Spin Chill turns beverages cold in 60 seconds

Spin Chill turns beverages cold in 60 seconds: "Since the earliest days of brewing beer and making wine, the search has been on for an easy, affordable method of chilling drinks quickly without diluting them in the process. Florida-based start-up Spin Chill claims to have a solution to this vexing problem with a portable device that (literally) turns beverages ice cold in 60 seconds."

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How Money Is Made - Making of the New Hundred Dollar Bill - Esquire

How Money Is Made - Making of the New Hundred Dollar Bill - Esquire: "Unless you're more of a player than we think you are, that new hundred-dollar bill coming this fall won't wind up in your pocket very often. But it may be America's most popular export, the most coveted bill in the world. And the story of the new hundred — still made by hand with ancient tools — is the story of American money itself. "

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New “Magic Number” inside Atoms Discovered: Scientific American

New “Magic Number” inside Atoms Discovered: Scientific American: "“Magic numbers” of protons and neutrons can make an atomic nucleus exceptionally stable—and a new one has just been added to the existing menagerie that helps sketch a fuller picture of the complicated inner workings of atoms."

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LG announces mass production of flexible OLED phone displays

LG announces mass production of flexible OLED phone displays: "LG today announced that it is to start mass producing flexible OLED display panels for smartphones. The company says that its technology uses plastic substrates rather than glass, and claims that a protective film on the back of the display makes it "unbreakable" as well as bendable."

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ARGO 8x8 XTI tackles the toughest lands (and waters) on Earth

ARGO 8x8 XTI tackles the toughest lands (and waters) on Earth: "Many vehicles claim to be "all terrain," but few of them can match the all-out, rove-over-anything capabilities of ARGO's line of 6x6s and 8x8s. The latest member of the amphibious family is the 8x8 XTI, a vehicle designed to reach the most remote worksites on Earth"

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Mayan calendar and why the world didn't end

Mayan calendar and why the world didn't end: "Will Dec. 21 2012 be the end of the world? We have made it, the end of the world didn't come on that day. There have been a lot of discussion on this topic. There were a lot of end of the world predictions and arguments saying that the world was going to end on Dec 21. What is the basis for these predictions?"

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Stand-alone earbud player puts the bite on music

Stand-alone earbud player puts the bite on music: "Want to listen to music in public but not be obvious about it? Until someone figures out how to make music play in your head, the next best thing might be Split. Developed by Greenwing Audio in Miami Beach. Florida, Split is a music player set in a pair of wireless, synchronized earbuds that are controlled by biting. Still under development, its the focus of a Kickstarter campaign running until October 31 to bring the player to market."

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World's first floating apartment build to commence in 2014

World's first floating apartment build to commence in 2014: "The Dutch are known for their ingenuity in taming it and using it to their advantage, but their systems for keeping water at bay are now being rethought by architect Koen Olthuis and his team at Waterstudio. While rising sea and river levels have inspired governments around the world to invest in better flood defenses, with the Citadel, Olthuis is embracing water-borne housing with particular vigor."

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Top 10 greatest guitar players all time

Top 10 greatest guitar players all time: "My picks for the top 10 greatest guitar players of all time, may be a little different than yours, but you can't disagree that these guys are fantastic. This is not necessarily the order that I would put them in from best to 10th best, it's really hard to pick the best ever."

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Hyundai and co give the Genesis Coupe a 1,000 hp stampede

Hyundai and co give the Genesis Coupe a 1,000 hp stampede: "Preparing for next month's SEMA Show, Hyundai has revealed an ultra-powerful version of its Genesis Coupe. With some serious wrenching by Bisimoto Engineering, the show car packs 1,000 horses of raw power – some 650 hp more than the stock Genesis Coupe V6. We can already see the white smoke."

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Review: Defender Bike Light

Review: Defender Bike Light: "Last year, a couple of MIT grads took to Kickstarter to raise production funds for their just-about-everything-proof bicycle light, the Defender. Made mainly from a solid block of aluminum, the light was reportedly tough as nails, waterproof, and very theft-resistant. It was also designed to look like the cylinder of a revolver. Well, the Kickstarter project was a success, and the light is now available for purchase. I got my hands on one, to see if it actually lives up to its makers' claims."

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Converting Cordless To Lithium Li-Po

Converting Cordless To Lithium Li-Po: "As time moves we find that our drill don't cut it any more as now there are all of these new powerful cordless drills with lithium but the price of one of them cost about an arm or leg so what do you do?

Convert them to lithium"

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