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hillbilly hottub

Instant Hot Tub? Just Add Water and Quicklime

This is how you make a hot tub, hillbilly style. Three guys from the prairies of Illinois turned an old stock tank sitting in the open air into a jacuzzi, and heated it up using quicklime, that scary caustic stuff that burns your skin off if you're not too careful. A video of how they did it, using gas masks, tin baths and a lot of ingenuity, is after the jump. More »

9:40 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By AddyDugdale
10,000 views, 44 comments

pyramid car

Father and Sons Build Electric Car—a Popemobile for Pharaohs

Greg Zanis' Dream Car is a solar-powered pyramid on four wheels that he built at home with the help of his two sons. Deceptively fragile, this little one-seater weighs in at 8,000 pounds, but its 80 batteries powering four electric engines really make it shift. Find out how fast, and watch the video of it pootling along a wintry Illinois street, after the jump. More »

1:20 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By AddyDugdale
7,685 views, 40 comments

tongue kung fu

Wheelchairs Could Be Tongue-Controlled - Just Like My Favourite Button

Tongue-controlled wheelchairs could be in the offing by the end of the year, thanks to a US company. Think-A-Move is using a device made by a couple of engineers from Southern Illinois University, which consists of a simple earpiece that determines how a person is moving their tongue, thanks to a person's Eustachian tube, which connects the middle ear to the back of the mouth. More »

8:48 AM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By AddyDugdale
2,067 views, 23 comments

wireless

Paranoid Home Owners Waging War on City-wide Wi-Fi

If New York got city-wide Wi-Fi, I'd be the happiest cat in town, which is why I don't get the people behind the Healthy Home Alliance in Naperville, IL. They're actually trying to shut down the city's attempts at blanketing the town with Wi-Fi. According to the HHA, "Wi-Fi transmitters function at 2.45 GHz, which is like being surrounded by a microwave oven without walls or doors." If that's the case, microwave me all you want. This is just as ridiculous as that Brit author who claimed she was prodded by her routers. – Louis Ramirez More »

6:09 PM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Louis Ramirez
2,129 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Let's hope fox picks this up and reports on it. Hillarity ensues more »