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Resurfacing a highway requires shutting down lanes, and this creates disruption. The Swiss don't like disruptions. Thus the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) hired Marti Technik AG, a...
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The Best Way to Clean Up Oil Spills: Using Human Hair
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Brilliant design is when you can take a waste product and transform it into something badly needed.
In 1989 Phil McCrory, an Alabama hairdresser, was shampooing a customer's...
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Overnight travel is freaking amazing. I've taken overnight trains and buses in the 'States, Europe and Asia and always loved it. To be unconscious during the boring parts of...
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Astonishing Demos of OpenAI's GPT-4o
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So OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, their latest flagship AI. The AI can not only speak—in a disturbingly lifelike way, complete with surprise, chuckles and the like—but can use...
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A Combination Carabiner/Rope Tightener
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A pickup truck isn't anything without tie-down gear, which all have their pain points. Ratchet straps are the go-to for hauling larger items, but they're overkill for smaller...
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Snooper Trucks: Specialty Vehicles for Underbridge Inspections
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As infrastructure spread across America in the 20th century, we learned that bridges periodically need to be inspected. Having a look at the road surface was easy; just shut...
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Drones vs. High-Up Graffiti
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Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant...
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A Battery-Powered Jacket-Inflating Personal Cooling Device
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I started out wanting to make fun of this thing, but realize that's my climate-controlled-workplace privilege. I'm lucky I don't work in torching conditions anymore; years ago...
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Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins
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I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision:
That's the Wabi-Sabi...
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Vessels Made from Wood Offcuts, Borrowing a Ceramics Technique
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What can you do with tiny offcuts of wood?
For Brooklyn-based furniture maker Richard Haining, the scraps of others are the raw materials for his STACKED series of...
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This Wind bench, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, combines digital fabrication with hand craftsmanship.
Made of birch plywood, the pieces were produced in slices on a CNC...
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At Johns Hopkins University, a Mechanical Engineering class was given a difficult assignment: To silence an off-the-shelf leaf blower, without reducing its...
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