Dean Kamen, the inventor most known for his self-balancing human transporter, the Segway, has just unveiled a new invention that he has reportedly been working on for five years. Named The Slingshot, it is a vapor compression distiller, and while the idea is not new, doing it in such an efficient (using 2% of the power of convention distillers) and mass produced way certainly is. Wired Science did an excellent job of researching and compiling a list of what is currently known about ... Read More

If you haven't heard of TED before, let this post intrigue you. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) was founded in 1984 with the goal of bringing together people from all three of those fields to share their ideas with each other. 24 years later, TED has broadened its scope to include even more people in the discussion, becoming one of the world's premiere conferences. In the clip I'm featuring today, New York Times columnist David Pogue gives a great talk on what ... Read More