5 High-Tech Steps to Making the Easiest and Fastest Thanksgiving Dinner Ever
Credit: Waring Pro Thanksgiving dinner has long been an all-day affair. But, we’re living in very different times than the days of the earliest feasts, when just cooking meat on a spit over a fire...
View ArticleCan This Water-Recycling Shower Save $1,000 in Bills?
Credit: Orbital Systems Ireland is one of those rare places where it seems like clean water flows with abundance. But that’s all about to change as the government has recently begun installing...
View ArticleThis Device Lets People Video Chat With Their Pets
There are “pet owners” and then there are “pet parents.” For the latter, there isn’t an effort to a great or a price too high to make their little ones feel like part of the family. Over the years,...
View ArticleThis Wheel Turns Your Bicycle Into An Electric Hybrid
There’s a reason why big city mayors like New York’s Michael Bloomberg have pushed hard for the widespread adoption of bike sharing programs. Getting people to collectively start pedaling, instead of...
View ArticleInventing the Perfect Umbrella
Umbrellas shield people from the rain, but the current design is far from perfect. They fold down into soaked, dripping messes, crumple when hit by powerful blasts of wind and fail to safeguard us...
View ArticleReinvented: Futuristic Toilet Extolls the Health Benefits of Squatting
Credit: Pierre Papet Innovation, fundamentally, has been about the new and improved. But some recently introduced ideas take us back to an older way of doing things, reversing technological...
View ArticleSwitching to This Flat LED Light Bulb Could Be an Easy Resolution to Keep in...
Credit: Philips At the beginning of 2014, the incandescent glow that has lit American homes for over a century will be dimmed, as the U.S. government halts the production of conventional 60- and...
View ArticleScientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Out of all the clean energy options in development, it is algae-based biofuel that most closely resembles the composition of the crude oil that gets...
View ArticleCheers! Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks, Senses When You Need a Double Shot
Credit: Barry Givens In October, I wrote about an expanding chain of semi-automated restaurants in Japan that feature various sophisticated technologies to allow customers to order dishes, refill...
View ArticleThis Self-Cleaning Plate May Mean You’ll Never Have To Do The Dishes
Credit: Tomorrow Machines It’s an almost immovable mess, that dreaded sinkful of piled-up bowls, plates and utensils that’s often a major point of contention between spouses and roommates. If only...
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