For the first time, scientists have coaxed a damaged heart to regrow healthy tissues on its own. They applied living “patches” to a heart, in what is a major breakthrough for people recovering from heart attacks. More
Midlife crisis used to be for old guys, but young people today have got their own version: “quarterlife crisis.” It is hitting twenty- and thirtysomethings shortly after the enter the real world.
Author Damien Barr said that a “growing number of 25-year-olds are experiencing pressures previously felt by those in their mid-forties”:
“Plenty of people are going to say the quarterlife crisis doesn’t exist,” he said. “The truth is that our 20s are not, as they were for our parents, 10 years of tie-dye fun and quality ‘me’ time. Being twentysomething now is scary – fighting millions of other graduates for your first job, struggling to raise a mortgage deposit and finding time to juggle all your relationships.
“We have the misfortune to be catapulted into a perilous property market. We’re earning more and spending more than ever. We’re getting into debt to finance our degrees, careers and accommodation.”
He added: “The Depression Alliance estimates that a third of twentysomethings feel depressed.
“If, as we’re constantly told, the world is our oyster, it’s definitely a dodgy one. Unlike the midlife crisis, the quarterlife crisis is not widely recognised. There are no ‘experts’ to help us. We have no support apart from each other.”
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You can buy hardware store materials of the future from these folks: Translucent concrete, rubber glass, unwetable sand, suction cup tape, etc. They primarily sell small quantities of very innovative stuff, but will work with you if you like what you tried and want it in bulk. The materials and devices are so amazing you’ll invent things just to use them.
— KK
I have used Inventables a lot. I have found them to be responsive and helpful when I have a question about a product, or when I want to get larger quantities of a sampled product for a real application. For example, when I needed some Stretch Sensing Rubber in a different diameter for a toy I was designing, and they promptly got me the size and quantities that I needed for the prototypes. When we were designing a high-volume medical device that needed a piezoelectric actuator, they put me directly in contact with the manufacturer of the material.
— Danny Hillis
Sample Products
Talking tape
Talking tape makes it possible to mechanically create sound from various objects. With one hand, you hold the top of the tape. With the other, you slide your thumbnail down the ribbon against the grooves. Do this and you hear, “Congratulations!” The ribbon has grooves just like a traditional record. When your fingernail is pulled down the ribbon, it causes sound vibrations. The card works as the amplifier to make the sound louder. You can replace the card with a plastic cup, a balloon, a greeting card, or just about anything. The ribbons can be made to play any sound you can record; however, the manufacturer claims voices work better than music.
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Conductive thread
Incorporate this silver-plated nylon thread into fabric
This is a silver plated nylon thread that can conduct electricity. These types of threads are usually manufactured for anti-static electromagnetic shielding, intelligent textiles, wearable technology, and heating purposes. The particular type featured here is great for sewing resistors into fabric and for other general sewing applications.
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Bendable Wood
Allows for creative applications of solid wood
Bendable Wood is a cold-bendable compressed wood that enables the creation of dramatic and unique bentwood parts using thick, solid, quality hardwood lumber. The maximum radius for bending is in the range of five times the board thickness as long as the wood moisture content remains between 20 to 25%. The desired shape/form becomes fixed and stable upon drying to 6 to 8% moisture content. Available in more than ten of the most common North American hardwoods. This product should not merely replace steam bent, laminated, or kerfed components, but it should be employed to make your work easier and inspire much more dramatic and challenging bends that could not otherwise be fabricated using solid lumber. The unique properties of this wood enable a new world of ideas, experimentation, creative solutions, fast production environments, and performance. Choose to do it yourself, or let us do it for you.
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Windows: It happens all too often for no apparent rhyme or reason — an application just stops responding. If you'd like to troubleshoot the cause, freeware app WhatIsHang can provide some clues. More
The first Saturday in May is a glorious day for comic book fans, or anyone who likes to get things for free. You find a participating comic store in your area, you walk in, and you get to grab a few comic books for free. That’s it. No strings attached, other than the fact my family tends to walk out with an armful of trades to go along with our free books.
There is something magical about taking the entire family to the local comic store and having everyone walk out with something they’ve never read and they didn’t have to pay for.
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The popular wisdom is that no one can drown in the Dead Sea because they’ll float on the super-salty waters. That’s wrong, but it’s true that drownings in the Dead Sea are different from drowning deaths in ordinary waters. More
How to you kill two birds with one stone? We haven’t been back to the moon since the Apollo missions and we have a looming energy crisis. Former NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt has a big plan to solve both those issues.
One of the big problems with current solar cells is that they aren't able to absorb infrared light — which accounts for around a third of the solar energy that hits the planet. A new type of nanomaterial, a tiny antenna, could solve that problem and make our solar panels far more efficient. More
Good morrow! Welcome to the world of the future! We present to the public a Miraculous and Orotund Airship for the conveyance of people, cattle, and cargo from All Points On the Earth To All Others! How does this Majestic Airboat Fly? Through the Miracle Of Helium, a Safe Gas that will bear aloft almost any Great Mass.
The Original Problem of many Airships was the maintenance of Bouyancy. As said ships burned Fuel, the ship would fall or rise in accordance to the Laws Of Gravity. Using a System called Control Of Static Heaviness, this Aircow can Fly and Rise Without Issue, coming to rest at any point on the Earth for passengers to disembark.
Created by a man of Slavik descent, one Igor Pasternak, the system pushes bouyant Helium into tubes when not necessary, thereby reducing the Weight that is pushed up into the Air. Using a Condesnor and some Tubes, the COSH Airhorse will allow Helium to increase and decrease as is Necessary to the Flight of the Craft.
Does this mean that You, Dear Reader, will ride on such a Craft before the year is Through? Don’t Bet On It, Friend, but instead thank the heavens that such a monstrosity does not scare your cattle and children as it Rises Over Your Hovel.
Mourn no more PS3 owners: what Sony hath taken away, the hacker community has given right back. The team at Gitbrew.org have returned Linux to the Cell-based gaming console with OtherOS++, which boasts a number of benefits over Sony’s official stab at supporting other operating systems. For one, Linux is no longer relegated to a performance-degrading virtual machine and has full access to the PS3 hardware, and two, it works on both old-school “fat” models and the newer “slim” ones. We warn you, though — this install is not for the faint of heart, and some older models that use NAND flash instead of VFLASH aren’t compatible (check against this list). If you’re undeterred, hit up the source link for downloads, instructions, and (most importantly) to stick it to the man.OtherOS++ brings Linux back to the PS3, taunts Sony originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 May 2011 11:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.