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The Bottlehead Crack amplifier. 

“This is what we call a Skill Level 1 kit, perfect for first time builders. The circuit is so simple you can build it in an evening or two. A simple circuit also means a low parts count, which keeps the price low, too. Crack is an output transformerless amp designed specifically for running higher impedance (100 ohms or higher) headphones like the many … Read More → "An audiophile headphone amp for $219 (but sounds much more expensive)"

“Today we are happy to announce a new product in the MakerBot Thing-O-Matic line, our new MakerBot Gen 4 Interface Board Kit v1.1! This is a fun DIY Interface that allows your to operate your Thing-O-Matic independently, without the use of a computer! So you can pop in your … Read More → "MakerBot interface board kit lets you print without a PC"

The rubber band gun can hold over 100 rubber bands and shoots 1 at a time as fast as you can crank it.  The gun comes off of the base so you can hold it when you shoot or just keep it on the base and shoot. This is definitely not your kid’s rubber band gun.

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Vestas recently revealed the details of its next generation dedicated offshore turbine. To ensure the lowest possible cost of energy this new machine boasts an entire 7.0 megawatts of power, and a rotor diameter of 164 metres. Quite impressive.

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“…with the technology we’re building, they should be able to just type (or say) into an app: “Compare the frequency spectrum for the crankshaft in gears 1 and 5″. Back on the server, Wolfram|Alpha technology will convert the natural language into a definite symbolic query. Then in Mathematica the model will be simulated and analyzed, and the results—quantitative, visual or otherwise—will be sent back to the user. Like a much more elaborate and customized version of what Wolfram|Alpha would do today with a question about a … Read More → "The natural language computer from Star Trek is not that far away from reality"

Retrobrad over at Bradprojects created this four player Pong coffee table and there are full instructions for making your own here at Intructables.

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At Google, employees get downloads of 523 MB and uploads of 147 MB. That’s per second.

via Techland

BBC news reports that 17-year-old Aseem Mishra won a a Young Engineer of the Year award for designing a pair of jeans that double as a drum kit.

Full story here.

See the jeans and Aseem in action here.

Scientists at NASA have found that cirrus clouds created by contrails from engine exhaust are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to cause a warming trend in the United States.

Image courtesy NASA Langley Research Center

“This enhanced infrared image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, shows widespread … Read More → "Contrails are worse than aircraft emissions for the climate"