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Tech

Bomb Defusal Made Easy with iRobot’s Throwable Bot

10.24.13

By Derek Mead
Tech

Sulfur Batteries Could Power Your Smartphone Four Times Longer

06.06.13

By Jason Koebler
Rolling into the Future with Inventist Shane Chen

04.26.13

By Alex Mierjeski
Tech

A Brief History of the Monocycle, Humanity’s Most Useless Vehicle

01.31.13

By Brian Merchant
Dean Kamen—Inventor of the Segway—Made a Bulimia Machine

01.23.13

By Gregory Pike
Tech

Exhaust Burger: Why Iranians Invented the Most American BBQ Ever

09.19.12

By Brian Merchant
Tech

In the 1930s, the Home of the Future Was a Ball You Towed by Tractor

03.27.12

By Derek Mead
Tech

The Technological Disobedience of Ernesto Oroza: In Isolated Cuba, Inventing to Survive

08.31.10

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Entertainment

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04.01.08

By David Wallechinsky; Illustrations: Laura Park

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Music

Foo Fighters Producer Elliot Scheiner Once Had a Car Delivered to the Studio so the Band Could Hear Their Mixes Better

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