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Tired of the Same Old News? This Device Mutes Unwanted TV Content

by Max Eddy | 3:26 pm, August 16th

Critics have said that our society lives in a media echo chamber. That, more and more, people are tuning out what they don’t want to hear and listening only to things they like or agree with. The Enough Already, from Make’s Matt Richardson, challenges this notion since, how can there be echoes in blissful silence? Using open-source code and hardware, Ricahrdson crafted a device that automatically mutes the television whenever it detects pre-defined phrases

Once plugged into your cable box, the Enough Already sifts through the embedded closed-captioning data. Once it hits on names, or phrases, that you don’t care to hear, it mutes the television for 30 seconds. While muted, it continues to monitor the stream of words and will reset the 30 second counter each time it detects an offending phrase, ensuring that your delicate ears remain unmolested. If you’re curious, the code is available online.

As cool as this is, I have an alternative solution: Blow up your TV. Video of the Enough Already in action, and an enlightening explanation on how it works, after the break.

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Say Hello to My Little Heat-Seeking Nerf Machine Gun

by Robert Quigley | 2:43 pm, September 2nd

The winner of last month’s MAKE gadget design contest was this beast by Rick Prescott: A Nerf machine gun that automatically detects hapless warm-blooded people in the vicinity (sadly, ineffective against zombies), swivels, and rapidly fires darts at them.

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The Ocarina of Egg

by Susana Polo | 5:17 pm, February 5th

We already knew you could make an ocarina out of wood, clay, bone, gourd, or plastic, and that sometimes elf chicks or princesses will give them to you, but YouTuber heita3 has now shown us that you can make an ocarina out of an egg. (h/t Make )

Provided you have a couple different drill bits, a light touch, and probably a lot of patience.  Be prepared to hear every song from your Beginner’s Piano Workbook. 

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Dinosaurs on Your iPhone! The Museum of Natural History App is Here

by Robert Quigley | 10:22 am, February 5th

The American Museum of Natural History has just unleashed a free app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to learn about dinosaurs and enrich their museum experience even without the guidance of funnyman Ben Stiller.

“Dinosaurs: The American Museum of Natural History Collections,” features a photomosaic of more than 800 pictures of dinosaurs, with additional information on some of the museum’s most popular exhibits.

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Robotic Rubik’s Cube Solver in Action

by Robert Quigley | 8:29 am, February 3rd

As tough as Rubik’s Cubes might be to solve for you, it turns out that all you need to solve a 4×4 cube is some LEGO Mindstorms parts, a mass-market LEGO programmable robotics kit, and a Nokia smartphone from three years ago.

The execution is the tricky part:

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How to Make a Giant Octopus

by Robert Quigley | 2:04 pm, February 1st

Exactly what it sounds like: an instructional video on how to make a lifelike stop-motion giant octopus, courtesy of a resourceful Swedish animator who made it for a friend’s film.

The detailed instruction on puppet construction from Chavant clay sculpture to armature to paint are fascinating enough, but it’s worth sitting through the film to check out the Cthulhu-like giant tentacle attack in its final three minutes.

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Lego iPad

by Robert Quigley | 6:49 pm, January 31st

The Lego iPad: Because it needed to exist.

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