A few years ago, Ikea announced it had designed a better refugee shelter, using its flatpack furniture as a basis for engineering. As great an idea as it was, it wasn’t clear how the concept would ever find its way to reality. Now, these Ikea refugee shelters will be deployed— by the thousands . Read more…
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The UN Just Ordered 10,000 of Ikea’s Brilliant Flatpack Refugee Shelters
If you need more than ten fingers to count the number of times you’ve burned yourself while trying to light a candle at the bottom of a tall glass container, the Illume ArcLighter will probably seem like the greatest invention since the wheel. Instead of a flame, it produces a glowing electric arc that can light everything from candles, to gas burners, to even kindling. Read more…
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This Lighter Works Like a Taser To Start Fires Without a Flame
Biometric security is a feature already found on lots of mobile phones and tablets and it’s getting better and better , but Microsoft wants to bring the tech front and center on Windows 10, using fingerprint, faces, and even your irises to completely kill the password once and for all. Read more…
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Windows 10 Could Mean Never Typing a Password Again
Two years ago, Nvidia announced its original Titan graphics card , a bad-boy built on the company’s Kepler technology and for a time the most powerful card out there. Now, the Titan X is here and it’s ready to reclaim the throne. Read more…
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GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast
Rarely a week passes without the report of a new battery technology , but most appear destined to remain within the lab for years. Now, though, a start-up called Sakti3 has a li-on battery that lasts twice as long as most—and $15 million of support from Dyson to make it a reality. Read more…
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New Li-On Battery Lasts Twice as Long—and, Backed By Dyson, Could Sell
I like food that’s as close to being alive (or fresh, depending on your perspective) as possible. That’s partly because it tastes better but also because it’s tingly to see food move when you don’t expect it too. This blooming chocolate dessert is a mover, all right. As you pour the cream onto the dish, the chocolate strip opens up like a flower. Read more…
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Chocolate dessert blooms like a flower right before you eat it
The laws of probability seems simple at first thought, but scratch the surface and their inner truth can be rather more counterintuitive. This video describes one of those situations—and the answer might prove more useful than you think. Read more…
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How Understanding Probability Could Save Your Life
Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill. Read more…
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The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel Mill
NASA may be endlessly fascinated with microbial life on far-flung moons in our solar system or testing powerful rocket boosters that will propel humanity off its ancestral home, but there’s still tons we don’t know about our own planet—and cosmic dust is one of those mysteries. Read more…
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120,000 Pounds of Cosmic Dust Floats Down From Space Every Day
The changing color of a chameleon’s body is an impressive sight—but how it happens has long been a significant scientific question without a compelling answer. Now, researchers have finally identified a thin layer of deformable nanocyrstals in their skin which gives rise the phenomenon. Read more…
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Scientists Have Worked Out How Chameleons Change Color