William Lyttle, The “Mole Man” Who Dug Tunnels Around His London Home

My chemistry teacher called today Mole Day, and while this story doesn't have much chemistry in it, it does have a mole: a Londoner called William Lyttle who dug huge tunnels around his place.

By |2024-12-07T20:31:25-05:00October 23, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

A Statue Of Liberty Stamp That Didn’t Actually Feature The Statue Of Liberty

Today in 2010, the US Postal Service released a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty - well, sort of. And that “sort of” ended up being a big and expensive deal.

By |2024-12-01T12:19:00-05:00December 1, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

Cry A Little And You’ll Power The Smart Contact Lenses Of The Future

We have smart glasses already, and soon there could be smart contact lenses powered by a method that might make your eyes water.

By |2024-12-08T16:59:07-05:00September 6, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

The Smart Pacifier Is A High-Tech Wearable That Helps Keep Newborns Healthy

Washington State University has developed a high-tech wearable (I guess you call it a wearable?) to make it easier to take care of a very important test for some babies: a smart pacifier.

By |2024-12-08T16:42:34-05:00May 31, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Butler In A Box Was A Smart Speaker Before There Were Smart Speakers

You know about the Echo and the Google Home, but do you know about the Butler In A Box? It was a voice-controlled smart home device in the 1980s, and could do many of the same things our smart speakers do today.

By |2024-12-07T18:58:53-05:00March 2, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The Little Robot That Cleans Up After Your Dog

A startup called Beetl is developing an autonomous device that’s ready to clean up after our dogs on demand, thanks to a large scooper on its underside. If they’re willing to do this job, maybe robots aren’t trying to conquer us after all.

By |2024-12-08T07:56:49-05:00October 24, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The Trash Can Isn’t Going To Take Itself Out. Oh, Actually Now It Is

The Smart Can is a motorized, automated trash bin that will drive itself to the curb every week. Which means it's already more motivated about garbage day than I've ever been.

By |2024-12-02T08:05:04-05:00October 3, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |
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