Author Archives: Marshall Smith

Cooking Thermite in the Kitchen Will Result in a Hole in Your Stove

Add it to the list of things I’ve never done and probably will never do… Cooking thermite on a stovetop. After all, it just sounds like a bad idea. As you would guess, the experiment…

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International Space Station Has Experienced a Small Electrical Fault With No Quick Fix

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will have to do without one power channel for the time being due to a small electrical fault, NASA has announced. NASA says the fault reduces the available power…

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The EcoLog 590D is a 20,000-Pound Tree Cutting Machine With a LogMax 7000 Head

While not much is known about the EcoLog 590D, it has managed to make the rounds on the internet recently, mostly because it looks like an absolute beast of a machine. Videos of the 20,000…

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See How the Manholes Scattered Across New York City are Made

National Geographic states in the video description: Filmmaker Natasha Raheja traces the origin of New York City’s famous manhole covers back to Howrah, India. In her film, Cast in India, she goes inside one of…

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Carvana’s Massive Car Vending Machine Might Be the Future of Transportation

We already have food and beverage vending machines, so it makes sense with the continuous advancement we are seeing in technology, a gigantic car vending machine would be next right? Carvana seems to think so,…

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How to Go to Space: Explained Using ONLY the 1,000 Most Common Words

This video is an example of why I love the internet. Just when I get annoyed with trolls, social media, or you name it, the internet provides us with something like this “How to Go…

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Car Burnout on an iPhone 6S Results in Things Getting Heated

I don’t know who comes up with these ideas or who has the money to buy an iPhone 6S just to burnout on it for that matter, but it makes for a lot of YouTube…

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Is MIT’s Shape-Shifting Snake Robot a Glimpse Into the Future?

Maybe there won’t be an army of humanoid robots who just all of the sudden one day take our jobs… MIT’s friendly snake robot seems to be a more realistic representation of what could be…

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Guy Flies Startup’s FAA Approved JB-9 Jetpack Around the Statue of Liberty

Here we go again with another jetpack demonstration sure to get everyone riled up. A startup called Jetpack Aviation is home to the only FAA and US Coast Guard approved jetpack, the JB-9 jetpack. In…

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Hasso Plattner Institute’s Protopiper Can Sketch Room Sized Objects at Actual Scale

3D printing is changing the way we do a whole lot of things, including the way we use regular household items. A team at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design created what they call the…

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