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Natural disasters leave architecture in ruins, causing millions upon millions of dollars in damages. On a Greek mountainside, plans are under way in creating a self-healing house made of nano polymer particles. These particles, when applied under pressure during an earthquake, will flow into cracks and harden to form solid material, which would greatly decrease the chance of a collapse ...

Here’s a pretty nifty DIY for the pack rat in all of us. If you have a pile of old water bottles laying around and throwing them out just isn’t an option for you, here’s a useful purpose. Just crunch the bottle flat and slip your feet in between the label and the flattened bottle. Sure, it might look stupid ...

We’re all so, so lazy. With a show of hands, who actually enjoys mowing their lawn other than Forest Gump? Hmm, nobody? Understandable. Allergies are my excuse. LawnBott makes excuses unneeded. The LawnBott LB2000 Professional Robot Mower is a fully autonomous lawn mower which will mow your lawn for you daily if left on the programmed dock. If you have ...

Usually I have my handy bathroom reader with me when I’m conducting my, erm, business. Though when your in a bathroom like mine, where you barely have enough room to fit your legs in to sit, it’s sometimes better to conserve the little room you have. The Mind Trainer Toilet Paper comes with a collection of 10 brain exercising games ...

It seems that a new concept for seating arrangements might make planes even more uncomfortably intimate. The Freedom concept (Freedom, my ass) by Premium Aircraft Interior Group, would create an additional column of seats by positioning passengers in opposite directions. The design �enables their shoulders to overlap, minimizing the width of an armrest between each occupant�. Yeah, that’s just what ...

Gamers have been waiting for this announcement for who the hell knows how long. It seems that the possibility of a portable Xbox 360 is all but officially confirmed. Peripheral company, Hori, prematurely announced their release of a no-hassle Compact TFT Monitor EX, an LCD that easily connects to the Xbox 360 with very minimal effort. The 12.1 inch monitor ...

We know that some of you readers are bound to have a fine knowledge of wines, which leads to having collections worth thousands and thousand of dollars. Do you ever worry one od your guests will sneak down there on a drunken rampage and start stealing and breaking your finest bottles? Well if you have the money to throw away ...

Samsung released pictures of three new concept PCs they’ve got in the works and they are pretty out of this world. No specs yet, and frankly, I don’t even think Samsung knows yet. Talk about conceptual. The one pictured above looks like a cross between a UFO and a witch’s hat. We don’t even know what to think about these. ...

Here’s a cool little image gallery we found showing a bunch of images which show geek culture at its, well, geekiest. There’s a ton more pics over at the site, but here are a few of our favorites. Some of the pictures have been seen before, but a lot of them are new to us. Check it out. You won’t ...

Intel has some pretty cool stuff up their sleeves as of late. This “Metro Notebook” concept is Intel’s attempt at creating a restyled, ultra-slim and ultra-light laptop that takes into consideration, the young urbanites need for class and style. The sub-0.7 thick, 1 kg sized Metro has an outside display built into the back of the monitor which serves as ...