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inventions
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‘One Giant Pee For Mankind’ – Spacesuits That Recycle Astronauts’ Urine Are Now A Reality
15 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
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Another Classic ‘Only In South Africa’ Moment As Shopping Trolley Replaces Wheel [Video]
08 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A video doing the rounds on social media shows a motorist in a green Golf making a unique plan for one of their car’s missing back wheels.
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Five Of The Most Important Scientific Discoveries Made This Year
28 Nov 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
2019 has been a good year for scientists, who have made discoveries that have significantly expanded our understanding of Earth, the universe, and our place in it.
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Are You Still Using Spoons To Stir Things? Pfft, Get With The Programme [Video]
10 May 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A designer named Scott Amron has created a thing that he says helps to further eliminate our dependence on single-use plastics, like coffee stirrers.
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10 Odd Ideas That Made People Very, Very Rich
22 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Some entrepreneurs struck gold with their weird and wonderful ideas for products. Here are 10 of the oddest inventions.
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Bill Gates Reckons These Tech Innovations Are Going To Change The World
01 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates weighed in on the tech and scientific advances he believes will impact the world in 2019 and beyond.
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There Were Some Pretty Useless Gadgets At This Year’s Consumer Electronics Show [Videos]
23 Jan 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Forget the stuff that’s going to advance society, because here’s a list of the most useless inventions on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.
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‘Smell-O-Vision’ And Two Other Epic Film Industry Flops
09 Mar 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The entertainment game is always looking for ways to improve, but over the years some innovations haven’t really panned out as they would have hoped.
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The Ridiculous Story Of How That Singing Fish Made $100 Million In A Year
12 Jan 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re looking for a little inspiration to see you through Friday, how about the story of how a simple novelty gift came to hang in the Oval Office.
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Four Unusual ‘Shark Tank’ Inventions That Have Been Surprisingly Successful
03 Oct 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Ever watched ‘Shark Tank’ and wondered what happens to the products that are backed by the ‘sharks’? Well, here are a few of the most bizarre yet popular ones.
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Five Of Africa’s Most Innovative Inventions From The Past Year
17 Jul 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
While Africa may have a few hurdles to overcome, some locals are doing what they can to invent relevant and innovative solutions. Here are five we’re fond of.
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These Three Discoveries Actually Started Off As School Assignments
11 May 2017 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Every teacher will tell you about the slog and grind of reading school assignments, but now and again something huge comes out of a student’s hard work.
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Woman Invents Playground Toy That Sells Millions – Doesn’t Have Patent – Doesn’t Make A Cent
04 May 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
It’s not often an invention becomes a roaring success, but when it does, there’s one thing you really want to get on pronto. Yeah, the patent.
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The Stories Behind Some Of The Best Designed Inventions Of All Time
03 Apr 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Everything we make use of on a daily basis has some sort of story, but a few ‘simple’ products actually have pretty incredible tales to tell.
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Our Top 5 Favourite South African Inventions
06 Jul 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
South Africans are pretty on top of things when it comes to finding new ways and means to get the job done. Some of our inventions might surprise you.
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Mental: Amazon Launches Single-Item Buttons To Stick Around Your House
01 Apr 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Amazon wants to be the place where you buy everything, and they’re not going to stop until it is. This makes the choice that much easier.
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Ok, These Are TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions For 2014
25 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
TIME’s annual round-up of the best inventions, making the world a whole lot more fun and interesting for us all!
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TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions Of The Year Are…
06 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
TIME Tech announced their Best Inventions of 2012 last week. The list, consisting of 25 items, contains everything from body armor for women, a civilisation starter kit, a motion-activated screwdriver, and a home HIV test kit.
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New Cardboard Bike Could Revolutionise Transport In Rural Africa
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I don’t like cyclists very much, I’ll be the first to tell you. But even I have to marvel at the ingenuity of this new Israeli invention. Amateur cyclist and Israeli inventor, Izhar Gafni, has created a bicycle made of cardboard – which could be the massive game changer for rural people who need to get from A to B.
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Awesome Digitalised Pop-Up Biography Of Oft Overlooked Inventor, Nikola Tesla [VIDEO]
26 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Nikola Tesla was one of greatest inventors of our time, most notably giving us alternative current electricity, which we still use every day. Modern-day illusionist and magician Marco Tempest recently paid homage to him with an amazing collaboration of analogue and digital technology, creating a futuristic pop-up book biography. Click through for the fascinating video.
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Inventions We’re Still Waiting For
18 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Remember watching Back to the Future and Terminator or RoboCop and thinking that one day you will have a flying car or cyborg abilities? Well what happened to these inventions exactly? And seriously, where are our jetpacks?
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