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Toyota’s utilitarian Camatte concept car for kids

Toyota’s utilitarian Camatte concept car for kids

Our first reaction to seeing the Toyota Camatte (which literally translates to  “Take care of me”) concept for kids was: wait, a car for kids (the closest we ever came to the idea was hitching a ride on the neighbor’s Power Wheels way back when)?…

The “Let’s Pizza” vending machine cooks 10.5 inch pies in 2.5 minutes and gives us another excuse to be fat

The “Let’s Pizza” vending machine cooks 10.5 inch pies in 2.5 minutes and gives us another excuse to be fat

Someone out there is always plotting new ways for us to get fat (consider the Darth Vader Burger for one). The latest: The Let’s Pizza vending machine that has an infrared oven, invented by Claudio Torghehi and distributed by the Amsterdam-based company A1 Concepts. The…

The 121-megapixel Elektro-L Earth Image is unlike any other

The 121-megapixel Elektro-L Earth Image is unlike any other

With all the crazy technology out there, it’s easy to capture the lovely images space and our own Earth have to offer (black holes, not so much; you might need a telescope with a mirror the size of Earth to see a real black hole…

How Felix Baumgartner withstood a 120,000 foot free fall from space

How Felix Baumgartner withstood a 120,000 foot free fall from space

A lot of us put skydiving at the top of our bucket lists as something we’d like to accomplish before we die. And for some daring enough, they want to set the bar a little higher, jumping from more extreme heights. Consider the previously held…