Strange Inventions
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Technology
Strange Inventions: An Extra Eye for When You’re Reading Your Smartphone
Some inventions make lives better. Others provide solutions to problems that can also be solved by looking up. Here we…
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Microsoft Patent Suggests Simulating the Dead With AI Chatbots
One of the more unusual eventualities of artificial intelligence is that it may one day be used to resurrect the…
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Strange Patents: Sony’s Fluffy Gamer Pal Robot
Now’s the time when a lot of people are stuck at home. They’re bored. They’re out of their wits. They’re…
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Strange Inventions: The Isolator (1925)
What’s that? You tried out NaNoWriMo last month but just couldn’t find the opportunity to sit down and concentrate? Happens to the…
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The Ghostly Voice of Joseph Faber’s Euphonia
Behold, Joseph Faber’s Euphonia. This curious amalgamation of various mechanical parts was exhibited in December 1845 at the Music Fund…
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Strange Patents: The High Five Machine
If there’s one mystery of the universe I’ve never fully understood, it’s what to do when I feel like giving…
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Sony’s “Brain Stimulation” Technology
Imagine if we could throw away the controllers of old and instead plug ourselves into a video game console. We’d…
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