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Sandstorms from China hits Korea

Sandstorms hitting Korea from China has worsened over the last couple years. A Sandstorm can really make a city quicky sandy like the picture above. I remember living in Korea couple years ago but sandstorms weren’t as bad then. Due to China’s exponential growth of factories, pollution, and what not, Koreans are being killed and slaughtered by the mass sandy pollution.

“There is an increasing possibility that yellow dust will appear some time between Thursday night and Friday,” South Korea’s Meteorological Administra

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Virtual Reality Backpack

Check out augmented reality backpack from Tinmith! This seems almost like a physical layer of Second Life.

Welcome to the new Tinmith backpack 2006. As you can see from the images of our previous systems below, the new version is lighter and more robust than ever! We have taken our eight years of experience in the field and built a system using the best components that are currently available. We have designed our ow

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DIY – How to build BEAM Vibrobots

If you haven’t checked out these funny looking really efficient vibrobots (which sounds funny too), make sure you do. They seems to run primarily on solar power and you can do a lot with it. (hopefully… :P)

In the current issue of MAKE (Vol. 8), I have a piece on

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Smalled RFID tags are smaller than human hair!

Check out the new RFID tags that are smaller than human hair from Hitachi Japan!

The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002×0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder.

They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi says.

RFID tags store data about the objects they are attached to, and companies are vying to create increasingly tiny versions.

Recently, Hitachi unveiled anoth

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MAKE Magazine Volume 09

All right, we just got our vol. 09 of Make magazine! Get yours at your local bookstore such as Barnes and Noble or Tower Records!

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Wii HACK – Wiimote Controlled Robot

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsMqr3Lxw0

Here’s a simple but a cool hack on controlling a LEGO robot arm using the Nintendo Wii controller!

Make sure to check out the industrial robot arm controlled by Wiimote also!

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Talented teen transforms cooking oil into fuel!

Wow, this is good for our earth… We need more kids like this.

He happily admits he’s hopeless at school – but Steven Henderson is Tyneside’s very own oil baron.

Northumberland’s answer to JR Ewing has built his own oil refinery

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Use VelaSmooth to get rid of Cellulite! (Only $44,000!)

Check out VelaSmooth, the ONLY FDA approved product currently out on the market that gets rid of cellulite. No this is not a commercial but if you’ve tried this machine, you can leave some comments about it.  You can get one for around $44,000 on ebay.  If it’s that expensive, it must work.

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4 CNC Machine Plans

We were thinking about building our own CNC machines lately and found this one.

Check out these 4 CNC machines you can make using the plans.

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DIY – solar air convection heater for a garage

video://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5910843921880269524&hl=en

Check out this simple solar air convection heater you can make for your garage. Nice~

via instructables

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