Engineering Students Unite To Save The World, One Invention At A Time – Enter To Win The James Dyson Award 2013 Competition!

Make the world a better place and win tons of cash too!

by Arnold Carreiro

Since 2010, the James Dyson Award has prodded engineering and design students from around the world to create and share their unique innovations with the ultimate goal of solving problems, and they're gearing up to see what 2013 has to offer the planet...

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Get Cranky To Charge Up Your Cell Phone

by Laurie Kay Olson

With the season of outdoor back-to-nature adventures and severe weather on the way you want to keep your cell phone handy. Though it won't be very handy if the battery runs out and there is no electrical power for miles. To make sure that you will always have power for your smartphone you can keep the Emergency Hand Crank Cell Phone Charger on hand.

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Time To Sober Up? Then Drink This

by Laurie Kay Olson

While not drinking too much in the first place is probably the best advice, most of us still manage to over-indulge at least once in a while. The general result of such activity leads to feeling like death warmed-over, thinking the sun came up too bright, and wishing the birds in the trees would shut up. Now there is help. Sober Up is a non-alcoholic shot of liquid infused with Eastern herbs to detox your body and clarify your mind.

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Newman K1 Smartphone With Quad-Core CPU & 5-inch Screen To Be Priced Under $160

by China.new

The new K1 smartphone from China's Newman offers users a wealth of advanced features including a 1.2Ghz quad-core MediaTek MTK6589 chipset, a 5-inch 720p display and front & rear cameras, all for under 1,000 yuan or $160.

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Making The Most Out Of Quirky.com

by dendory

Quirky.com is a great site aimed at inventors and something you can take advantage of to market your ideas into products, but not everything makes it to the production floor. How can you maximize your chances for your idea to become a product?

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Retroarch: Your One-Stop Shop For All Things Emulation

by Nicholas.Greene

Today, I'd like to talk to all of you fine folks out there who are trying to keep old-school gaming and nostalgia alive on the PC through the magic of emulation - I've a too you'll find very interesting. Old gaming hardware is becoming scarcer and scarcer and the games that we all once knew and loved are becoming more and more difficult to find. There may eventually come a day when ROMs and Emulators are the only way to keep the passion - and the memory - alive.

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Happy Hacking Keyboard Could Be Just Your Type

by Steve Levenstein

While the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 from Japan's PFU was designed with the needs of coders and UNIX system administrators in mind, its many attributes appeal to everyday, practical-minded keyboard users as well.

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Cory Booker, The Social Media Mayor's #Waywire Disrupts The News Via Video [Videos]

by Ron Callari

We're familiar with celebrities tipping their toes in the social media waters. A number of actors now have their a number of pet projects. Some like Ashton Kutcher actually head up social media marketing firm like the Katalyst Network or Ian Somerhalder and his news activist site in beta called "Ryot," or Justin Timberlakes' current attempt at welcoming defectors back to MySpace. But up till now, there's been no political figures actively involved in a social media enterprise. That was, until Cory Booker created #waywire.

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Wasabi Warning: Use Of This Product May Set Your Face On Fire

by Bob J

The edge is where you play your best. Where the light meets the dark, where fear rises from the shadows to greet you, this is where you thrive. This is your water, your breath of air. And if you think you would eat a bowl of wasabi on a dare, read on. If you dare...

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Make Your Own MacBreakfast At Home

Breakfast Sandwich Maker by Hamilton Beach

by Laurie Kay Olson

Now you can make those fantastic and fun breakfast sandwiches right in your own kitchen with the help of the Breakfast Sandwich Maker from Hamilton Beach. You can make the sandwich any way you want it -- with or without eggs or cheese, any meat you want, and choose your bread from English muffins to bagels to pancakes.

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Samsung Announces Galaxy S4

by dendory

Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 today, an upgraded model to its very popular S3 from last year. There are better specs, new software offerings, but a fairly similar looking handset case. The S4 will be out this coming April.

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Can Your Invention Make The Top 5 For The ClickStartMe Product and Invention Contest?

ClickStartMe’s Product and Invention Contest is waiting to share your BIG idea!

by Arnold Carreiro

Are you ready for a no-holds-barred way to not only show that your innovative invention is the greatest thing since sliced awesome, earn funding for your idea’s creation as well as a nation-reaching marketing deal to sell it to the masses? Grab your blueprints and get ready to blow America’s socks off!

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Robot Wheelchair Makes Walking Look Bad!

by Katie Gatto

Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System or ROPITS for short, a new robot wheelchair designed by the people have at Hitachi the system, which can be used in conjunction with a tablet or a smart phone, will enable users to get from point a to point b without having to plan every inch of the path manually.

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TeleSound Makes Sounds From Your Smartphone

by dendory

The TeleSound is a Kickstarter project which aims at extending your smartphone with sounds. Pairing with your phone or tablet using Bluetooth, it will allow you to send sound requests to the integrated speaker, for the amusement of your cat or kids.

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Five Best Rockers For Baby

by Tamara Warta

A researched list on the five best rockers available for your baby will help you make important purchasing decisions. Whether you are looking for style or convenience, there is an ideal product available for you.

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'Breaking the Fourth Wall' From Shakespeare To The Office To Leigh Singer [Video]

by Ron Callari

The "Fourth Wall' is a theatrical term for the imaginary wall that exists between actors and their audiences. Originating from Ancient Greek theater, while the open-box arena of a theater stage makes up three walls, theater-goers are seen as the fourth wall. "Breaking the fourth wall" is considered a technique of metafiction, as it penetrates the boundaries normally set up by works of fiction by reaching out to the audience.

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Life Will Be No Sweat With Air Conditioned Shoes

by Laurie Kay Olson

Summer is on its way and with it comes that perennial problem of hot and sweaty feet while dressed for success. These days businessmen in Japan can keep their cool on the job with air conditioned dress shoes. The shoes come in a wide range of colors -- brown and black. The footwear can be found in the best-seller section of a prominent shoe store in Tokyo.

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Chinese Therapeutic “Fire Treatment” Improves Looks, Shocks Onlookers

by China.new

A Chinese cosmetic and weight loss procedure known as Huo liáo (fire treatment) is attracting notice not for its supposed therapeutic benefits, but for the shocking appearance of those undergoing it.

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No Bathroom? No Problem. Bumper Dumper Lets You Drop Your Pants Wherever You Are

by Bob J

Remember when you had to run around town literally busting to reach a bathroom safely? Or were forced to drive for miles anxiously looking for the next rest stop? Those days are over. So long as your car or truck is close by, the Bumper Dumper means now you'll always have somewhere to go.

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Build Something Snappy To Win The Rubber Band Contest For Young Inventors

by Arnold Carreiro

It’s time to stretch imaginations once again for the 2013 Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors! With over $7,000 in prize money on the line, students from grades 5-8 will compete to build the greatest rubber band powered invention of all time.

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