Popping Corn One Kernel at a Time

Design students Laurent Beirnaert, Pierre Bouvier, and Paul Tubiana created "Oncle Sam," a machine that pops popcorn one kernel at a time. It can even butter and salt each individual kernel! Not all that efficient, but as an art project it's fun to watch. The contraption is part of a French exhibit called "Low Tech Factory." See a video of it working at Laughing Squid. Link


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I think that they reached the optimum of practicality with the all purpose optical mouse. (2 regular buttons, one clickable scroll wheel.) This design cannot be improved upon.

That gyroscopic mouse for example is all nice and dandy, but I want to see you hold a mouse up in the air for 8 hours. At best it's basically a (bad) game controller and mouse combined. I'm not talking about game controllers.
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