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The character known as Handala, created by Naji Al-Ali in 1969, is making an imprint on art and as a protest symbol....
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A Combination Carabiner/Rope Tightener
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A pickup truck isn't anything without tie-down gear, which all have their pain points. Ratchet straps are the go-to for hauling larger items, but they're overkill for smaller...
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Snooper Trucks: Specialty Vehicles for Underbridge Inspections
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As infrastructure spread across America in the 20th century, we learned that bridges periodically need to be inspected. Having a look at the road surface was easy; just shut...
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Drones vs. High-Up Graffiti
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Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant...
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A Battery-Powered Jacket-Inflating Personal Cooling Device
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I started out wanting to make fun of this thing, but realize that's my climate-controlled-workplace privilege. I'm lucky I don't work in torching conditions anymore; years ago...
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Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins
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I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision:
That's the Wabi-Sabi...
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Vessels Made from Wood Offcuts, Borrowing a Ceramics Technique
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What can you do with tiny offcuts of wood?
For Brooklyn-based furniture maker Richard Haining, the scraps of others are the raw materials for his STACKED series of...
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This Wind bench, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, combines digital fabrication with hand craftsmanship.
Made of birch plywood, the pieces were produced in slices on a CNC...
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Mechanical Engineering Students Invent Leaf Blower Silencer
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At Johns Hopkins University, a Mechanical Engineering class was given a difficult assignment: To silence an off-the-shelf leaf blower, without reducing its...
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Outside-the-Box Thinking: Helinox's Cot Tent
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Years ago on a trip to Death Valley, I slept in a tiny one-man tent. The host had provided a cot inside to elevate the sleeping bag. Although the space was coffin-like,...
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Monocab is a new form of transportation that makes use of existing infrastructure. Conceived of by German design engineer Thorsten Försterling, the idea is that rural areas of...
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Canfield Scientific, a manufacturer of imaging systems for science and healthcare applications, wanted to refresh their Vectra H1 handheld system. They contacted industrial...
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