Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase  
The degradable paintNpause products preserve the wet paint within the paintbrush, roller and tray while greatly reducing the need for continuous cleaning and flushing paint into the water runoff system.

Diet Pills
Now that the magical glow of Halloween is over, and in its wake you realize that you have decimated the entire tub of Halloween candy that failed to attract enough trick-or-treaters. You also realize that now that the winter months are approaching, bringing with them cold, rain, snow, wind, Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas feast and [...]

Taking off-road travel to another level
Helios was clearly inspired by the Jurassic era, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Helios is a concept design for an off-road electric solar-powered vehicle. When you take a break from your off-roading and stop the vehicle, the car will spread its “wings” which are made of photovolatic panels, in order [...]

 
Robotic Chair
Called the Leopard, Japan’s Oki Electric Industry Company and Okamura Corporation have developed a robotic chair that will rise up to meet you as you sit. It’s based off of a robotic set of legs the duo developed that better simulates jumping for bipedal ‘bots. The chair doesn’t jump, but it will tilt to [...]

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Soviet animation from 1973
“The Island” (Ostrov) – this Soviet-era animation from 1973 has a lot to say about our consumerist society…. Made by the talented director Fyodor Khitruk, it won the Golden Palm in Cannes (the good stuff starts around 1:30 mark). Second video after the jump.

 Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase
Card Parlour Darts are poker darts played on a regulation dart board.

DaVinci Institute’s Inventor Boot Camp – 2008
It all starts with an epiphany. Every invention begins with a single “eureka moment” or some “brilliant revelation” that causes the inventor to take action.
These epiphanies become the idea seeds that will eventually get planted around the world. But we can only wish the process [...]

Terrorist Tools?

According to a report about Gutanamo detainees over at New York Times, your next eBay bidding war for that used copy of Sonic and Knuckles might be with Al Qaeda:
One detainee is said to have been schooled in making detonators out of Sega game cartridges. A Yemeni who has received little public attention was [...]

Recycled Delicates

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch sees beauty in recyclables: she creates some truly awesome bustiers, garters, and underpants from recycled soda cans and hardware! (Pics)

Don’t Look Now!

Internet “black boxes” will be used to collect every email and web visit in the UK under the Government’s plans for a giant “big brother” database.
Home Office officials have told senior figures from the internet and telecommunications industries that the “black box” technology could automatically retain and store raw data from the web [...]

The International Monetary Fund has already helped out Ukraine, Iceland and Hungary.
If many more countries need assistance, the IMF may need help of its own.
First it was mortgage lenders. Then large banks began to wobble. Now, entire countries, including Ukraine and Pakistan, are facing financial ruin. The International Monetary Fund is there to help, but [...]