Remember Bender, the bending unit robot from Futurama? Meet his predecessor: The DIWire Bender. The DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or...

How do you increase the ammunition capacity of a revolver? We've seen some inventive but impractical attempts to answer that question. This one of a kind Spanish revolver is at least portable. Each cycle brings 3 6...

by Anders Sandberg SANS/NADA, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [EDITOR'S NOTE: we apologize for the lack of clear formatting,in this web version, of the mathematical formulae.] Abstract We derive up...

José Balta's reign as the President of Peru ended with an assassin's bullet on July 26, 1872. So perhaps this was a fitting weapon for him to own during a dangerous age. The French gunmaker Lefaucheux, Casimer & Eugene...

(Video Link) The 80s band Van Halen famously (or infamously) had a rider in its contract which required promoters to provide the band a large number of M&Ms in the dressing room. But brown M&Ms were forbidden. If the...

Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets! This is what happens when you put a bunch of scientists together on the track. The petri dish track, that is: In a tongue-in-cheek contest of m...

How did Flickr user Northwest dad do it? Was it Photoshop? No! Scroll down to see his clever camera setup. | Link -via That's Nerdalicious!...

by Daniel M. Berry Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In software engineering, we are told that a software requirements specification should specify what the desir...

The following article is reprinted from The Annals of Improbable Research. by David L. Dickinson, Dept. of Economics, Appalachian State University, and Todd McElroy, Dept. of Psychology, Appalachian State University...

What do you get when you combine wind chimes and a bridge? Here's a kinetic sculpture by Mark Nixon called Chimecco, which was recently exhibited at the Sculpture by the Sea in Aar...