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10 Most Brilliant Inventions of 2007 - R&D Magazine - Integrated Primary Flight Display
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R&D Magazine has put together a list of the 10 most brilliant inventions of 2007, the one that stood out for me was the Honeywell Integrated Primary Flight Display Read about the other inventions here. Video after the jump. “Integrated Primary Flight Display (IPFD) is Honeywell’s Synthetic Vision System (SVS) ― a new product that will be offered on multiple platforms for business jets. IPFD uses cues that pilots already

Unibot - 3D Stabilization
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Jascha van Pommeren created the Unibot, a robot that pivots on a single wheel. Video after the jump. “The Unibot is a self balancing unicycle robot. This robot combines the principles of the famous wheeled inverted pendulum and inertia wheel pendulum. A well known application of the wheeled inverted pendulum is the Segway. Take one wheel off the Segway and add an other one perpendicular to and above the remaining

Amazing AIR-Guitar Demonstration by Carlos Vamos
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  Amazing AIR-Guitar Demonstration by Carlos Vamos. He is a guitar playing master, the second video is non-technical but demonstrates how good he is! “Carlos Vamos demonstrates his Prototype hand made custom AIRguitar. The guitar neck is from Ibanez, the guitar body was build with the Kind help and cooperation of Marcus Van Engelen. The final guitar asembly and wiring was done by Carlos Vamos.” Via: Make

The Incredible Machine - Rube Goldberg Devices
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  Here is a collection of The Incredible Machine creations. Which one is your favorite? “The Incredible Machine (aka TIM) is a series of computer games that were originally designed and coded by Kevin Ryan and produced by Jeff Tunnell, the now-defunct Jeff Tunnell Productions, and published by Dynamix; the 1993 through 1995 versions had the same development team, but the later 2000–2001 titles had different designers. All versions were

ElmoSapien
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Just in time for Halloween, Robosapien get an Elmo costume and a voice change. Video after the jump. “He’s furry, red, and robotic! Meet ElmoSapien, the fusion of Sesame Street’s legendary Elmo puppet character and WowWee’s fantastic Robosapien RS Media robot. Like VaderSapien, ElmoSapien is out to dominate the world, but in funny, silly, way! Watch the video to see ElmoSapien in action.”

Huge 1GB IBM Hard Drive
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This is a 1GB IBM hard drive from about 20 years ago. Wow how technology has evolved! Do you think that the engineers of the day would guess that today we would have more than a hundred times that storage in your pocket which also by the way has a color screen, battery and the smarts to make it play audio and video? Here are some other hard drives to

Wicked Lasers Photonic Disruptor
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This Wicked Lasers Photonic Disruptor is some piece of equipment! If you are needing a laser to do power point presentations have a look at some of the other laser pointers that Wicked Laser offers, if you are looking for a non-lethal weapon then this may be for you! Watch the Future Weapons video of the Photonic Disruptor in action to get a sense of how it operates. “The Photonic