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11.10.09

Inventor Scales Building Using Homemade Vacuum Gloves

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 07.27.2009 at 10:19 am 1 Comment

Nothing puts the DIY in climbing a building like a homemade pair of suction gloves. Inventor Jem Stansfield used his vacuum-powered device to clamber up the 120-foot aluminum wall of the White City building in London last week.

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Kitchen Alchemy

Chocolate-Chip Science

Two days' hydration makes a flawless cookie, but the Kitchen Alchemists don't need to wait that long
By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot Posted 07.17.2008 at 4:07 pm 3 Comments

I think that everyone in New York City read last week's article by David Leite on the Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie. One of the main tricks from the article is to rest your dough for 36 hours before baking the cookies in order to improve the flavor. In my work as a chef I have often made cookie dough in advance and baked to order. I knew that refrigeration had beneficial effects although I had never tested the theory to the extent that David Leite did for the article.

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Roomba Rumble

By popsci Posted 03.09.2006 at 11:00 am 1 Comment

Courtesy Gina Trapani

The Roomba's new serial interface lets you use the little vacuum for any robotics task you like, controllable through preprogrammed instructions or over Bluetooth from a laptop. We wrote about some 'bots you could make with this in the January issue's How 2.0 section, but the obvious outcome was finally realized last night at ETech: Roomba cockfighting. More photos as well as videos (including some from the Roomba's point of view) here.

—Mike Haney

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