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No More Needles (Again)? P.L.E.A.S.E. Delivers Medicine Without Needles

by Mariella Moon
P.L.E.A.S.E. can deliver medication through your skin without the pain that comes with injections.

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Robot Pill Bugs Put Out Fires

by Lisa Zyga

Sometime in the future, 200-pound bugs may be roaming around the forests. That's not due to any increase in oxygen levels, but rather because these bugs are robots whose job it is to extinguish forest fires.


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Touch-Screen Functionality Comes to Digital Photo Frames

by Ben Arnold
New touch-screen capable digital photo frames have been released from Pandigital. The PanTouch line boasts an impressive feature set including connectivity via bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, and via 6-in-1 card reader. Can Pandigital hit another home run with its latest product line?

Gravity Racing at its Best

by George Delozier
Whoever said you had to a have a big motor to go fast never shook hands with Jakob Hirzel. His challenge was to design a gravity racer for the Xtreme Gravity Series in Irvine, California, and it's safe to say he did very very well.

New Spy-Like Gadget to Help Recover SMS Messages

by Ben Arnold
A new spy gadget helps recover deleted SMS messages from the SIM card of any cell phone. Cheating significant others, shady business people, and teenagers the world over are getting nervous.

Green Lawnmower For the Lazy Environmentalists

by Gloria Campos
Once upon a time lazy environmentalists, like me, tired of pushing our push reel mowers, dreamed of an eco-friendly automatic lawnmower that would cut our lawns on it’s own. Helping us live our green lives more conveniently. Luckily, I have a friend who thinks about me and sends me links like the one for the Robomower Automatic Lawnmower RL-1000 .

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For Kids By Kids: Chocolate Flavored Brussel Sprouts

by Toby

If three kid inventors have anything to say about it, all vegetables will taste like chocolate... even brussel sprouts! Yep! Three third-graders from Annapolis, MD have invented "The Micro Flavor Machine," and won a shot at the finals of the 2008 Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards.


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Mazda-2 : World Car of the Year

by George Delozier
For the past 4 years, a panel of almost 50 automotive journalists get together and choose the best overall car form around the world. For 2008, their choice was the Mazda-2. What was their reasoning?

Great Invention Idea? Kill Bugs Fast with Radiation Gun!

by Elizabeth Valeri
Gnats, mosquitoes, field mice, ants, and all manner of creepy crawlies are just as interested in your summer activities as you are. In the past, the most effective protection against these tiny critters was to slather yourself with some deet or paraben laden lotion only to find you had traded one set of problems: bug bites, for another: cancer. Well those days of compromise are over thanks to United States patent 6647661.

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Italian Car Design Takes to the Sky

by George Delozier
Pininfarina is best known for making some of the most beautiful and fastest cars we have even seen. Names like the Ferrari F50 and 612 come to mind. So if you are responsible for such names, what happens when you want more? Well, I guess the sky is the limit.
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