Tag: inventions
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Make Your Garden Bloom By Blasting Them With #FlowerShells
from digitaltrends.com: Still toiling away with trowels and rakes to tend your unruly garden? Skip the hands-and-knees routine and show your soil who’s boss with Flower Shells. What’s a Flower Shell you ask? It’s exactly what it sounds like: a shotgun shell loaded with flower seeds. And no, just to clarify, you don’t stuff these…
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Is 3-D Printing the Future of Food?
3-D food printing emerges at SXSW Eco* from dairyherd.com: Food printing has been around for several years. A group at Cornell University created a printer in 2011 that could print chocolate, cheese, scallops, celery and turkey. Click here for more. Earlier this year, Dutch scientists printed a burger with a $325,000 price tag. Though it…
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Colorado School of Mines engineers turn food garbage to glass
from denverpost.com: Colorado School of Mines engineers have found an alternative to digging into mountains for minerals: mining the minerals from food waste. They’ve turned putrid banana peels, eggshells and rice husks into crystal-clear glass. Now they’re investigating what other muck may yield. In a lab here, they rigged up a cooking system that starts…
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Billboard Dispenses Free Cakes To London Commuters In Bus Shelters
from huffingtonpost.com: First came the cupcake ATM, now there’s a cake dispensing billboard. With just a touch of a button the automated fixture distributes up to 500 Mr. Kipling cakes per day, along with a sweetened aroma to tempt London commuters, reports Ad Age. The novel publicity stunt is part of a campaign by the…
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FDA to Review Safety of Aeroshot’s Inhalable Caffeine
from ap: U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and it’s also available in France. Consumers…
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John Whiteside Parsons & the Occult Origins of NASA
Parsons died attempting to call forth the goddess Babalon incarnate (a.k.a. The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, or the Mother of Abominations), but not before he co-founded JPL or Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is now NASA.
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‘poop burger’: get it while it’s hot – and still a hoax
scientist allegedly takes protein from human excrement from kprc: Just in time for summer grilling: Japanese scientists say they have created synthetic meat derived from human excrement. The news that Mitsuyuki Ikeda, of Okayama Laboratory, perfected the meat streaked across the Internet. Whether or not the whole breakthrough is a crafty online hoax remains to…
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‘Fukushima Plate’ Tells You If Your Sushi Is Radioactive
Designer Nils Ferber has come up with a concept design that would put diners at ease – a plate that glows as it detects radiation in your food. The “Fukushima Plate” is an “ordinary kitchen plate with built-in radioactive meter to visualize your food’s level of contamination.
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ground zero: the edison enigma
with thanks to zero point radio & ground zero tv! from clyde lewis: On September 7th, 1897 Edison patented his spirit communication machine with the US patent office. There are many websites that suggest that Edison’s vision of communicating with the dead was all an urban legend and yet there were ads that were placed…
