Crumbling Bridge Chosen As Symbol of Decaying Infrastructure

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Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was forced to close the Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River last week. The 50-year-old structure connects Indiana with Kentucky via Interstate 64, and after years of overuse, the bridge has deteriorated significantly.
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Cocktail Typewriter Which Lets You “Drink” Your Words

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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to eat – no sorry, scratch that – what it’s like to drink your words? Well if you have the time, patience and dedication that morskoiboy had, you may be able to. Apart from the novelty of being able to “drink” your words, you will also be able to have fun mixing various cocktails simply by typing them out.

Basically a liquid such as alcohol, milk or even water is attached to the top of the device, which acts as a neutral color liquid. The various tubes at the back are then attached to bottles of various colors, for example you could use rose syrup, or grape juice, or pink guava juice, or a bottle of Gatorade. As the liquid at the top flows (whose flow rate can be controlled), you then type in the various letters which will then draw out the liquid from the other bottles.

For example you could associate the letters on the “keyboard” (which are actually syringes) with its drink, like A for Apple juice, O for Orange juice, L for Lime juice, so on and so forth. By pressing the letters, the colors will then form into the various alphabets that you pressed in the white piece of plastic on the front, which a commenter on YouTube has amusingly referred to as an LCD – Liquid Cocktail Display.

It does not appear to be for sale, but if you want more detailed information on how it works, you can check out the video below for a demonstration or head on down to morskoiboy’s website for more details.


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World’s Smallest Camera

Posted by TechBuddy On 4:29 AM 0 comments

I would suppose it can be quite the liberating experience if you have been lugging around a DSLR for the longest time, that you forgot just how it felt like to carry around a small, compact camera to shoot your photos. Well, here is something that might just shock you out of your boots – we’re talking about what is touted to be the World’s Smallest Camera, where it is no larger than your fingertip.

Yes sir, it measures just more than an inch in all dimensions, tipping the scales at half an ounce as if it is meant for those who have Lilliputian dexterity. Despite the unusually small size, it is said that a human finger is able to snap a photo using but a touch of the shutter button.

Don’t expect high quality images from this model though, since it sports a mere 2-megapixel image sensor which is capable of shooting crisp JPEG photographs at 1600 x 1200 resolution, while video is recorded in the AVI format at 30 frames-per-second with 640 x 480 resolution. All images and video are stashed away onto a 2GB microSD memory card, and you can always hook it up to a computer via USB for data transfer later on. The price for the World’s Smallest Camera? $99.95 a pop. Reasonable enough for you? I’m afraid it is way too small for me to keep as I tend to lose things all the time, and with no option for manual controls, this is but a novelty purchase.

While I’ve spotted this on Hammacher’s site for a while now (definitely not a year), it is strange to see it being announced in a press release in the middle of nowhere.
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World’s First 3D Chocolate Printer

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Good news for chocolate lovers as a fascinating 3D chocolate printer is at the door — the world’s first 3D chocolate printer was just unveiled in U.K. This 3D chocolate printer is the result of collaborative work and research of University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of Brunel and software developer Delcam. The printer can produce 3D imprints of chocolate based on user demanded designs or wordings. 3D printers have been previously used with metal and plastic objects for industrial purposes but this is the first time chocolate imprints are produced.

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