Carving pumpkins for Halloween is so 20th Century. Here in the age of Google Street View, nanotechnology, botnets and 3D film, we use LEDs. The guys at Hack A Day have a great project for the do-it-yourselfer not content with homemade costumes: a marquee made from matrix of 70 light emitting diodes, or LEDs. It's a little too involved for me, but I'll bet plenty of you could tackle this baby and perhaps even come up with a new twist.
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There's a new way to eat: it's called breathing. A professor of biomedical engineering from Harvard has invented a device that lets you taste chocolate without the calories.
The product, le Whif, was invented by David Edwards, who previously invented an inhaler that delivers insulin to the body in fine particles. The chocolate inhaler works on the same premise, however, the particles are made bigger so that they do not pass into the airway or stomach, but settle onto the tongue and tastebuds. The result is the taste of chocolate for the cost of about 1 calorie.
Le Whif, which comes in mint, raspberry and dark chocolate flavors, was announced in April 2009 but just went into commercial production.
The developers believe that "whiffing" will catch on with other foods that are normally high in calories or with flavors that may be enticing but inedible, such as lobster. For more deets, see the video.
For all of those folks out there who will risk life and limb to deep-fry a turkey for Thanksgiving Day, take note: if you can just hang on for a couple more years, you could get that deep-fried flavor without the oil and fat or the charred wreckage of a former life.
Researchers at Purdue University have invented a radiant fryer that uses halogen bulbs to cook.
Here's a video of the Radiant Fryer. It's from a local news source and there's a quick ad up front.
Here's a video of what could happen when you deep-fry a turkey. Say no to the fryer, people. Just. Say. No.
