The family home made of salvaged car scraps

The family home made of salvaged car scraps: "While the McGee house may look like any other new designer home in the neighborhood, its walls tell a different story. Designed by husband and wife team Karl Wanaselja and Cate Leger of Leger Wanaselja Architecture, the upper outside walls of the house are made from over 100 salvaged car roofs."

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New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spills

New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spills: "When oil gets spilled in a waterway, clean-up crews will often introduce a solution known as a surfactant. This is a detergent that lessens the surface tension between the water and the overlaying oil slick, causing the oil to form into individual droplets which then sink or get dispersed by wave action."

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Use your iPhone to change the effects on the iStomp pedal

Use your iPhone to change the effects on the iStomp pedal: "The never-ending quest for killer effects pedals is an expensive and time-consuming passion that most electric guitar players will have to endure for much of their playing careers (unless you're lucky enough to hit on the perfect setup early on, of course). Effects veteran DigiTech has developed a stompbox that could well put that quest to bed."

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ViewRanger outdoor GPS app combines mapping, social networking and trail guidebooks

ViewRanger outdoor GPS app combines mapping, social networking and trail guidebooks: "Imagine the power of a US$500 outdoor GPS built into a $5 app available on iOS and Android devices. In a nutshell, that's ViewRanger. The advanced mapping GPS app has been around for years in Europe and just launched in the United States."

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