Hand-built Pocket Shelter micro home ready to hit the road

Hand-built Pocket Shelter micro home ready to hit the road: "Following in the footsteps of the Tiny Leaf and Tiny Tack homes, self-professed design geek Aaron Maret has finally completed his very own micro home on wheels. The Pocket Shelter home has been five years in the making, and Maret’s labor of love has paid off with a cozy portable eco-retreat ready for adventures around the United States."

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Segway-like robots designed to help firefighters and save lives

Segway-like robots designed to help firefighters and save lives: "“Quick, send in the robots!” Far-fetched as it may sound, fire-fighting robots are indeed coming closer and closer to common use. While some of them are intended to actually put out the flames, others are designed more to scout out structures before human firefighters enter, letting those people know how to safely get around and where to concentrate their efforts."

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The Chevy SS: The new sedan with Corvette soul

The Chevy SS: The new sedan with Corvette soul: "It has the Corvette and it has the Camaro, but since slicing Pontiac back in 2010, GM has lacked a non-premium rear-drive performance sedan in that same vein. The 2009 Pontiac G8, particularly the LS3 V8-powered GXP version, was the last car to fill that niche. The all-new Chevy SS puts the rear-drive performance sedan back in General Motors."

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Mind-controlled quadcopter flies using imaginary fists

Mind-controlled quadcopter flies using imaginary fists: "Researchers at the University of Minnesota have done away with all that tedious joystick work by developing a mind-controlled quadcopter. It may seem like the top item of next year’s Christmas list, but it also serves a very practical purpose. Using a skullcap fitted with a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), the University's College of Science and Engineering hopes to develop ways for people suffering from paralysis or neurodegenerative diseases to employ thought to control wheelchairs and other devices."

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Spinpod rotates your smartphone when the panoramic urge strikes

Spinpod rotates your smartphone when the panoramic urge strikes: "The continuous panorama function on digital cameras and smartphones can create stunning photographs in the right hands. But, to get that shot just right, those hands need to be steady. The Spinpod is a portable motion control unit which is designed to make creating panoramas easier, while removing the need for you to spin on the spot."

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The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mechanics

The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time - Popular Mechanics: "Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreams—time-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. That's why we're science-fiction maniacs and why we gathered up our top 100 movies. And if your favorite isn't on here, we want to hear about it. Warning: Here be spoilers. (For more great science fiction, check out The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Shows Ever.)"

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Printing off the paper - MIT Media Relations

Printing off the paper - MIT Media Relations: "CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Imagine being able to “print” an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run. Or a printer capable of printing … yet another printer?"

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hope you’re not too tired to read this… | clayzmama says......

hope you’re not too tired to read this… | clayzmama says......: "Check this out!  As many curbs as I’ve hit, I might just need these tires!  Resilient Tech has been testing these out for some time now, developing them for the military."

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Watch The World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot | Qualcomm Spark

Watch The World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot | Qualcomm Spark: "Dubbed the Cubestormer II, the world’s fastest Rubik’s Cube–solving robot drew big crowds in the exhibit area at the 2013 FIRST Competition in St. Louis (a robotics competition for kids ages 6 to 18). Built and programmed by UK-based Mike Dobson and David Gilday, the robot is constructed from four Lego Mindstorm NXT kits, controlled by a tricked-out Android app running on a smartphone. "

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Stratolaunch air launch system for spacecraft comes closer to reality

Stratolaunch air launch system for spacecraft comes closer to reality: "Back in December of 2011, Stratolaunch Systems announced that it was designing a new air launch system for both manned and unmanned spacecraft. Among other things, that system would require the construction of what would be the world’s largest aircraft. While some people might understandably be skeptical of such grand plans ever seeing the light of day, the company recently announced that a couple of important milestones have been reached that bring the project closer to fruition."

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Big Brother is here, and his name is PRISM

Big Brother is here, and his name is PRISM: "If there was any doubt that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was a prophetic piece of fiction, you can pretty much put that to rest. The more skeptical among us have claimed for years that, in the age of the internet, nobody has real privacy. During the last 24 hours, those fears emerged from the shadows. Details leaked of the secret US National Security Agency (NSA) program called PRISM, which may as well have been called Big Brother."

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Porsche's iconic 911 celebrates 50 years with a limited edition facelift

Porsche's iconic 911 celebrates 50 years with a limited edition facelift: "With over 820,000 Porsche 911s being built and sold over the past fifty years, one could say the model has been a bit of a hit. Since 1963 Porsche’s very much iconic model (and we can use iconic here in proper context) has been the mainstay of the German automaker's performance hut. Now fifty years on it seems only fitting for the company to celebrate the car with the release of its 911 50th Anniversary Edition."

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