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Qmilch / Qmilk - the fiber made of white gold !

Don't dry over spilled milk—turn it into a textile!

This racy, but SFW spot introduces us to an incredible fabric, Qmilk, that's made from milk and apparently greatly resembles silk. Sustainable is sexy!

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Throw in the towel.

Literally, with the new Body Dryer. Currently in development after a successful crowd-funding campaign. 

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Somewhere in the American Southwest, there will soon be a "Gigafactory"

Elan Musk, visionary owner of Tesla Motors, seems intent on becoming the Henry Ford of the new millennium by bringing an affordable electric car to the masses. The key to this achievement will be the creation of a 5 billion dollar gigafactory to produce the prohibitively expensive batteries at a greatly reduced cost.

“It’s sort of like an industrial park under one roof,” Musk said. “Tesla’s producing the modules—Tesla’s sort of the overall landlord.”

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The totally wired London Underground.

Partnering with Microsoft and sensor developer CGI, the world's oldest subway system is now the most completely connected. Sensors on everything from HVAC units to elevators are constantly sending data to a centralized hub that dispatches repair crews as necessary. 

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Fight Alzheimer's disease in the virtual world, boost awareness in the real world. 

That's the simple goal of UK video game designer Gaz Bushell and biochemist Dr. Jody Mason. They collaborated to create a game that resembles a galactic shoot 'em up, but actually takes place inside a human brain battling Alzheimer's disease. They're calling it Cascade.

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Stop bumping into people on the street.

Smart insoles developed by MIT labs tickle your toes to indicate when and where you have to turn based on your phone's GPS. Keep your eyes on the world around you and keep your phone in your pocket.

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A new age of discovery is upon us. At least, that's what Land Rover is banking on with its new, innovative heads up display that uses grill-mounted cameras to project what's happening at the wheels onto the hood.

Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/1OlqditIsoM

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Tech visionary Nicholas Negroponte's latest vision for the future: swallowable information. 

Tiny pills that will deliver information through our bloodstream and into our neuro-pathways allowing us to "learn" instantaneously? Yes please.

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In this amazing video, Redbull Infinity unveils the tech behind the new rules for Formula 1 racing. It's so much more than a glimpse under the hood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFHmYFlbFn8

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This just in: Fat is out. Calories and added sugars are the new focus of the redesigned "nutrition facts" labels that will be present on all American food. The redesign is part of First Lady Michele Obama's Let's Move initiative to combat child obesity. 

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What's behind What's App's $16 million dollar acquisition? 

In a word: mindshare. What's App's popularity in parts of the world whose mobile markets are poised to go ballistic in the very near future is what makes it such an appealing service. Whether it's worth the $16M, remains to be seen.

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Are you a direction-follower or an improvisario? This is one of the core learnings we gained from our youth when we played with Legos. Did you follow the directions and make the race car pictured on the box, or did you create say...an exhaust pipe and tire-topped pizza?

Problem is, these days, the Lego video game does not allow for the improvisation and creativity that good old-fashioned Lego blocks allowed for. Instead, the video game heir apparent to the humble Lego appears to be Minecraft. Read more in this great New York Times article: http://nyti.ms/1fem9iD

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Global warming, now trackable on Google Earth. Just download this fantastic new layer just released by the good people at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. Read more about it here: http://slate.me/1gMPKpX 

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In a galaxy not so far far away...

less than 12 million light years away, to be exact, something very exciting has occurred. A supernova with the preliminary designation of PSN J09554214+6940260 has gone off in neighboring Ursa Major. Scientists discovered it two weeks prior to reaching its peak brightness, which means that in two weeks an amateur observer might be able to see it with nothing more than a pair of binoculars. What will you be doing for Supernova Sunday?

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Mother still knows best...

With Sen.se's Mother device, set to launch this spring, you get all of the mom-like reminders you may have been missing since moving out of the house in a cute, wirelessly-synced package. We know that nothing says failing at adulthood like running out of toilet paper, so having a little Mother in the house may not be a bad thing at all.

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Now for the latest in wearable bacteria.

A British designer and self-proclaimed bio-couturist runs a consultancy called Biocouture, where she makes fabrics out of living things. The first material she adapted was bacterial cellulose and it strongly resembles leather.

Find out the ideal temperature for washing bacterial cellulose, how to make hats out of fungi, and more at: http://biocouture.co.uk

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Could wireless routers have the capacity to kill? That was the question several Danish 9th graders sought to answer with a little experiment involving garden cress seeds and wireless routers. The result, though crude and in need of professional lab testing, is a little scary. The seeds placed next to the router were withered and mutated, whereas those in the router-free room grew healthily.