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Comic about the invention of The Slinky
Over at Backchannel, Andy Warner's delightful comic about how a naval engineer invented The Slinky. (more…)
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Comic about the woman who invented the coffee filter
Over at Backchannel, comic artist Andy Warner's illustrated the story of Melitta Bentz, a German housewife who in 1908 invented the coffee filter. (more…)
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Ingenious pop-up shelter for people in wheelchairs
Under The Weather is a single-person pop-up shelter to sit inside that my big brother Rick came up with a while back. (He was sick of getting soaked at his kids' soccer games and was inspired by a...
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Listen to the nicest car horn ever
Former NASA engineer Mark Rober has invented a fancy in-dash car horn with three custom settings. The first one is sort of a swift and friendly 'toot, toot' for when your regular horn is too...
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This guy is grilling meat inside of a filing cabinet
Summer BBQ season is nearly here. Oh sure, you could pull out the ol' grill again. But, why be boring when a perfectly fine piece of office furniture is ready to be transformed into a multi-level...
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A 'Roomba' for weeds
The inventor of the Roomba robot vacuum, Joe Jones, has come up with something new: a solar-powered weeding robot called the Tertill. It will patrol your home garden daily looking for weeds to cut...
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Jet ski motorcycle
A friend was just telling me that jet skis are like motorcycles for water. Now here's a jet-ski... motorcycle. Some guy in the Netherlands put the shell of a Sea-Doo jet ski over a motorcycle and...
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Fancy high-tech water gun isn't for child's play
Tired of ordinary, janky water guns? Well, inventor Sebastian Walter of Munich, Germany has made something for you. He's shaking up the water gun industry with his high-tech Spyra One. He and his...
View ArticleAn overengineered invention to crack open eggs
Although properly breaking open eggs isn't as hard as they show in the video, people with certain disabilities might find value in The Q's "DIY Simple Egg Opener" (or this one which is already on the...
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Gadget solves first-world peanut butter problems
Having difficulties using a butter knife or rubber spatula to get the last ounce of peanut butter out of the jar? Or maybe you're sick of having your too-soft bread being ripped apart by peanut butter...
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One Foot Taller Periscope glasses
Designer Dominic Wilcox isn't short himself but sympathized with a woman at a concert who is, "I was standing at a gig and turned to see a small woman dancing away but unable to see the band. This gave...
View ArticleThis "Noggle" tube redirects A/C to your backseat passengers
If you have a vehicle that isn't fancy enough to have air conditioning vents in the backseat area, you might want to consider this totally tubular invention. It's called the Noggle and it was designed...
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This cereal sippy cup mixes in the milk as you drink it
Finally, an invention worth its weight in gold. The CrunchCup is a to-go cup for your cereal and milk. It's comprised of two cups; one for the cereal and the other for the milk. Each cup has it's own...
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A cereal bowl that amplifies the "snap, crackle, and pop" of your Rice Krispies
Be still my heart. There's a cereal bowl that lets you listen to the snap, crackle, and pop of your Rice Krispies! I'm just hearing about it but apparently the "Snap Crack and Pop Amplifier Cereal...
View ArticleVehicle outfitted with "shoes" to avoid crushing Christmas Island crabs
Each winter, millions of Christmas Island red crabs mass migrate from the rainforest to the sea to lay their eggs. While the roads are closed during migration season to protect the crustaceans, a...
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Inventor brings Mario Kart to real life with HoloLens AR technology
Ian Charnas, the inventor of those amazing windshield wipers that "dance" to your car's music, is up to yes good again (the opposite of "no good"). He's made a real-life Mario Kart video game using...
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Guy makes spooky zip line for distanced trick-or-treating this Halloween
The guy who made that beer-dispensing Adirondack chair in the shape of Michigan has invented something new and just as novel. Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks has created a zip-line system to...
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Bodum coffee grinder handle hack
They all laughed at me at the invention symposium (that I dreamed up in my head) when I showed them that it could be done! I installed a handle to my coffee grinder and emerged vindicated and...
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Ingenious toothbrushing contraption that uses a pendulum clock helmet
This ingenious toothbrushing contraption that uses a pendulum clock helmet deserves an award. It was created by Joseph of the Joseph Machive's youtube channel. To use it, you strap the cuckoo clock...
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Stamp licking machine powered by tears produced from cutting an onion
This stamp licking machine is powered by tears produced from cutting an onion. Joseph, the mastermind behind this creation, chops an onion and cries into a funnel. His tears are then transferred to...
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Joseph made a conveyor-belt machine that feeds users a 5 course meal
Joseph made a conveyor-belt machine that fed him and his friends a 5 course meal. I love the way it's built out of everyday household items such as a spatula, hammer and nails, dice, ect. One wouldn't...
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1936 device claimed to create dimples in users
The Dimple Maker was a device made by Mrs. E. Isabella Gilbert in 1936 which claimed to create and deepen dimples in users. Spoiler alert: the device did nothing at all for the creation or enhancement...
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Giant book on a toy biz giant
I was fascinated to dive into all 600 pages (!) of A World With Reality: Inside Marvin Glass's Toy Vault, Bill Paxton's monumental biography and history of the toy invention business. You know the...
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Watch: Inventor creating skates from kids' bikes
Watching Jake Carlini reminded me how challenging it can be to develop something new. This YouTuber and inventor went through several iterations before finally arriving at a functional model....
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Huge whirlygig crown powered by the wind and its wearer's movements
I love this person-powered whirlygig crown by Isabel + Helen. It features a tree-like formation of different sized whirligigs that spin when the wearer begins to walk. This wearable sculpture is...
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A fully operational bicycle with square wheels
What in tarnation?! Someone has gone ahead and made a bicycle with square wheels–and it works! That someone is an inventor on YouTube who goes by The Q. Watch this crazy thing in action. (Nag on the...
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Rick Stanley makes wildly inventive clocks
Rick Stanley is a clockmaker (and an artist, in my eyes) who makes beautiful and wildly inventive clocks. He makes clocks from all types of found objects that one wouldn't typically expect to see in a...
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Stroboscopic animation emerges from whiteboard drawing on spinning pottery wheel
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag) See the animation that emerges when Yohei Kisanuki (@limbatrip) starts drawing on a whiteboard on a spinning potter's...
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Turning a pickup truck into a giant dot matrix printer
In a new YouTube video, Ryder Calm Down, a creative technologist and software engineer, shows off a wild idea he came up with. He turned his pickup truck into a big printer that can write on the road,...
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The Ferris wheel: A look at its history, artistry, and enduring appeal
This CBS Sunday Morning video explores the history, artistry, and appeal of the Ferris wheel, the creation of "up-and-coming" inventor George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. Ferris had an idea to create a...
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