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This is the conceptual Ouija board rug and coffee table imagined by Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geek Ideas. Pretty clever.
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London-based developers Cathedral Group enlisted the star-studded talents of 20 top UK architects and firms to make a custom dollhouse for an upcoming auction benefiting Kids, a charity dedicated to disabled kids and their families.

The results are an interesting mix of concept and practice. Well-intentioned design thinking and problem solving—how to … Read More → "14 awesome dollhouses built by today’s top architects"

UK-based artist Camila Sitarama Carlow sculpted human organs out of wild plants in her sculpture series “Eye Heart Spleen”.
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At a TED talk in Ojai, Calif., Behrokh Khoshnevis, the director of the Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Southern California, said nearly 1 billion people in the world don’t have access to adequate shelter, a situation that breeds poverty, disease, illiteracy, crime and overpopulation. To address the situation, Khoshnevis is developing a process known as Contour Crafting to use  3D printing technology to build … Read More → "The printer that can print a house in 20 hours"

Kids interact with Play-i’s robots, Yana and Bo, by giving them instructions. This can be through a tablet or smartphone, where they can drag and drop a sequence of commands. “As they do this, we can begin to introduce some other basic elements of coding, like the concept of loops, or an ‘if this than that’ instruction,” says Gupta. Bo, which can play music … Read More → "Can a toy robot teach kids computer programming?"

These are a handful of giant dinosaur skeletons carved entirely from pumpkins. Apparently they were all on display at The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York in recent years. They do a dinosaur section every year though, so this year they have even more.
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This robotic cane is the future of navigational canes used by visually impaired people. Dr. Cang Ye, a roboticist at the University at Arkansas at Little Rock, led the engineering team that developed it.

The Co-Robotic Cane (CRC) has a camera and a laser detection and ranging system that detects objects in the user’s path. It warns the user through the earpiece. The roller tip on the … Read More → "An autonomous, self-steering robot cane for the blind"

British engineers have taken inspiration from dolphins for a new type of radar that could help detect roadside bombs more easily.

The device sends out two pulses instead of one, mimicking how dolphins pinpoint their prey.

The twin inverted pulse radar (TWIPR) can distinguish between the electronics at the heart of an explosive and other “clutter” such as pipes or nails.

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Researchers have developed software that could let you measure your pulse using nothing more than your earphones and a smartphone. The tech measures the air pressure in your ear canal, taking advantage of the seal made by earphones. As your arteries pump blood, it causes tiny movements in your eardrum at a frequency of about 1Hz. Using the earphones’ speaker as a microphone, the software … Read More → "Your headphones could be used to measure your pulse"