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Month: October 2010

Chilean Miner Costume Popular For Last Minute Halloween Costumes This Year

Need some ideas for last minute Halloween costumes? Well, if you want to go with something popular that definitely made headlines this year, the Chilean Miner costume may be just the ticket. The Chilean Miner costume is fairly easy to throw together as far as last minute Halloween costumes go. Pretty much all you need are a cool pair of Ray-Bans, a hard hat, and maybe some sort of jumpsuit as far as attire goes.

Even if you don’t have a Halloween party to go to, the Chilean Miner costume may be perfect for dads who are handing out candy to trick-or-treaters.

Some people may think that the Chilean Miner costume is a bit controversial given the ordeal that those men had to go through, but it can also be considered a nice way to celebrate the fact that the men are safe and sound with their families! Whatever last minute Halloween costume you choose, have a safe and happy Halloween weekend!

With this printer, what you see is what you smell

THAT crisp apple colour and that crisp apple smell could one day come out of the same ink-jet printer, if an idea hatched in a Japanese lab takes off. Using technology from existing ink-jet printers, the idea is to generate evocative aromas to complement images on your computer or TV, from the scent of a mown lawn in a family photo to truffles in a cookery show.

Scent-assisted movies were tried out in the mid-20th century. AromaRama pumped scent into cinema air conditioning, while the rival Smell-O-Vision had its own dedicated system of pipes. Both were abject failures, with noisy machinery or patchy odours. Worst of all, each aroma lingered too long and mixed with the next, blending into a noxious stench by the closing credits. More recent attempts to make whiffy peripherals, such as the iSmell USB device from Digiscents in 2000, fell at the same hurdle.

Wall-E Room Tidying Pickup Robot

This is the robot that picks up objects at your command and loads them onto its cargo bed, emptying contents at your preferred location (Play Video). The remote drives the robot left, right, forward, and backward–with skidding sounds for stops and beeps when in reverse–allowing you to nudge it into place for picking up small, 1 oz. items such as balls, toys, or socks with its two articulated arms and hands.

It can also operate autonomously using its four infrared “eyes” that seek and detect objects within its 8 – 12″ sight range while it announces “Let’s get to work!” Once an object is secured, the robot’s torso pivots to deposit an object into its cargo bay; it dumps contents by vibrating to dislodge objects from the bay, adding “one step closer to a cleaner world.” Completely aware of its environment, it informs you when an object is either too large or fixed with “too heavy for me” and “uh… a little help, please” if it gets stuck.

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Hypnotic Illumicube

This clear acrylic cube is filled with 64 multi-colored LEDs that systematically illuminate in 500,000 different combinations, producing a mesmerizing light show. Each LED generates 1,000 different colors and they illuminate in unison or in succession with the same or contrasting colors, creating a continuous cycle of visually captivating light patterns.

All 64 LEDs may emit a vibrant crimson hue and then slowly fade to magenta, each row may illuminate in succession to create waves of rolling light, or the LEDs may light-up one at a time to produce a flaring, twirling light streak.

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Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box

Mikal Hart wanted to give his friend a wedding present like no other – so he engineered a box that can only be opened at a particular location. Here’s the story of the Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box:

Hmm. What does “Distance 391km” mean? “Access Denied” suggests that getting inside the box is indeed the objective of all this button pushing. Just for fun, let’s try again.

Uh oh. We seem to be consuming our limited supply of “attempts”. The “No signal” problem seems to be solved, but the message “Distance 391km” remains puzzling. Does the box know its own location? Is there something 391 kilometers away? London? The Hague? A circle of that radius drawn around Paris intersects quite a few interesting places in France, England, Holland, Switzerland, and Germany.

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