List of If This Then That recipes: 
ifttt.com is like Yahoo’s Pipes, but easier to use. Here’s a list of 728 useful “recipes” sorted by popularity.
Shain Erin’s dolls for sale on etsy
Shain Erin’s dolls for sale on etsy: 
Shain Erin is an artist who makes adorable dolls that any child would love to snuggle with. You can buy them in Shain’s etsy store.
Hydraulic typewriter mixes cocktails out of the letters you type
Hydraulic typewriter mixes cocktails out of the letters you type:
Morskoiboy created an hydraulic typewriter that mixes cocktails — the typewriter keys inject different liquids into a big LCD-like display, which then decants them into a waiting beaker.
So, if you’re interested, let me explain this contraption and the mechanism that makes it work. At the top of the machine there is a slot into which a bottle with alcohol, water, or even milk can be screwed. The essence of the art here lies in the ability of the syrups or liqueurs to tint the neutral color of the liquid. In the picture below you can see the connector itself and the regulator (which is actually an IV Rate Flow Regulator I picked up in a drugstore), which opens or closes off the air flow into the bottle and thus acts as an on/off switch. Once it enters the machine, the liquid spreads across the fourteen tubules.
Now I can literally taste the flavor of my words!
(Thanks, Sergey!)
Neutrino jokes
One of many highlarious jokes making the rounds about those crazy neutrinos traveling faster than light. (Thanks, Ariel Waldman!)
Hunting Space Invaders
Brain scans reveal our mind movies?
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Brain scans reveal our mind movies?
UC Berkeley researchers used brain scans of the visual cortex and computational models to reconstruct what the individual is seeing. From UC Berkeley:
As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, the breakthrough paves the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees, such as dreams and memories, according to researchers.
“This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery,” said Professor Jack Gallant, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist and coauthor of the study published online today (Sept. 22) in the journal Current Biology. “We are opening a window into the movies in our minds.”
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind
BB pal Jim Leftwich points out that the reconstructed video looks strikingly similar to how images from a science fiction “dream recorder” were represented in Wim Wenders’ captivating 1991 film Until The End Of the World. Here’s a frame grab Jim made from his VHS tape of the movie.
3D printed nylon bicycle that’s “as strong as steel”
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3D printed nylon bicycle that’s “as strong as steel”
This 3D printed bicycle, exhibited at this week’s London Design Festival, is claimed to be as strong as steel. It was printed from layers of fused nylon, using a technique more commonly deployed in satellite manufacture.
Launched this year by a team of development engineers, the bike is made up of successive layers of fused nylon powder that are each just one-tenth of a millimeter thick. Designed by Andy Hawkins and Chris Turner at the Aerospace Innovation Centre in Bristol, UK, the bike is constructed from a manufacturing process known as additive layer manufacturing (ALM), which is also used in the manufacturing of satellites.
Nylon Bike Made Using Satellite Technology is as Strong as Steel!
(Thanks,Terry!)
Neutrinos
Nested knife-set
The Deglon Meeting Knife, designed by Mia Schmallenbach, is a set of sculptural, nested knives (priced, alas, as sculptures, at $600 for the set). The proportions of the four nested knives — paring knife, carving knife, chef’s knife and filleting knife — are “determined by the Fibonacci sequence with as its base the average width of a hand.”
Admire The Deglon Meeting Knife Set
Origo aims to be the EZ-Bake oven of 3D printing
[Note: currently vaporware. -egg]
Origo aims to be the EZ-Bake oven of 3D printing: 
Joris Peels sez, “The Origo aims to be an affordable, easy to use 3D printer for ten year olds. It will be more robust than current 3D printers and work straight out of the box. By reapplying existing technology in novel ways the Origo will let kids make whatever they want, whenever they want at home.”
There are other 3D printers. But none will be as easy to use as I will. None will be as reliable or work as hard for you. I’m not a kit or an industrial machine. I’m not complicated. I’m an appliance, like a toaster or a microwave. Only I’m purple and make your stuff.You don’t have to be ten to use me, but it helps. Sure adults are older and can do lots of different things such as drive a car and use a drill. But, adults aren’t really good at imagining things. They’re afraid. Afraid of failing, afraid of not making the perfect thing. They see the world as it is, not as it could be. They see what can’t be done, not what could become. Kids are not afraid. They’ll draw anything and everything. They’ll make whatever it is they feel like. They’ll imagine, dream and create. And that’s what I’ll help you do. You could share me with your brothers, sisters and parents and make together. You could teach them how to make the world as they want it to be. Most of all though, I’m a tool for you.
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