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This Motoring Mimic Can Become Any Car

Need a Camaro? A Duesenberg? Maybe a Batmobile? WIRED transportation writer Jack Stewart checks out the Blackbird, the shape-shifting electric vehicle directors use for motoring movie magic.




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Review: We Filmed This Entire Video Using the iPhone 7

The iPhone 7 Plus is touted as *the* mobile low-light camera. It’s got dual lenses, an f/1.8 aperture, image stabilization, and an even brighter flash. But how much better is it? We tested it out by filming this entire video with iPhone 7.




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This Robot Smokes Cigarettes So Rats Don't Have To

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have built a robot that can smoke cigarettes just like a human to better understand lung diseases. You're welcome, smoking lab rats.




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This Radical Redesign Could Keep Gas Engines Pumping

Achates Power is reviving the century-old opposed piston layout to make gas-powered cars more efficient.




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This Simple Paper Centrifuge Could Revolutionize Global Health

A Stanford researcher has created a groundbreaking scientific device using paper and string. It's called a paperfuge and it may be the answer to testing blood samples in places that can’t power, afford, or transport a traditional centrifuge.




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5 Standouts From This Year's Detroit Auto Show

Motown is still the center of the American auto industry, and it's got plenty to show you.




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This Spinach Plant Can Actually Detect Explosives

Can plants really detect explosives? At MIT, a new technology is being developed that can make dangerous chemicals in the soil easier to detect.




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This Company Is Turning Barn Finds Into Modern Supercars

Jack Stewart visits ICON, a controversial car restoration company that gives classic, luxury cars a complete modern overhaul.




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This Robot Barista Makes a Dang Good Latte

Cafe X’s robotic baristas could be the future of java jolts. The company’s robot-staffed kiosks sling precision-made espresso drinks starting at $2.25 a cup, just don’t expect fancy latte art.




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If the Tin Man Actually Had a Heart, It'd Look Like This

A robotic heart points the way to a future where soft robots help us heal.




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This Drone is Designed to Save Lives Then Disappear

The Everfly APSARA drone is an origami-like disposable drone made to deliver essential supplies in a humanitarian or disaster situation.




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Star Wars Fans Wait for Days to See This Bonkers SXSW Poster Exhibit

Star Wars fans waited for days to get into the Mondo Gallery in Austin, for an exhibition of limited edition prints from a galaxy far, far away by artist Michael Mitchell.




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Flight Lab - This NASA Drone Flies Over Hurricanes For Better Weather Forecasts

NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data.




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This Is What $250 Billion Actually Looks Like

Apple recently announced that they have a $250 billion in the bank. This is what that amount of money actually looks like.




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This Plane is Trying to Fly to 90,000 Feet Without an Engine

The Perlan II, a specially designed glider meant to climb to higher than any plane has ever flown, is attempting to reach altitudes of 90,000 feet.




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Living in a Shoebox Apartment? This Hi-Tech Furniture Could Help

Apartments are getting smaller and smaller. To combat this ever shrinking urban dilemma, a company called ORI is building modular, movable and totally automatic furniture for people who live in cramped quarters.




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This Construction Digger Drives Itself

Built Robotics, a San Francisco startup, is developing an autonomous skid-steer loader that can be set loose to dig a trench, no operator needed.




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This Robot Snake Means No Harm, Really

The robotic snake has 16 windpipe-constricting actuators, but this serpent bot is more likely to save your life than suck it out of you.




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This New Satellite Will Help Track Extreme Weather in the West

NOAA's latest GOES satellite will help researchers study, track, and predict storms, fires, floods, and other weather systems.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - This Is Us Cast Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

This Is Us stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about This Is Us and themselves.




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Obsessed - How This Woman Rides 20,000 Miles a Year on Her Bike

Ultra-endurance bicycle racer Lael Wilcox puts more miles on her bike every year than most people do on their cars. Here's how she trains for and rides some of the toughest races on earth.




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Obsessed - How This Guy Folds and Flies World Record Paper Airplanes

John Collins, better known as "The Paper Airplane Guy," has devoted himself to designing, folding, and flying the world's finest paper airplanes.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - How to Master This Summer's Wildest Watercraft

Why ride on a normal personal watercraft when you could go extreme? Brent Rose splashes and crashes the Seabreacher and Jetovator, two of the wildest watercraft on the market.




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How This Woman Plans to Become the Fastest Person on a Bike

Denise Mueller-Korenek set the women's paced bicycle speed record in 2016, pedaling to 147 miles per hour. Now she's ready to attempt to break the overall record of 167 miles per hour and take the title of fastest cyclist ever.




