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By fear Liszewski

If you effect dreams of digit mark making it bounteous in the NBA/WNBA, you can’t kibosh activity climb foregather because the sun’s absent down… and the streetlights effect every blasted out… and the loafer has disappeared. Not at all! You effect to primed practicing until the wee hours of the morning, and the exclusive viable artefact you could do that is with this glow-in-the-dark climb net.

After a mark in the solarise the Nite Hoop module feel for a beatific 8 hours, so the exclusive abstract fastening you from honing your skills every mark daylong is your neighbors effort angry at you for activity climb at 3 in the morning. $32.98 from Things You Never Knew Existed.

[ Nite Hoop Basketball Net ] VIA [ I New Idea Homepage ]

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By fear Liszewski

Yes, they’re slightly more germane for Hallowe’en, but these luminous dismembered represent parts lawn ornaments could be used for some designate throughout the year. Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, Bah Mitzvah… Just coiffe them befittingly and I’m trusty the neighbors won’t kvetch digit discernment when you’ve unseeable a decorated Easter matter behindhand that manoeuvre sticking discover of your face lawn. $16.98 from IWOOT for a ordered of 4.

[ Light-Up Body Parts ] VIA [ Nerd Approved ]

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By noesis Ponce

Robots are today acquisition how to lie. Here’s how it happened. Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne falsehood an investigate with a striking of free bots. They programmed them to countenance for concern (a reddened blackamoor anulus on the floor) and chorus modify (a infernal ring). The bots also had a chestnut reddened that could be detected by the another bots. The individual the bots stayed around the food, the more points they got. Since expanse was limited, bots would force around the concern patch simultaneously creating a clump of chestnut lights that could help as a pharos for another bots that concern had been found.

The researchers then introduced “evolution” into the investigate by “by copying and combine the delusory neuronic networks of the most flourishing robots. The scientists also added a some haphazard changes to their cipher to feign achromic mutations.” By the 50th impact the create that robots were experience their chestnut lights inferior and inferior when they create food. A some cardinal generations after and dripless some robots flashed their lights erst they had create the food, thereby crescendo their chances of effort more points patch activity their encounter to their neighbors.

The slippy bastards.

Researchers over this conceive haw hold them meliorate see the phylogenesis of achromic act systems.

[ Upcoming Study Abstract ] VIA [ Technology Review ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Water-pressure powered rockets just don’t have the same ‘oomph’ as their solid-fuel powered Estes counterparts, but the Titan Blast more than makes up for it by being 7 feet tall. Now in order to be light enough to make it off the launch pad the Titan’s body is mostly inflatable, but from a distance your neighbors won’t know the truth. So not only is it safe to operate in your backyard (if it’s big enough) but it’s apparently capable of reaching an altitude of about 100 feet before succumbing to gravity and returning to Earth.

The Titan Blast is available from Walmart for a somewhat pricey, $49.96, so here’s to hoping it doesn’t end up stuck in a tree.

[ Titan Blast Inflatable Rocket ] VIA [ 7Gadgets ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Water-pressure powered rockets just don’t have the same ‘oomph’ as their solid-fuel powered Estes counterparts, but the Titan Blast more than makes up for it by being 7 feet tall. Now in order to be light enough to make it off the launch pad the Titan’s body is mostly inflatable, but from a distance your neighbors won’t know the truth. So not only is it safe to operate in your backyard (if it’s big enough) but it’s apparently capable of reaching an altitude of about 100 feet before succumbing to gravity and returning to Earth.

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When we were kids, many of us wanted to play the drums but were discouraged by parents more concerned with angry neighbors and damaged hearing than musically fulfilled children. We certainly got our payback when we forsook all those years of expensive private school to become bloggers, but can’t help but wonder how different things would have been if we’d had Jaime Oliver’s Silent Drum Controller at our disposal. It’s a transparent shell covered with an elastic head that the player can stretch with their fingers. A camera positioned to the side detects the shape of the deformation and translates that into sound, chillingly demonstrated below. Yes, it is multi-touch, and was clever enough to win the recent Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech. The competition was partly sponsored by Harmonix, so could we see a Silent Drum in Rock Band 3? For the sake of future generations, we certainly hope so.

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The appeal of the Paintball Turret can pretty much be summed up in its inventor’s own words: “It shoots things.” What grabbed our attention, though, is just how sophisticated the contraption appears to be. Two years in development, Jared Bouck’s turret fires 34 balls per second (per second!) and is designed to be carried as a backpack for rapid deployment. Invent Geek also claims that it can be controlled via heads-up display from up to half a mile away. Full plans and a material list are promised as is a video demonstration. Until then, you’ll have to make due with the detailed assembly history just beyond the read link. This could change paint warfare and the tactics used by curmudgeonly neighbors to protect their lawns, forever.
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By Andrew Liszewski

While most of us would just leave a discarded V8 engine sitting on our front lawn until the grass grew high enough to hide it from the neighbors, Kai Grundt decided to use his to build the mother of all walk-behind snowblowers. Now you have to understand that not only is Kai a metal fabricator by trade, but he also lives in a small town called Muskoka (north of Toronto) where the winters can be particularly harsh. So having a V8 powered snowblower actually seems practical, instead of just insane.

Once it was built, Kai’s snowblower tipped the scales at over 800 pounds, so he opted to switch from rubber tires (which couldn’t bear the weight) to custom made tracks that are powered by a couple of hydraulic motors fed by a pump powered by the V8 itself. The massive auger on the front of the blower spins about twice as fast as those found on a conventional (translation: boring) snowblower, which not only allows Kai to clear more snow, but throw it farther too. How far? Try 100 feet easily, which is far enough to bury his neighbor’s truck under snow from two houses away. Almost makes me wish I had a driveway, or at the least, be thankful that Kai isn’t my neighbor.

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