This Device Lets You Play With Microbes Using Your Smartphone

This is the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and Play With Microbes Using Your Smartphone. Tormenting single-celled organisms has never been so much fun. LudusScope was developed by Stanford engineer Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, and he envisioned it as a new way of interacting and learning about common microbes. It’s meant for use…

Video: The magical automatic breakfast machine

A 69-year-old retired airplane pilot named Peter Browne has created the most lovable mechanical contraption this side of Short Circuit. Built with pal Mervyn Huggett, who I have to imagine was birthed whole cloth for an abandoned J.K. Rowling novel, the machine prepares the three core parts of a morning meal: the protein (an egg),…