Just a dude experimenting with 244 batteries connected together.
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If you’ve ever gone out to eat, chances are you might have noticed a hair in your food. Does this make the food contaminated and unsafe to eat?
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Depression is a very serious mental illness that affects millions worldwide. Could a small brain implant cure it?
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It’s called a paternoster so technically not an elevator but it looks like one and does the same thing. I can only imagine someone’s hand getting stuck or foot and the agony that it would cause. It was made in 1913.
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This creepy looking velociraptor-inspired robot would be so good at chasing you down until your lungs pop out at 46km/h. To aid it in that pursuit and keep it from falling over, it also has a “tail” like a velociraptor would. Though not in any way you might recognize it. The Raptor’s tail takes the form of a spinning counterbalance that juts out from its side, offering the same stability benefits of a hind tail that swings side to side.
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A tailor made cap that pops a flag every hour to gently remind you to drink. When you twist the bottle cap shut after your refreshing sip, a timer begins automatically. Nothing new to do just twist the cap as you used to do but this time utility has been added. The program was launched in France in order to gauge consumers’ reactions and measure their behavioral changes.

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Have you heard about the Leap Motion controller and the Oculus Rift? If you haven’t you probably should because within your generation those technologies will change the way how we interact with computers. The Leap Motion controller has always looked awesome, but its performance didn’t quite live up to the promise. A software update is about to fix that, making every Leap Motion controller out there better in an instant. Check out the cool demo and imagine all the possibilities.

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Got milk? Fact is, most people don’t — and shouldn’t — because for them, ice cream and milkshakes are basically toxic. So why can some people drink milk and survive? Turns out they’re mutants!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the differences between weather and climate change.

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A helicopter smacks down a rock off a cliff face to eliminate a rock fall hazard for the road below. The helicopter then displays its dominance of the Fjord by urinating all over the rock face. This is done to loosen and remove any remaining small rocks that may fail at another time and cream a volvo or saab on the road below.
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Chopping 20 rows of corn with one machine. This is a concept which could become real in 2020. For now this is a test with a 15 meter wide chopper head it can chop of 20 rows of corn.

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Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation, and machine-learning technologies.
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This unbelievable display technology uses levitating particles as pixels. Researchers actually figured out how to levitate objects using nothing but sound years ago, but to date it’s really only been with single particles. This new research, from Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi, and Jun Rekimoto, presented at the annual Siggraph conference, involves hundreds of tiny specks, all strategically arranged in real-time to form images, and even moving animations.
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The expanding universe is a complicated place. During inflation the universe expanded faster than light, but that’s something that actually happens all the time, it’s happening right now.
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Google making self-driving cars is nothing new but this time they took out the steering wheel and the pedals. I’m just waiting until they take off the wheels and I will start investing in Google.
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