Spirograph Laser Is The Poor Man’s Laser Show

February 22, 2008

This is a 3-axis laser spirograph, like the ones you played with in the early 1990s, except with lasers. The mirrors are controlled by a homemade PIC microcontroller, so it’s easy on the wallet. Throw in some h’orderves with some laser action and you got yourself a sexy party. And by sexy party, I […]

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Lightway Blinds Light Your Windowspace, Is Trippy

February 13, 2008

Designed by Damian Savio, Lightway is a blind-like system meant to light your window space. It is based off the Breezway window louver system, but has some essential differences:
The major difference being the Lightway uses organic OLED’s and advanced transparent Photovoltaic Nanoscale technology to allow sunlight to enter the household during the day […]

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Gene Silencing Makes Tearless Onions, Crybabies Rejoyce

February 5, 2008

So science has done it, again! One more thing to make our lives easier. Researchers in New Zealand and Japan have invented the tearless onion. Using a gene silencing technology called RNAi, Dr. Collin Eady and his band of crazy scientists found a way to shut down specific genes in onions. Dr. Eady is quoted […]

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