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Primitive Technology : Natural Draft Furnace
Built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot
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Parallel Parking With Augmented Reality
Air Measure by Laan Labs is a free iOS app that employs augmented reality to use in place of tape measures, rulers and yardsticks in a variety of situations
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TIKKU, A Pre-Fabricated Micro Apartment Building
Tikku is a needle of urban acupuncture, conquering the no-man’s land from the cars and tuning the city towards the organic. Many Tikkus can grow side-by-side like mushrooms and they can fuse into larger
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Andy Serkis Gives Us the History of His Motion Capture Performances
Actor Andy Serkis, best known for his portrayal of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes films, sat down with wired to share the history of
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World’s First Floating Wind Farm
In the North Sea, energy company Statoil has finished the first floating wind farm in the world. Creating over 30 MW from five huge turbines, the Hywind Scotland wind farm is the first in
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Dubai Police Hoverbike
Although they can only hit speeds of 40 mph, they do have the advantage of reaching heights of 16 feet. These flying police cruisers are sure to fit in nicely with their more traditional
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Firing A Shotgun Shell Outside Of The Gun
From Youtube We test out a Fith Ops perimeter trip alarm to show what happens when a shotgun shell goes off outside the chamber of a shotgun
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See Through Suppressor in Super Slow Motion
Destin from Smarter every day films clear silencers in slow motion. It’s as awesome as it sounds!
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The Problem With Our Phones
From Youtube They are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don’t entirely recognise
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Adam Savage Explores the Science-Fiction Spacesuits of FBFX!
When Adam was recently in London, he visited the headquarters of FBFX, the makers of spacesuits for films like The Martian, Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant
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