01/14/2011, Bored of typing your tweets out on your phone or keyboard? Can’t be bothered to use voice recognition to dictate your tweets? Looking for another alternative way to tweet? Why not try tweeting with a telegraph machine. A man who goes by the name of joester5 on Twitter managed to create some sort of contraption that allows him to tweet with a telegraph machine he bought off eBay. With some […]

01/05/2011, If you’ve always wanted to create complex designs on your cake, but never had the skills or steady hands to pull off the job, the AutoFrost Cake Decorator was probably designed for you. A group of students from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering designed and built the handy cake decorator for a class project. All you have to do is draw a design in a Paint-like GUI, press a […]

03/19/2010, Have you ever wanted to put some cool graffiti on your wall, but just couldn’t find the effort to do so? Well, if fiddling with machines is more fun than spray painting to you, then you might just have a way out – the Graffiti Machine. The machine is controlled by a Linux box running the Enhanced Machine Controller and seems to be capable of producing some nice graffiti art. […]

01/29/2010, Do you think that there is too much paper being wasted in your office? Well, the smart folks over in a Japanese company called Oriental have come up with a machine called White Goat. If you’re wondering what a machine with such a funny name does, it converts your normal paper into toilet paper. Just pop in about 40 sheets of paper, and wait for 30 minutes, and you’ll get […]

09/02/2009, How do you exactly classify a fart – in terms of wind strength, or how stinky it is? A couple of Cornell University computer-engineering students managed to develop a machine, a fart detector, no less, that houses a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor no less, coupled with a thermometer and a microphone. They also came up with the software that is smart enough to rate whatever stink bombs you drop, basing […]