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Coffee Joulies – your coffee, just right by Dave & Dave. Many thanks to all our backers for your support!!

Coffee Joulies – your coffee, just right by Dave & Dave

If you missed out on our Kickstarter campaign head to Joulies.com where you can sign up to be notified as soon as Coffee Joulies are available to order. You can also follow us on twitter @coffeejoulies and on facebook.com/coffeejoulies to stay up to speed on our activities. Best regards,Dave & Dave Coffee Joulies will now be made in the USA :-) Hey Kickstarters, thanks for checking out our project! Coffee Joulies work with your coffee to achieve two goals. This amazing feat of thermodynamics happens thanks to a special non-toxic material sealed within the polished stainless steel shell. The better insulated your cup, the better Coffee Joulies work. In a well-made vacuum thermos, on the other hand, Joulies will keep your coffee in the right temperature range for over five hours. Fleshbot Reviews the Real Touch, a Video-Synchronized Masturbator. Into the abyss: The diving suit that turns men into fish - Science - News.

The invention of scuba diving has allowed us to breathe underwater but only at very shallow depths.

Into the abyss: The diving suit that turns men into fish - Science - News

Thanks to our inability to conquer the bends, diving below 70m still remains astonishingly dangerous to anyone but a handful of experts. Ultra-deep diving is so lethal that more people have walked on the moon than descended below 240m using scuba gear. Now an inventor in the United States believes he has solved the riddle of how to get humans down to serious depths – by getting us to breathe liquid like fish.

Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules. The idea immediately conjures up the terrifying spectre of drowning but our lungs are more than capable of taking oxygen from a solution. 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America. Know yourself. Live better.

Strange New Products. Outdoors: Camping Knork (12pk) - Detail. Surprising Ideas that Made Millions. Theamazingjellyfish.com. Glow-in-the-dark lamps made from dead JELLYFISH. By Deborah Arthurs Published: 16:09 GMT, 12 March 2012 | Updated: 18:56 GMT, 12 March 2012 Could this be the best ever use for a deceased jellyfish?

Glow-in-the-dark lamps made from dead JELLYFISH

A bright spark has found an ingenious use for the corpses of the sea creatures: making them into glow-in-the-dark lamps. U.S. firm The Amazing Jellyfish (theamazingjellyfish.com) take the bioluminescent bodies of creatures that have died of natural causes and encase them in resin, thus preserving not just their bodies, but also their incredible glow-in-the-dark properties. Thanks to the phosphur proteins in their bodies - part of the defence mechanism that they use to frighten predators - jellyfish absorb light naturally, and emit it with an ethereal blueish glow when under darkened conditions. Bright spark: U.S. firm theamazingjellyfish.com has found a way of encasing deceased jellyfish in resin to preserve not only their bodies but their natural bioluminescence too Their colour is determined by both their food source and their environment. Ethic Soup: Hey, Hey, FDA, Whaddaya Say: Are E-Cigarettes Safe, Okay? (Top Photo) Smoke in lungs: dangerous to your health (Bottom) No smoke: battery-powered, electronic cigarette What the hell is an e-cigarette?

Ethic Soup: Hey, Hey, FDA, Whaddaya Say: Are E-Cigarettes Safe, Okay?

Is it dangerous or safe? Is marketing the fake cigarette ethical? And, where is the Food and Drug Administration on this? Rice Cube: Aussie gadget works like sushi Tetris. I have attempted to make sushi at home using a bamboo mat, seaweed, vegetables, sushi rice, and fumbling fingers.

Rice Cube: Aussie gadget works like sushi Tetris

The resulting rolls bore a vague resemblance to the real thing, but they would have gotten me laughed off the set of any respectable cooking show. The Rice Cube sushi maker promises relief for enthusiastic, but ultimately incompetent, home sushi chefs. This kitchen gadget looks like it was pulled from a game of Tetris and given 3D life in bright red plastic. The small device squishes rice, fish, and other ingredients into perfect little squares that will make your potluck buddies envious. It works through a series of pushing and sliding motions. There's no reason to stop at sushi, though. Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem. Sometimes something begs for a simple solution.

Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem

The nearly-ubiquitous USB port is perhaps the technological poster child for an obvious failure to work both ways (right-side-up or upside-down) despite looking perfectly symmetrical on both sides. Thankfully, and finally, this has been tackled from two directions (appropriately enough): one more idealistic, one more realistic, but both ingenious. Ma Yi Xuan is a student designer who has solved the problem in theory, and in reality by UltraTek‘s new Flipper. These answers have been a long time coming.

This author, for example, has bend more than one USB plug (and port), though fortunately only destroyed one to date. In the student version, there is a piece on either side of the interior that slides out of the way to reveal a data connection – which half moves depends on what way the plug is placed into the accepting slot.