Draw any design you fancy with a laser pointer – and the laser cutter will do the rest
From Gizmodo: Tiny Rooftop Turbine Could Make Urban Wind Farms A Reality
There’s a reason that wind farms are placed offshore rather than in urban areas—the turbines are typically huge, difficult to erect, and need a solid sustained gust to produce any meaningful amount of current. This prototype, on the other hand, will assemble easily and take up little space as it quietly produces kilowatts atop skyscrapers. More »
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From Lifehacker: Outgrow.me Shows You The Best Kickstarter and Indiegogo Projects You Can Buy Now
Kickstarter and Indiegogo are great platforms for people to fund good ideas or projects, but navigating those sites to find the great projects amidst the thousands of others isn’t easy. So here’s Outgrow.me, which shows you only the successful products/projects you can pre-order or buy now. More »
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From Lifehacker: SoundGecko Converts Any Article Into an MP3 and Syncs with Dropbox, Drive, or an iPhone App
At its core, SoundGecko is a new webapp that’s essentially a text-to-speech transcription service. Drop a URL into SoundGecko and it converts the article into speech. On top of that it also integrates with cloud services and an iPhone app. More »
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From Gizmodo: This Is the True Color of the Black Sea
The Black Sea looks crazy right now, as you can see in this photo taken by the MODIS instrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on July 15. These intense swirls are the work of a microorganism called coccolithophore, a “calcite-shedding phytoplankton [that] can color much of the Black Sea cyan.” More »
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From Gizmodo: This Touchscreen Water Faucet Might Actually Be Good for Your Health [Video]
Ask most people what a water ionizer does, and not only will they probably not know, they probably won’t care. But ionizers like Tyent’s new 9000T, complete with a slick touchscreen display, can make your water even more healthy than it already is. More »
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From Droid Life: UK Judge Orders Apple to Post on Website that Samsung Did Not Copy iPad Design
We need some of these U.K. judges shipped over here as soon as possible. In a recent ruling, Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to place a statement on the official Apple website that Samsung did not ripoff Apple’s iPad design with their Galaxy Tab lineup. Apple’s lawyers did contest this at first, explaining that this is essentially promoting Samsung on their own site, but the judge incredibly dismissed the claim.
Along with the statement that will remain on Apple’s site for the next six months, they must also publish it in several UK newspapers and magazines to help Samsung’s overseas image. Booyah!
Via: CNET
Cheers Ryan and Matt!
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