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Unusual Uses for Baby Oil

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Oh baby oil. What you do for me!

Instructables has a very informative and interesting post on more uses for baby oil.

Have you heard that joke about baby oil? The one that goes something like:

If corn oil is made with corn and peanut oil is made with peanuts, then what is baby oil made with?

The answer: Baby oil is made with mineral oil and fragrance by industrial professionals; babies don’t have the fine motor skills or chemistry knowledge to create baby oil, duh.

Baby oil is useful for a lot of things beyond baby bottoms. It’ll smooth, soften, lubricate, refinish, clean, and so much more. It also has some usual uses for which it really oughtn’t be used. Read on for some tips and tricks that’ll help you step your baby oil game up.

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DIY, Food, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Inventions

How to Make Pop Rocks

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Pop Rocks at home!

Chickflix has posted an Instructable that pierces the veil of mystery and describes how to mix your own Pop Rocks at home. The secret ingredient turns out to be pretty mundane, alas — I always assumed that they were filled with some violent, rare substance that ground its way through my guts on the way out. On the other hand, now that the secret is in the open, it paves the way for exotic Pop Rock flavors, such as French mustard, roast beef, and pineapple…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Culture, DIY, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, Humor

Breathalyzer Nintendo Game

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Baltsy Adams – game programmer.

DrunkenNES is a video game controlled by breathing into breathalyzer built into a modified game cartridge. It was developed by Baltsy Adams, pictured above. Points are awarded based upon level of intoxication (the drunker the player, the higher the score). This video illustrates game play. (after jump…)

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Photos, DIY, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, New Discoveries

Pretty Paper Wigs

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That’s what I call wiggy!

The Atlanta duo Amy Flurry and Nikki Salk have created a wonderful series of fantastic paper wigs! Flurry is a freelance writer, editor and stylist and she also co-founded Paper-Cut-Project. Salk has a degree in Fine Arts in Design and runs a fashion blog called Fashion Gatherer and an art website called Charta-Aeterna.

Their paper installations are “fueled by a love of fashion and an appreciation of grace and nuance of this humble material.”

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Breakthrough Thinking, DIY, Humor, New Viewpoints

Robo Dancing Grover

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Grooving with Grover!

Before that little red punk Elmo showed up and started scoring all the big interviews and plum assignments, Grover was the top fuzzy monster on Sesame Street. Times change, and any monster will tell you, life out on the Street can be hard. Out-hustled and out-cuted, Grover’s just another monster on the block. That didn’t stop a California Grover fan from making this sweet Dancing Grover Robot…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, DIY, Education, Entertainment, Globalism, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Clock Built to Tell Time on Other Planets

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Telling the time one planet at a time.

Alexander Avtanski designed a clock that can be adjusted to keep time on many different planets based upon each one’s rotation period — at the same time. Here’s what sets this clock apart from other extraterrestrial clocks, according to its builder…

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A 33 Foot Touchscreen Built Using Off-The-Shelf Hardware and Public Domain Software

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The University of Groningen in the Netherlands made this 32.8 ft. by 9.2 ft. touchscreen interface from six expensive cameras… and some “cheap” infrared emitters, 1000 LEDs, some old computers that were sitting around, and some free software.

The result is a positively enormous curved screen with a resolution of 4900 by 1700 that can track 100 different touches at a time… and that’s just at optimum speeds.  Latency is between 30 and 50 ms.

Anyone up for a game of Pong?

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Animals, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, DIY, Green Friendly, New Inventions

Flypaper Clock Eats Flies, Uses Their Bodies for Energy

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Carcasses Create Energy For Clock

Design student James Auger was inspired by carnivorous plants to make a clock that is powered by converting the bodies of dead insects into electricity. A roll of flypaper catches the flies, which are in turn scraped off and dumped into a fuel cell…

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