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Dean Kamen, noted brilliant and sometimes crazy inventor, has patented a new design for inflatable wind turbines which can double as illuminated advertising billboards.

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More here at New Scientist and Read More → "Dean Kamen patents light-up, mobile, inflatable wind turbines"

Atmel and Arduino have announced a cooperative effort to produce three new AVR and ARM-based dev platforms debuting at the Atmel-sponsored Arduino Pavilion at Maker Faire located in Queens, New York, September 17 and 18, 2011.

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It looks like a giant piece of biscotti covered with gold foil and pipe cleaners. But it’s really a decommissioned weather satellite the size of a bus that NASA says will probably fall to Earth by Friday, oh, give or take a day.

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Every parent wants the best for their child, and so it’s not terribly surprising that James Law might ask for his to receive the honor to the carry torch in the 2012 London Olympics. The only thing is that Law is a scientist and his “child” is a robot. 

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This is either completely cool or the act of two people who have way too much time on their hands, but either way I’ll never look at an Exact-o blade the same way again.

Designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann have painstakingly re-created a range of retro devices with meticulously sliced paper — including a Game Boy, a Polaroid camera and a Walkman. The French duo behind design studio Read More → "Design Duo Re-Creates Classic 1980s Devices Using Paper"

TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference this year might have been most notable for the forced departure of Michael Arrington from the blog he founded, but the conference remained a platform for arrivals of new companies, eager for venture capital, new users and eventually riches.

It’s always professionally treacherous to predict which startups will take off, but here’s our favorites from the conference. Take it more as a suggestion of some things to try out, not as a cheat sheet for eager angel investors.

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Panasonic’s Evolta robot doesn’t look like your typical top athlete. The little green and white guy can stand on the palm of your hand. He runs on rechargeable batteries.

The 7-inch-tall humanoid is also very ambitious. He is taking on Hawaii’s famous Ironman Triathlon course, a competition that leaves many human athletes in the dust.

The athletic Evolta already climbed the Grand Canyon, survived 24 hours of Le Mans, and& … Read More → "Panasonic’s Evolta robot will tackle grueling Ironman triathalon"