Tesla coil pics
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Some guy's taken pics of a 15000W Tesla coil and put them on flickr.
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SafeTalk – Temporary phone number
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Safe Talk is a new service in the UK that allows you to generate a temporary phone number to use for 7 days to give to people you don't trust/know.
It's simple – text CALL to 80876 and get a temporary number that diverts to your mobile phone for 7 days, and keep your own number safe – until you know if they're nuts or not!
Each number costs £1.50, and you can choose to either extend your usage of the number after seven days or cancel it.
Hi-tech slime control
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Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, US, are working on a new non-lethal weapon that could quite literally bring them to their knees by sliming them.
The institute has developed a super-slimy substance. When fired at an unruly mob it causes rioters to simply slip over.
Riot police or troops would wear a back pack with three cylinders, one containing compressed air, another filled with plain water and a third containing a supply of very dry, finely ground, polyacrylamide powder. A nozzle, resembling a shower head, would blasts two separate jets, containing the water and the polymer powder, in the general direction of an ugly crowd.
As the two jets mix in the air, after clearing the nozzle, they create a slimy mixture that covers the ground and causes everyone in the area to fall down. Even vehicles should be unable to get a grip on the goo, the patent says. And because the gel is non-toxic, it should cause no permanent harm, besides a few bruised bottoms, that is.
April Fools Singing Keyboard
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Mozmonkey has made a keyboard which sings when you press the caps lock key. It's one of the least used keys, and it controls an LED which can be easily modded to control a speaker instead.
The second victim found it sometime after lunch. I wandered by, acting as innocent as I could, and suggesting "Try turning your sound off" then asking "Did you install anything today? Could it be a virus?" She started getting a bit concerned and I couldn't hold a straight face any longer and ended up giving away my guilt.
The last guy never uses caps, so after waiting 2 weeks for it to happen I coerced him to press the key. He did and we had a good laugh about it.
I still have 5 more units setup and ready to go, I just have to find more victims"
Warcraft III table control
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Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs have created a controller for Warcraft III which uses a projector and a touch screen to control the game. Very Star-Trekky, but damn cool
Forcefield like shield pioneered
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This new system, developed by Iran uses radar to track incoming projectiles, then uses a 'secret countermeasure' to detonate the head on the RPG/missile before it hits, meaning the only damage is done by the weight of the missile hitting. It's not exactly a forcefield, but from the video it looks pretty similar.
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Rube Goldberg machines
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That’s the type of Honda advert machine for anyone that doesn’t know. This 9 minute video must have taken hundreds of takes to make.
How safe is your password?
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Did you know that a five digit alphabetic password can be cracked in 20 minutes. Quadruple the length to 20 digits, and it would take 63 quadrillion years (no really). I think most of my passwords are pretty secure, the one for this site is a combination of three different passwords, which makes it… 19 digits, alphanumeric with uppercase letters. Unless you have a CRAY, bring it on
Grow your own 1up Mushroom
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The instructions are pretty simple. All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it's off to a dark location for a few weeks. Break out our NES to relive some classic Mario memories, then three weeks later, check on it and hopefull find your very own 1up mushroom.
I've ordered mine, I'll post pics when it comes.
Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever
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Some of these show innovation, but others are just stupid. The 'Safetype keyboard' for example. How are you supposed to reach the keys in the middle when your fingers are on the outside. Then theres the IR keyboard which projects a virtual keyboard and monitors where your hand are. If god would have wanted man to type on light, he would have given him fingers made of shadows 
These should probably also have been included…
Senseboard
The Microwriter
