Brew in a bottle!

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Cold brewing is in fashion nowadays. They say when you hot brew your tea, you end up releasing more caffeine from the tea leaves. The trend of brewing your beverage without heat application is beginning to catch on, and the Cold Brewer cap ushers in that movement by being one of the niftiest and most portable cold brewers out there. Designed to fit onto any bottle, the Cold Brewer is a sleek little cap with your brewing compartment. Just put your leaves, powder, spices, concentrate in and pop it on a bottle of water and turn the bottle heads down. The brewer will work its magic to infuse your water with an absolute myriad of flavors! Plus you got to love those delicious colors!

Designer: Nova Design (Shanghai)

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Infant-astic

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Futuristic concept art doesn’t usually go hand in hand with reality. They intend to portray something shrouded in impossibility, but beautiful nevertheless. After all, what is design without aesthetics?

The Capsule is a baby incubator designed in a way that makes it easy to carry around and set up. The baby is placed in the enclosure, and is monitored by a device that keeps track of the baby’s health statistics. Also, the Capsule can work independent of a power source, keeping your little one safe during an outage.

Designer: Charandeep Singh Kapoor

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NASA Orion Crew Capsule Completes Parachute Test Flawlessly

In the early days of the space program, NASA used capsules atop powerful rockets to fling astronauts and gear into space. We replaced those early capsules with the space shuttle fleet. With the shuttles retired, U.S. astronauts are having to catch a ride with Russia to get to the ISS. That will all change when the Orion space capsule is ready to take astronauts into space.

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The Orion has completed a successful and important test on its path to taking Americans to the ISS and beyond. The USAF loaded its capsule into the back of a C-17 aircraft, took it to 35,000 feet, and kicked it out of the back of the plane.

The test was designed to put stress on the parachute system used to safely get astronauts back on the ground. The capsule was allowed to freefall for 10 seconds to put additional stress on the parachute and the test went off without a problem.

An unmanned space test for the capsule is set for December.

[via BBC]