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One thing that always amazes us is the ingenuity displayed by prison inmates, as demonstrated in the tools and weapons they create while under the watchful eye of the law. Unlike most people however, these individuals have nothing but time on their side, which lends to the wide range of implements they inevitably dream up. [Marc Steinmetz] took some time to photograph a handful of contraband … [Read more...]
Not to be outdone, Popular Science published their Best of What's New 2008 and packed it with videos and photo galleries. Inspiring inventions include the Pipistrel Taurus Electro, the longest-flying two-seated electric plane, the Intel Core 2 Duo Small Form Factor, which you can thank for the thinner laptops like Apple's MacBook Air, and the GroundBot, a spherical robot that can roll through the … [Read more...]
And now, for your amusement, we present to you a navigation system from the 1920s. It's not so much a satellite navigation system as it is a tiny map mounted in a wristwatch, but for the available technology of the era, this was a pretty ingenious invention, Other (and somewhat more bizarre) entries on this list of over a dozen other inventions from the early part of the 20th century include a … [Read more...]
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