly unique – a bespoke tailor made floating residence anywhere in the world, be it Dubai, the Maldives or New

This Segway Can Fit In A Bag…Seriously

Back in the mid late 90s to early 2000s some people might remember the much anticipated launch of the segway.  Jeff Bezos and other influential CEOs touted this as an incredible invention that could change the way cities are planned.  The inventor is Dean Kamen and he has been responsible for other innovative devices in

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