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Innovative Engineering: How a Tesla Model S is Made
The Vehicles Made by Tesla Motors are the Tip of Their Innovation Iceberg Its widely understood that Elon Musk has revolutionized the auto industry with his innovative and forward thinking company Tesla automobiles. What is lesser knows in how he…
MoreThe One-Man-Band has been Perfected in the Wintergatan Marble Machine
Martin Molin Proves All You Need is Imagination with His Beautifully Complex Music Machine Martin Molin is a musician as well as an imaginative inventor, deft fabricator and an ingenious mathematician. Over the past couple of years he has been…
MoreThe Floppotron Plays Nirvana In a Digital Music Cacophony
Broken Ipod? Busted Walkman? Never fear the The Floppotron is here! You’re sitting around with nothing to do, like most people you reach for your iPod or iPhone to play some tunes. Maybe rock out to a classic Nirvana jam?…
MoreEngineering the PERFECT Man-Made Wave with Kelly Slater
How to catch a 6 foot wave even when you’re hundreds of miles from the ocean! Most people are familiar with wave pools. You’ve seen them at the water-park or the amusement park and even on cruise ships. These consumer-grade…
MoreThis Electric Violin Lady will Blow Your Mind – Plus: The World’s Smallest Violin
British Lady Named Lettuce Rocks out on Electric Violin There are many interesting (strange?) aspects of this video. First, the lady’s name is Lettuce. Yes, Lettuce like the salad, not Lucy or Alice or Lattice…Lettuce. She is also kind-of a…
MoreMad-Scientist Builds Hover-Bike in Shed – Hilarity Ensues
See how Colin Furze Designs and Builds a Working Flying Bicycle! Colin Furze is a REAL mad-scientist, and has the resume to back it up. Although his “scientist” credentials are of the DIY variety, the “mad” part is well documented.…
MoreBuild the World’s Fastest Pinewood Derby Car
How to Dominate Cub Scouts with a Rules-Legal Pinewood Derby Car, Using Science! Anyone who’s ever met a Cub Scout knows about the pinewood derby, it’s arguably the coolest thing they do. Well it’s the coolest indoor activity they do…
MoreFun with STEM Tech: Tiny grains of couscous dance into perfect geometric patterns
Using wave dynamics, Random couscous snaps into beautiful patterns Science is fun, and to prove it our friend, Steve Mould, will create beautiful geometric art using nothing but “wave dynamics.” This is one of those experiments you SHOULD do at…
MoreDude with a Hockey Stick Picks a Fight with a Robot and Lives to Tell the Tale
Boston Dynamics new “Atlas” Robot is the Most Patient Punching Bag You Will Ever Kick File this guy’s obvious abuse of power under: “bad ideas.” Apparently, he’s never seen, nor heard of, any of the Terminator movies. Anyone familiar with the…
MoreRail Gun: Gamer Tech Comes to Life in the US Navy
Sci-Fi Technology: Designed by BAE Systems the Infamous Rail Gun Becomes a Reality! For many, including myself their first exposure to the infamous “Rail Gun” was a theoretical weapon in science fiction or video games. Specifically, the first time…
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