prototypes
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Can A Smart Lighter Help You Quit Smoking?
If you’ve ever chastised a friend for their gnarly smoking habit, you know that scolding does absolutely nothing. Making people feel bad about smoking just makes them want to smoke in secret. Well, here’s an idea: What if it was your lighter making you feel bad about smoking. You can’t run away from your lighter…
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You Could Build This Metal 3D Printer For $1500
One of the limitations of 3D printing is in the materials — plastic might be the most affordable and widely available, but it’s also cheap and brittle. So some students at Michigan Tech University have made a relatively cheap metal 3D printer, and they’re releasing the plans to the masses.
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A Handheld 3D Scanner Could Let You Upload Your Whole World
3D printing is more popular and accessible than ever, and printers are on course to get even cheaper soon. But printing is only one side of the equation; what about taking 3D pictures? There’s a convenient, handheld gadget in the works that could do just that, and way cheaper than anything else has before.
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The Idiotic Things Google Was Going To Make You Say To Use Google Glass
Although wearing Google Glass makes you look like a futuristic cross-eyed cyborg to the entire world, controlling Glass is a lot more natural and conversational than you’d expect. A few swipes and a couple of “OK Glass” to get started. But do you know what Google was thinking about making you say before it settled…