Watch These Guys Play Around With Their Homemade 250 Pound Railgun
A group of dudes got together and made their very own railgun. Watching them play around with it is pretty cool.

November 9, 2015 at 06:37PM
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Did This Guy Just Fly A Working Jetpack Around The Statue Of Liberty?
A Jetpack startup appears to have flown a prototype around The Statue Of Liberty. Now, if only we could fly these instead of taking the train to work.

November 9, 2015 at 05:56PM
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‘Minority Report’ Is Real – And It’s Really Reporting Minorities
Pre-crime policing tech isn’t just real, it’s now ubiquitous.

November 9, 2015 at 03:49PM
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The US Army Wants to Figure Out What Comes After Helicopters
The Black Hawk helicopter is a symbol of America at war: a name and image that instantly brings to mind the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu immortalized in Black Hawk Down and the Abbottabad raid that ended

November 9, 2015 at 03:49PM
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Watch A Flying Probe Tester Check Every Connection On A Circuit Board
Making sure everything is soldered together correctly is important — and time consuming. Which is why we build robots that do it instead.

November 9, 2015 at 03:21PM
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This Floating Contraption Could Scoop Out Absurd Amounts of Ocean Plastic
A 21-year-old named Boyan Slat says he can solve one of the greatest ecological disasters of our age: the build-up of vast amounts of plastic in our oceans.

November 9, 2015 at 01:48PM
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How Google Aims To Dominate Artificial Intelligence
The search giant is making its AI open source so anyone can use it.

November 9, 2015 at 12:39PM
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$130 Mug Promises To Keep Your Coffee At Exactly The Right Temperature
The Ember coffee mug is nearing 450% of its Indiegogo goal… what a time to be alive.

November 9, 2015 at 11:53AM
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We turned on the Nintendo PlayStation: It’s real and it works
The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced.

November 9, 2015 at 10:40AM
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What happened to passenger hovercrafts?
It’s 60 years since the British inventor Christopher Cockerell demonstrated the principles of the hovercraft using a cat food tin and a vacuum cleaner. Great things were promised for this mode of transport, but it never really caught on. Why?

November 9, 2015 at 10:40AM
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