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Coming this fall: W25 v2.0

Missed our W25 event in 2018? Stay tuned...we'll have more this fall.




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Obsessed - How This Guy Built a Roller Coaster In His Backyard

Some people have backyard swimming pools. Some have basketball courts out back. Will Pemble built a roller coaster just steps from his back door.




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Obsessed - How This Guy Became a World Yo-Yo Champion

In this episode of Obsessed, Gentry Stein shows off the wild tricks that helped him become a world yo-yo champion.




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Obsessed - How This Pinball Collector is Saving the Game

In this episode of Obsessed we meet Michael Schiess, a pinball enthusiast who collects and repairs old machines in an effort to preserve them for future generations.




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Obsessed - How This Guy Became a World Champion Boomerang Thrower

Logan Broadbent is one of the world's top boomerang throwers. To throw and catch with his level of precision requires a solid understanding of aeronautics, weather, physics, athletic endurance and the ability to build world class boomerangs from scratch.




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Inside the Science Behind This Incredible Water-Based Illusion

WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez visits with Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn about illusions showing water that appears to stand still or float upward, wheels that appear to move backwards, and more.




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Obsessed - How This Artist Makes Mirrors Out of Pompoms and Wooden Tiles

Daniel Rozin, Artist and Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU, makes mechanical "mirrors" out of uncommon objects that mimic the viewer's movements and form.




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Obsessed - How This Artist Makes Sculptures Out of Old Typewriter Parts

Artist Jeremy Mayer has dedicated himself to transforming mechanical typewriter parts, and only typewriter parts, into detailed sculptures of birds, insects and human figures.




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Obsessed - How This Woman Started Diving in DIY Subs

Marine biologist Shanee Stopnitzky is on a mission to spend as much time under the ocean's surface as possible. To achieve her goal, she bought two used and broken submarines, and is fixing them up, making them functional again, learning as she goes.




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How This Artist Collapses Dimensions

Artist Alexa Meade paints on people to make them look like paintings of people. She's developed a style that flattens 3 dimensional objects into what at first appears to be a 2D image. See more at https://alexameade.com




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Obsessed - How This Guy Made the World's Hottest Peppers

PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie is on a mission to create the world's hottest peppers. Ed is the evil genius who brought the world the Carolina Reaper, one of the hottest hot peppers in existence; but he's not stopping there.




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What Being Trauma Informed Can Tell Us in This Time of Crisis

While many of us try to cope with the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and process the trauma, anxiety, and global loss, recent research might help guide the way forward.




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Didn't anticipate India to shut down like this, says Colgate-Palmolive CEO

Over the past few weeks, chief executives of Unilever, Mondelez, Hershey's Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Kimberly Clark have said India’s Covid-19 lockdown protocols had led to severe supply chain disruptions and labour shortages, hurting business in the key market.





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Whole lot of 'revenge' games for Tom Brady in this Buccaneers schedule

Don't you want me, baby?...DJ Bean points out that Tom Brady's first season in Tampa Bay is loaded with games against teams who passed on the legendary former Patriots quarterback in free agency.




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WordPress Breadcrumbs: How to Use This Function?

Unfortunely, WordPress doesn’t have a default function to display a breadcrumb. We’ll see how to create this navigation technique, and display it on our posts, pages and categories archives. Breadcrumb…What’s that?!? Wikipedia says: Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail are a navigation technique used in user interfaces. Its purpose is to give users a way to keep …

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Where should this music be? / songs of Lola Williams

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Life Insurance Corporation of India’s New Endowment Plan: Check benefits, other details of this policy

LIC's New Endowment Plan is a participating non-linked plan which offers an attractive combination of protection and saving features.




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Mother's Day 2020: Simplest way to thank your mom on this day

Mother's Day 2020: Simplest way to thank your mom on this day




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'We’ll have to see what norms are after this lockdown': BCCI trea...

'We’ll have to see what norms are after this lockdown': BCCI trea...




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The Top 10 This Is Our City Stories: Editor's Pick

And a bit of what our team learned along the way.






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This top star has a message for you!

'In 30 years, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.'




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'There have been no great songs this year'

'Just a day before the Pulwama attack happened, one of my songs had released. It's called Baarishein, featuring Atif Aslam. However, it was pulled down the very next day. See, when it comes to standing with the nation, I will. Even when the makers decided to take that song down, I supported them. Atif and I are artists but we cannot be bigger than our nations.'