Hot Remember Ring

Goldsmith Gallery is showing off its Remember Ring, which is a form of finger watch - actually, more like a calendar watch. It helps you with remembering (Remember-Ring, get it?) important dates, like say, your anniversary

Here's how it works: You tell the company the date you want to remember, and they set the watch. Then, as you wear it, a micro thermopile inside the Remember Ring keeps the battery charged and on time. Twenty-four hours before the date, a Hot Spot on the interior surface of the ring warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for about ten seconds every hour, all day long.

Howto: Make a DVD Burner into a High-Powered Laser

This page shows a nice way to make a DVD Burner into a high-powered laser -- one that can pop balloons and burn plastic!

Building the Replica of David Bushnell’s Turtle

In 1776, during the American Revolution, a Connecticut Yankee by the name of David Bushnell had a daring idea to break the British blockade of New York harbor: he would build a one-man submarine and somehow attach a bomb to the underside of the British ships and blow them up. Intrigued, Rick and Laura Brown of Handshouse Studio led the effort to re-create the building of a replica of this wooden submarine, nicknamed the "Turtle," using only the tools and technologies of the day. Read more

How to build an offshore wind farm

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Wearable Power Assist Suit

The development of welfare machines which can meet the requirement of the elderly is now an important subject due to the rapidly aging population. The research for the robot which was aimed at supporting transfer movements of patients was begun in the 1970s, and MEL- Kong was the representative example, and an operation robot Nurcy based on the master and slave control system was developed. However, none of these show any prospects of the utility yet. More

Unmanned Mini-Robot-Helicopter Gets 'Weaponized' with AA-12 Shotgun

DefenseReview.com has received video footage of a weaponized version of the AutoCopter self-stabilized unmanned mini-helicopter being tested for the first time in sunny Huntsville, Alabama (The download link for this video is further down in this article.).

The AutoCopter is made by Neural Robotics Incorporated (NRI), and the weapon portion of the package is a 12-gauge Auto Assault-12 Full-Auto Shotgun (a.k.a. AA-12 Full-Auto Shotgun) made by Military Police Systems, Inc. (MPS).  More

The Hudspith Steam Bicycle

 Many visitors to the Great Dorset Steam Fair (29th August - 2nd September 2001) were intrigued by the first appearance of my steam bicycle, after several years of eager anticipation.
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