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Bladerunners get serious about hair

Scientists have had a breakthrough on preventing charged hair situations like this one.
(Credit: Candace Lombardi)
“Hair brained” scientists from the University of Bayreuth in Germany have found a way to observe hair follicles at the microscopic level while it moves and reacts to chemicals.
Hair follicles were mounted on the cantilever tip of an atomic force microscope, […]

This toothbrush ditches the bristles

(Credit: Fabio Dabori)
In the evolution of the toothbrush, will the standard bristle model end up being the Australopithecus afarensis of the tooth-cleaning species? With a new concept device that replaces bristles with sponges, Fabio Dabori seems to suggest that today’s brushes could one day go the way of …
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Scream loudly, but carry a large vase

(Credit: Japan Trend Shop)
Good thing the Shouting Vase wasn’t around back when news anchor Howard Beale urged viewers to open their windows and shout, “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.” That famous scene from the movie Network would have really …
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