FDA Finds Majority of Herbal Supplements Don’t Contain What They Claim

Due to strict regulations by the FDA on prescription medications, all manufacturers and retailers are required to label all ingredients present in supplements correctly. However, the FDA has found that most of the herbal supplements…

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Robot Arm Imitates Gecko’s Tongue to Easily Pick Up Mugs, Glasses, and More!

The engineers over at Festo have developed a water filled gripper, shaped like a lava lamp, capable of picking up items just as easily as the human hand. In order to achieve ultimate precision when…

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4×4 Isn’t Enough: This 6×6 Kahn Flying Huntsman is Ready to Take Over the World!

The British tuning shop Kahn Design has unveiled a 6×6 version of the Land Rover Defender at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. Dubbed the Kahn Flying Huntsman, it is based on the Land Rover Defender 110.…

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The RAHT RACER: A 100 MPH Pedal Electric Hybrid Bicycle!

If you love biking to work, but face the problems like carrying certain important things, have a hard time riding in wet weather, and wish it to be faster and safer, then the Raht Racer…

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World’s First Carbon Positive House Produces More Energy Than It Uses

ArchiBlox, a modular buildings specialist, has recently unveiled Australia’s first carbon-positive prefab home. A prototype of this prefab home has been installed in Melbourne’s City Square. This compact carbon-positive house with ‘edible garden walls’, a…

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8-Bit Gun Made From an Old Game Boy, a Camera, a Thermal Printer, and Arduino

Useless items are sometimes the coolest items, and this 8-bit gun is certainly no exception. Moscow-based media-artist and musician Dmitry Morozov created the 8-bit camera gun out of an old Game Boy, a camera, a…

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Check Out This POV Tour From the MS Renata Around the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands

Watching a container ship maneuver in and out of the nooks and crannies around a dock doesn’t sound intriguing, but it is actually more interesting than I’d like to admit. I, for one, have never…

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Advances in Photonics Leading to Greener Electronic Manufacturing & Devices

Optoelectronics, aka “optronics,” is generally the use of visible light and circuitry in electronics and is part of the field of photonics. Optronic devices source, detect, and control light and convert electricity to light and…

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Google Teaming Up With Johnson & Johnson to Build a Robotic Surgery Assistance Platform

Google and Johnson & Johnson announced today that the two companies will be working together in order to develop a robotic surgery assistance platform. The idea is to ultimately create “new robotic tools and capabilities,”…

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A World Without Wires Pushing Limits of Wireless Spectrum

In just the past few days, Twitter has quickly brought its new real-time video streaming software, Periscope, to the iPhone to compete with startup competitor Meerkat which recently increased its usership by 250,000 in just…

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