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Three years ago, a Belgian tech firm created a wearable device that can tell you whether you snore. Honestly, what a ...

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This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

It’s a remarkably simple design that almost evokes chindogu (the Japanese art of useless inventions) if not for the fact that the robot actually serves a useful purpose. The components for 3D ...

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When Marina Fujiwara started showing off the elaborate “useless” inventions she made for fun, she did not expect to become a breakout internet star and amass a loyal following. “I just make ...

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An equally New York kind of crowd had come to see it: the tennis stars Aryna Sabalenka, fresh off her triumph at the U.S.

Honestly, what a pointless invention. You don’t need some swanky device to tell you that. All you need is a wife. Because if you snore, she’ll most certainly let you know about it. I can ...