Egg unboil machine reveals Easter egg

Even though it sounds more like something from a cartoon or a superhero movie, the Vortex Fluidic Device invented by Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University in South Australia can undo hard-boiled eggs. Winner of the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he now claims that his machine may also have important medical and electronics applications as it can slice carbon nanotubes to uniform length with extreme precision.

I had the chance to drive the Tazzari Zero Electric Car a few days ago when Tech the Future visited Good!. The Tazzari looks funny, which is not necessarily a compliment when you're talking about cars. It reminded me of the Smart. It just looks smaller and it feels cheaper. Driving it turned out to be a big disappointment. Even the added qualification 'Made in Italy' couldn't make up for the bad experience. The interior of the car is futuristic looking. Switching gears (reverse and forward) is...

Food from far places can be really cheap, but flying over those tomatoes all the way from Argentina produces a lot of carbon-emission. And we can grow tomatoes just as well, without the excess emission! Buying local produce simply cuts the CO2-emissions and fuel-use needed for the transportation. I can imagine not everyone is aware of the distance your average veggies travel, and it can be hard to see what produce is local and what isn't. That's why I really like these clever package designs Ja...

Carbon Nanotubes are VERY TINY cylindrical shaped carbon molecules. And when I say very tiny, I mean in the nanometer-scale (hence the name). These cylindrical molecules can have a thickness of only 1 atom, and a diameter of down to 1 nanometer (which is 1 millionth of a millimeter). To get an indication of this scale: while you pronounce the word 'nanometer', your hair actually grows 10 nanometers. Anyway, scientists have been studying these carbon nanotubes for a while now, since they have ver...

Towards the end of the 19th century several researchers were developing ways and means of converting sound into electrical signals. The first usable carbon microphone was invented by David Edward Hughes (1831–1900).