The day that a lot of singles dread has now come and gone. While more and more unattached people choose to go out and spend the night with friends when February 14th rolls around, there are still those who stay home and sulk over their singlehood.
Then there are those who choose to have a little fun with the situation, like Instructables user Emily Grace King. After finding a bunch of CPR dummy mouths in a dumpster by her apartment building, Emily was inspired to create the Make-out Pillow.
Staying true to its name, it’s a pillow that lonely people can make out with (ew) if they feel the need to, well, make out. While it looks pretty simple, making the Make-out Pillow requires a bit of work.
You’ll need a sewing machine (yeah, you gotta work for that kiss!), some scissors, thread, embroidery floss, glue, felt or fabric, pullow stuffing, some cardboard, and of course, the CPR dummy mouth.
Want to make one of your very own? Check out Emily’s Instructables page to see how she did it.
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There’s nothing worse than being so excited to eat your food or sip your coffee that you burn the inside of your mouth. Up until now, the best relief came from a little milk, but that doesn’t last long, and does nothing to help heal the burn either. Now, scientists have come up with a patch you can place directly on the burnt area of your mouth to help cool it off.
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The dissolving oral strip can also help protect the burn so it heals faster. While at the University of Texas Austin, researcher Jason McConville helped develop the non-toxic strip, which looks similar to those breath strips you can buy today. But instead of breath fresheners, the strip contains a local anesthetic (benzocaine) along with a “therapeutic polymer” to aid the healing process. Unlike breath strips, the burn strip will actually adhere to the injured area, and gradually dissolve over time.
McConville, who is now at the University of New Mexico, plans on seeing if there’s a way to develop a strip that could last 2 or 3 days for really severe burns – like that time I was so excited for my pizza that I scorched the roof of my mouth and it stung for days. You know the feeling.
The current prototype strips are mango flavored, but the next step in the process of bringing the strips to market will be human experiments and potentially creating more flavors. Hopefully, we’ll begin to see the strips in mass-production in the near future if all goes well.
[via DailyMail]
Now that Curiosity has survived its thrill-a-minute landing and passed an upgrade and physical with (nearly) flying colors, the rover is off to earn its $2 billion keep. The buggy got off to a good start, driving 52 feet towards its first science site "beautifully, just as our rover planners designed it," according to NASA. The destination, Glenelg, is 1,500 feet away from the now-familiar Bradbury Landing where it first set down, which is pretty far for a rover that treks along at about a tenth of a mile per hour. On top of that, its minders have some stops in mind to test instruments -- meaning it'll arrive there in about two weeks. Once at Glenelg, Curiousity will scope the unusual geology of the region, though its principal destination for science is Mount Sharp, a relatively vast six miles away. Don't worry about it running out of gas, though -- it's nuclear power supply will last a full Martian year, or 687 earth days.
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NASA | Email this | Comments The Mouth Factory project implements remind of the horror dentistry tools of yesteryears. However, looking deeper into the concept you realize that these series of functional machines specifically designed to be operated by the mouth of the user, can be developed or used as research for tools that people with limited mobility can use. However the designer explains his project as thus, “project explores the capabilities and versatility of the mouth and correlating facial expressions, re-contextualized within the realm of production.”
The project includes Chewing drill, teeth lathe, tongue extruder, mouth breath rotational molding and vacuum form machines. By focusing on the mouth, the production devices acquire a quality that amplifies and render visible the reciprocal relationship and effects between our body and our tools.
Designer: Cheng Guo
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It's time to give your pockets a rest. Take a cue from Parsons student Aisen Chacin and stick your MP3 player where it belongs: in your mouth. The catchily-named Play-a-Grill combines bone-conducting music playback with a classic bit of bling-based technology. This "attempt to provide an unusual display and interface in comparison to typical audio/visual stimulation and digit based control panel" utilizes an iPod Shuffle knockoff, which sits in the roof of the wearer's mouth for some good, old fashioned tongue control over music playback. At the moment, the player looks to be more art project than consumer product (complete with a Nelly-quoting paper), but perhaps this is the iPod killer everyone's been searching for all along.
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