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Just For The Tech Of It: Pig hearts, eating with electricity, and hiding Earth from aliens

Electric forks can trick your tongue into tasting salt, pig-to-human heart transplants could be the answer to the worlds organ donor shortage, and how scientists plan to hide Earth from prying alien eyes.
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Watch this next-gen combat suit take a brutal beating

Unified Weapons Master is back with a new and improved version of its high-tech body armor: the Lorica Mk II
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America’s Greatest Makers is like American Idol for geeks, so we talked to one

At first glance, TBS's upcoming show 'America's Greatest Makers' seems like it's just Shark Tank meets American Idol -- but after talking with one of the shows contestants, we found out that it's actually more like a televised startup incubator from Intel
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Triton ‘artificial gill’ creators cancel $800K Indiegogo campaign, re-launch with new video

The creators of the controversial Triton scuba mask have canceled their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, and relaunched with additional information.
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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Beer brewers, LED strips, and weatherproof UAVs

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just for the Tech Of It: Transparent wood, fly-bombing drones, a ninth planet

Genetically modified flies dropped by drone could solve Ethiopia's tsetse fly problem, transparent wood is the material of the future, and a new planet could be lurking somewhere in our solar system, but we can't even see it.
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Are these ‘artificial gills’ a diver’s dream or crowdsourced snake oil?

Triton is essentially a tankless scuba mask that works like a pair of artificial gills -- but now that the creators have taken the contraption to Indiegogo, we're not completely convinced this isn't just an elaborate hoax
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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Electric Legos, robo-wheelchairs, and more

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just For The Tech Of It: Genetically modified maggots, 3D printing in space, and more

This week on Just For The Tech Of It, host Drew Prindle gives you the lowdown on how scientists are using genetically modified maggots in medicine, 3D printing in space, and how CRISPR can eliminate HIV.
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This $99 box transforms any smartphone into a 3D printer. No, seriously

Unveiled at Maker Faire New York last week, OLO is designed to take any smartphone under the sun and transform it into a fully-functional 3D printer.
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Apple’s new recycling robot rips old iPhones apart in search of gold, and more

Rather than the usual parade of stats and milestones, CEO Tim Cook started off today's Apple event by unveiling something totally new and different -- a robotic arm that's designed to break down old iPhones and separate all their component parts for recycling.
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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Unforgettable umbrellas, wooden speakers

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just for the tech of it: Air pollution pigeons, plastic eating bacteria, and more

On this week's episode of Just For The Tech Of It, Drew gives us the lowdown on three big fights: How scientists are using machine learning to fight terrorism, how pigeons are fighting pollution in London, and how a new strain of bacteria could help us fight plastic pollution
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Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: high-tech Spandex, butter blasters, and more

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just For the Tech of It: Martian crops and dinosaur chickens

This week on Just For The Tech Of It, Drew gives us the scoop on growing vegetables in Martian soil, why Facebook is making its AI programs read children's books, and genetically modified dinosaur chickens.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Universal cables, ultraloud speakers, cheap LiDAR

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just For the Tech Of It: Monkey thought control, the ravages of microgravity

We discuss Scott Kelly's return to Earth after 340 days in space, supersonic planes that don't make sonic booms, and monkeys that can drive wheelchairs with nothing but a thought.
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This automated store in Sweden doesn’t have any human employees — only a smartphone app

This automated store in Viken, Sweden, is entirely unmanned. Patrons must use a smarphone or tablet to enter and purchase goods from it.
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Awesome tech you can't buy yet: UV shoe sanitizers, smart mounts, fish tank tech

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just for the tech of it: AI doctors, robot lawyers, headphones that get you high

AI is helping doctors fight cancer by reading their notes, a pair of headphones can get you high, and a free online robot will help you argue out of a parking ticket.
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Robot roundup: Meet the best (and sometimes most bizarre) bots in Barcelona

As one of the premiere tech events of the year, Mobile World Congress 2016 hosted a broad range of technologies and this year, we saw more robots than ever.
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Meet the Ardumower: a 3D-printed robotic lawn mower you can build for under $300

The Ardumower is a DIY robotic lawn mower that you can print and assemble yourself for about $250-$300.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Bluetooth breathalyzers, photo turntables, and more

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just for the tech of it: Bionic Olympics, eternal data storage, and ASMR

Apparently you can get high from listening to someone eat buffalo wings; Switzerland is starting a bionic version of the Olympics, and all your stupid vlog posts can be preserved until the end of the universe.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: 3D printing ceramic, swim trackers, collapsible bags

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just for the tech of it: 3-parent babies, DARPA brain implants, Taser hangovers

Tasers affect your brain worse than we thought, babies with three genetic parents are coming, and DARPA's new brain implant could be used to power bionic limbs.
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M3D Micro 3D printer review

M3D’s $350 Micro gets you plenty of bang for your buck, but it’s a bit too unreliable to stand toe-to-toe with more expensive 3D printers.
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3Doodler Start is a new low-temperature 3D printing pen designed for kids

It looks, feels, and operates almost exactly like the original 3Doodler, but the filament it uses can be melted at relatively low temperatures.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Graffiti printing, smarter shades, a caffeine cuff

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Just For The Tech Of It: Drone-snatching eagles and carnivorous plants that count

This week on Just For The Tech Of It, host Drew Prindle tells us about drone killing police eagles, strange genetic studies, and carnivorous plants that can count to 20.
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This modular exoskeleton lets disabled children walk on their own two feet

The Phoenix exoskeleton is essentially a wearable robot that augments and enhances the wearer's movements.
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Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: solar jackets, floating bonsai trees, and more

Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
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Weekend Workshop: How to build a laser engraver on the cheap

There are approximately a zillion DIY laser engraver tutorials on the Web, but of all the homemade builds we've come across, this one from Instructables user MichielD99 is definitely one of the best.
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Scientists plan to use genetically engineered mosquitoes to fight the spread of Zika virus

To stop the spread of a disease that causes birth defects, scientists will use genetic engineering to give mosquitoes birth defects.