Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, New Inventions

Quirky’s invisible drawer locks only open with a magnetic key

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Unless you work at the Pentagon, the key locks on your desk drawers are probably easy to compromise. So with their new Covert, the folks at Quirky figured that a drawer lock can’t be picked if it can’t be found.

The sliding locking mechanism comes with adhesive tape for a temporary solution, but if you were hoping for any kind of real security you’ll want to screw them in. Once installed on the inside of a drawer the mechanism is completely invisible, and the only way to open it is with an included magnetic key that lets you slide the latch across…

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Animals, Crazy Stuff, Current Events, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior

Woman pays $50k to clone her dog

The death of a beloved pet can be a traumatizing experience, and most people love their pets as they would any other member of their family. But would you pay $50,000 to clone a new version of your beloved pet from the DNA of the deceased? The lady in this clip didn’t hesitate to head over to South Korea, shell out the cash and clone her deceased dog Trouble, and she seems to have no regrets about her decision…

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Education, Entertainment, New Viewpoints

Museum’s geodesic dome houses human-powered light show

The “Star-Turn” installation was made as part of a fundraising effort Help for Heroes, a charity for wounded war veterans. The installation featured a geodesic dome that protected riders of a static Specialized Sirrus bike, which when pedalled, would spin attached armatures mounted with a helix of tea light candles each.

According to the press release, Munro’s design was inspired by accident..

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Animals, Award Winner, Current Events, New Discoveries

World’s smallest vertebrate discovered in New Guinea

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Small but landmark frog.

SU’s Chris Austin recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world’s tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size — less than one-third of an inch. It ousts Paedocypris progenetica, an Indonesian fish averaging more than 8 millimeters, from the record. Austin, leading a team of scientists from the United States including LSU graduate student Eric Rittmeyer, made the discovery during a three-month long expedition to the island of New Guinea, the world’s largest and tallest tropical island…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

The dressing room Of The future

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Changing the way you buy clothing.

This seems like the kind of invention we’ve needed for a long time now-a virtual dressing room that allows you to try on clothes without all that nudity and pointless human interaction.

There are no salespeople to hard sell you into buying that ill fitting garment, you simply try it on for size via touch screen and see what you think for yourself. Here’s how it works…

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Analysis, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Powerful people think they are taller than they actually are

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The study looked at whether the psychological perception of power may cause people to feel taller than they truly are.

The Swedish-born Chairman of BP Carl-Henric Svanberg touched off a firestorm of controversy in June 2010 with his remarks about his company’s reaction to the Gulf oil spill.

“… we care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don’t care. But that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people.

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Analysis, Business

10 things entrepreneurs fail at

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James Altucher:  I was on the phone with Tony Conrad at True Ventures pitching a business idea I had in early 2009. The site was built and we even had people registered for it and I had about a half million dollars already committed but I wanted a VC firm on my side as well. I don’t know why. Maybe I thought it would give me some credibility and I desperately craved it after the divorce I had been going through.

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Great Videos, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

IBM creates a bit of data using only 12 iron atoms

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Miniaturized information storage in atomic-scale antiferromagnets. The binary representation of the letter ‘S’ (01010011) was stored in the Neel states of eight iron atom arrays.

After five years of work, IBM announced on Thursday that its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data. (video)

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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, DIY, Education, Entertainment, Great New Product, Historical Perspectives, New Discoveries, New Inventions, New Viewpoints

World’s first desktop virtual reality design kit – Leonar3Do

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Some of the innovations at CES were basic and if you saw one of them you were going to see 20. Others jumped out and smacked you in the noggin because there were obvious landmark steps in a new direction. The Leonar3Do virtual reality design kit really captured our imagination and kept us thinking all day and night of the possibilities it was capable of…

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