Are You Hungry Enough To Eat A Horse? Measure Accordingly!

by Laurie Kay Olson

Calling all pasta-holics! As you know it can be tough making sure that you make just the right amonut of pasta to go with your favorite sauce. Every kitchen can also use a bit of whimsy and this cute tool for measuring out your spaghetti, angel hair, or linguini will really get that done.

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ZipNiqab: An Innovative Soution For Discreet Muslim Women

by Fashion Finds

Niqabs are worn by many women from the Muslim community that are focused on modesty. The goal of the Niqab is to cover the lower part of their face - but this garment poses a challenge when it comes time to eat in public. Women are then force to choose between a messier mealtime, or sacrificing their modesty and pulling the religiously motivated apparel away from their faces. Neither is the most desirable way to proceed, which is why the ZipNiqab was created.

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Showcase Your Pioneering Invention At The 2013 Arctic Innovation Competition & Win Up To $10,000!

Present Invention at 2013 Arctic Innovation Competition, win big money

by Arnold Carreiro

If you’re looking to win some major cash for sharing your ground-breaking invention or product, and are able to go to Fairbanks, Alaska to do so, then I’ve got the contest for you!

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The Power of Psychology: How Gaming Helps Fight Cancer

by Nicholas.Greene

It's incredible the degree to which one's mindset can impact one's well-being. To that end,one team of doctors and programmers has devised their own unique means of attacking the Cancer: they've made a video game. Several, actually.

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BrickPi: Making Robots Out of Raspberry Pi

by Katie Gatto

The Raspberry Pi project is getting a new twist. The newest add on, dubbed BrickPi, is a sensation of Kickstarter. The project, which has raised more than $20,000 offeres users the chance to use the setup to make and control robots. The only other thing neeeded is a Lego Mindstorm set. The project is set to ship to donators in August of this month. There is still time to get your's if you want one.

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Give A Solution That Is A Cut Above The Competition To Win €4.000 From The Pöttinger Engineering Contest!

Innovate harvesting equipment to win big cash prizes!

by Arnold Carreiro

European farm equipment producer Pöttinger is looking for help, and if you can revamp one of their existing harvesting tools to slice plants in a neat and orderly manner, you’ll walk away with a nice cash prize for thinking outside of the box!

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Drink Mixing Robots Shown Off

by Katie Gatto

The folks over at Coke and Bacard have been working with researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab to create a robot that is capabale of making you great drinks. The robot, which is currently in testing, is able to make 1000's of different types of drinks with the help of an app.

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Gain Additional Clout on Klout When You Play For No Pay?

by Ron Callari

While still considered a punchline by many, for others that are happy to receive the perk of free access to American Airlines Admirals Club, Klout has been diligently trying to find ways to up its game. No longer content in just assessing one's social media score, Klout is morphing into a social network of sorts.

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The Exciting New Frontier of Brainwave Control

by Nicholas.Greene

Brain wave control is hardly a new concept. It's something scientists, designers, and inventors have been fiddling around with for years. Now, however, there might be a new source of innovation and advancement in the field: gaming.

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Create Android Apps With HTML, CSS, JavaScript

by dendory

A new framework called Fries allow web developers to use their existing skills with HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create native Android apps without learning any native programming code.

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Demonstrate How To Build Your Green Product To Win Over $1,000 In Prizes From Instructables’ Green Design Contest!

Make recycled products and show how to win big prizes

by Arnold Carreiro

If you can demonstrate how to build something useable that is truly worth raiding the recycle bin to create, you could win over $1,000 worth of prizes from Voltaic, REI, Nokero and more!

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Up In Smoke: The Revolution of High Art

by Art Outside The...

4/20, International Pot Smoking Day, has come and gone, but Chronic artist Cliff Maynard never stops celebrating the holidaze. His mind-blowing portraits made of the burnt-out roaches from thousands of joints prove that drugs don't just inspire art, sometimes they actually make it. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Propose A C02-Reducing Product Or Invention, Win € 500,000 In The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge!

by Arnold Carreiro

If you’ve got an invention that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, pitch your idea to the judges at The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge for a chance to receive € 500,000 to develop your business plans.

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Watch Bitcoin Mining Live With BitCam

by dendory

With Bitcoin being so popular, it was only a matter of time before a live streaming webcam was setup to see coin mining in action, this one called the BitCam and set by the Wired crew.

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Gaming With Spreadsheets: A Closer Look at Arena.Xlsm

by Nicholas.Greene

Game development's big business these days, but what a lot of developers - and gamers- seem to have forgotten is that you don't need top-tier development tools to create a great game. Sometimes, all you need is an idea and a bit of knowledge: that's all it took for Cary Walkin, who created a whole RPG using nothing but Microsoft Excel.

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Give It A Rest: Bamboo Kitchen Utensils

by Laurie Kay Olson

People who live in small apartments and mobile homes don't always have a lot of room for little extras -- sometimes not even a spoon rest. Even when you do have room for a spoon rest, they can get pretty messy. The answer can be found in these great Give It A Rest utensils. Each one comes with a built in spoon rest.

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Sit On One Of These Feral Futons By Máximo Riera, IF YOU DARE!

Get inspired by reinvented animal chairs!

by Arnold Carreiro

When people tell you that the wheel doesn’t need to be redesigned, lean back in your biologically accurate rhinoceros throne and scold them for thinking inside the box.

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Nasa Tests New Rover

by Katie Gatto

A new rover named GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, is being sent to test itself in the polar ice. The robot, which will be tested in May and June is also soon to get a companion made by Dartmouth University during the summe.

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Build A Fantastic Product To Create The Future For A $20,000 Prize

Win $20,000 in Create the Future Contest!

by Arnold Carreiro

The Create the Future Design Contest has been pushing talented inventors to dream up incredible and innovative products since 2002, and there’s still time for you to get your idea in this heated competition!

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Gecko Robot Can Climb

by Katie Gatto

New work from researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology had prouced a light weight robot that is modeled after the high climbing gecko robot. The mostly plastic robot is set up with a low melting goo on its feet that allows the robot to climb vertical surfaces.

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