Archive for the ‘Product/Invention’ Category

Nimble Pancake Picking Robot

Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Look at this thing fly. No humans needed, just raw robotic speed and accuracy. The Flexpicker takes randomly distributed pancakes from a conveyor and stacks them to a predefined (selectable) stack pattern on a central conveyor and transports the stacks to a flow wrapper for outer wrapping. Found at YouTube from RGLumaAutomation via Singularity Hub.

The Rube Cadbury Cream Egg Device

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Things to do with a Cadbury Cream Egg besides eating it. Found at Funny or Die.

White Goat Paper Shredder Makes Toilet Paper

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Who thinks of these things?!? The shredded paper first goes into a hopper, where it is untangled in small batches, and its then dissolved in a pulper. Any foreign matter is removed in a tank, and the pulp consistency is adjusted. Next, the wet paper is thinned out and dried. The dry paper is wound [...]

Auto-Targeting Paintball Gun Turret

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
This is awesome! Some dude built an auto-targeting paintball gun turret for home security. Found at YouTube from 243rf34ew via walyou.

Penny-Shooting Business Card

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
From the Utterly Useless Invention Department: A business card that shoots pennies. Found at YouTube from clide8 via Julio Ojeda-Zapata.

Madtv’s iPad Parody

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
This is funnier than the iRack parody; the funniest thing about it, though, is that it was uploaded in 2007. Found at YouTube from Hapsanul.

Awesome Snomotractor From 1926

Monday, January 25th, 2010
Seriously, why isn’t this thing still around? It’s amazing! Found at LiveLeak.

How To Play Catch With Your Dog Without Playing Catch With Your Dog

Saturday, January 9th, 2010
This is what happens when engineers own dogs. Found at YouTube from sledjunk.

How Combination Locks Work

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
A demonstration of a wooden combination lock and an interesting vulnerability of master lock combination locks. Found at YouTube from Matthiaswandel.

A Sensible Road Test Of The Ford Fiesta

Monday, December 28th, 2009
Jeremy Clarkson does a proper roadtest with the Ford Fiesta. Found at YouTube from fcgrunn88.

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