Month December 2016

Loog Starter Guitar Kit for Kids With just 3 strings and a narrow neck, Loog makes it easier for kids to learn the basics of playing…

Deep underground, there is a massive river of molten iron flowing around the Earth’s core. It’s moving westward under Alaska and Siberia and it’s speeding up. The river lies 3,000 kilometres beneath the surface of Earth. It’s 420 km wide and 7,000 km long…

Flickr / hehaden You can tell a lot about someone by looking at what apps they have on their home screen — and, sometimes, how many notifications each of those apps have. So, we asked a grab bag of entrepreneurs, executives, and…

Fear is an essential part of the human condition that’s deeply rooted in our most primal instincts. For most of the hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, this was a very good thing: It was necessary for our…

Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have created a “bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper.” The project is aimed at creating batteries for disposable microelectronics that can run for weeks using a little bacteria-rich liquid. “The manufacturing…

Ever wondered what it would be like if the spirit of Philip Glass inhabited one of your web browser tabs? Well, now he can. Sort of. “Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator” is a browser-based, JavaScript-powered harmonic exploration tool. Punch in a…

2016 was the year when people said, hey, I want to get in on some of that modular goodness, but … maybe I don’t want to buy a rack and spend thousands of dollars to do that. So it’s great…

This laser band claims to reverse hair loss The ‘HairMax’ laser band stimulates the natural growth cycle of hair. Tara Flanigan less than a minute ago from Mashable! via IFTTT