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FDA Approves Laser to Battle Baldness

February 17th, 2007 at 11:20 pm » Comments (0)

The Florida maker of a hand-held laser device designed to promote hair growth in balding men says it has been has been approved for sale by U.S. regulators.



Robotic Subs

February 17th, 2007 at 11:13 pm » Comments (0)

Innovator Bill Stone plans to drop one of the world’s most advanced underwater robots into the deepest hole on Earth. If all goes well, this thing just might help get him to the moon.



World’s Smallest Hard Drive

February 17th, 2007 at 11:01 pm » Comments (0)

World’s smallest hard drive (and it’s 8GB). 



Girl with Two Heads

February 17th, 2007 at 10:53 pm » Comments (1)

Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel were born on 7 March 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States and they are dicephalic conjoined twins. (w/pics)



The Automated Parking Garage

February 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am » Comments (0)

The most expensive parking is the parking we don’t have. Not that long ago, when cars were less plentiful and inner city space was moreso, the major expenses of driving were depreciation and running costs.



Giant Human Hamster-ball

February 17th, 2007 at 11:00 am » Comments (0)

Virtusphere is a giant, human-sized hamster-ball on rollers that stays in one place as it spins.



World’s Largest Community Drawing Experiment?

February 17th, 2007 at 9:25 am » Comments (0)

Drawball is a site that allows anyone to draw whatever they wish on a large virtual “canvas”.



Students Build Coffin For Dying Teacher

February 17th, 2007 at 9:12 am » Comments (0)

A Dutch primary school teacher has a strange and poignant final project for her class…



Babies Form Memories, but Forget Them

February 17th, 2007 at 6:51 am » Comments (0)

Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It’s just that babies also forget.



Turbochef Speedcook Oven and the 45 Minute Turkey

February 17th, 2007 at 6:39 am » Comments (0)

The international builder’s show just went down, and among the home automation madness, it was impossible to miss this oven’s claim that it can cook a 12-pound bird in 45 minutes. That’s 3 hours faster than a standard oven.



Exploding Sand Sculptures

February 17th, 2007 at 6:21 am » Comments (0)

Here is an amazing video of sand sculptures exploding in reverse.



Complexity and the Ability to Predict Conflict

February 17th, 2007 at 6:08 am » Comments (0)

Can complexity be used to anticipate conflicts? Yes. Here is the logic.



College Kids Experimentation

February 17th, 2007 at 12:13 am » Comments (0)

Most Tuesdays and Fridays, 25-year-old Hector Rodriguez can be found in ZLB Plasma Services or one of the many blood donation centers in the Twin Cities. Rodriguez doesn’t donate his blood or plasma to save lives, though. He does it to save money on alcohol.



Working Women Germier than Working Men

February 17th, 2007 at 12:02 am » Comments (0)

Working women are a mess. Women’s offices had three to four times more bacteria, mold and yeast than men’s in the 113 offices tested recently by an environmental microbiology professor, Charles Gerba at the University of Arizona in Tucson.