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Carbonated Popping Sugar Makes All Your Sweets Snap, Crackle and Pop

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There was a time when if you wanted your food to make noise, you had to buy Rice Krispies or Pop Rocks. But now all your food can make those crackling sounds thanks to Molecule-R’s Popping Sugar.

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This stuff is basically the same carbon-dioxide infused sweet stuff found in the classic 1970s candy, but without the flavorings. This lets you add the same mouth-happy sounds and sensations to anything you can put sugar on. Try it on tangy fruits like berries, lemons or limes, or spinkled on the top of your morning oatmeal.

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Molecule-R’s Popping Sugar is available over on Amazon in a variety of different sizes, with prices ranging from about $9 to $30(USD).

[via The Green Head]

Sugar smartphone packs 5.16 carats in Swarovski gems, worthy specs (video)

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Sugar phone hands-on

Many ostensibly female-oriented phones tend to be compromised, with flashiness on the outside sadly unmatched by power on the inside. Not so Sugar's inaugural, namesake smartphone: while the Android 4.2-based device is lined with 5.16 carats' worth of Swarovski Pure Brilliance gems, the underlying hardware is worth attention all on its own. The 5-inch, 1080p Sharp LCD is backed up by a quad-core MediaTek chip, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP rear camera, a 1.3MP front shooter and either 16GB or 32GB of storage. Sugar plans to launch the phone in China and Europe, although you'll have to wait until August for full details. In the meantime, you can catch the full Engadget Chinese hands-on at the link below, and our colleagues' English hands-on video is available after the break.

Stone Ip contributed to this report.

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Via: Engadget Chinese (translated)

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Swarovski to launch crystal-studded devices under Sugar brand in July?

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Ah, what better way to start off the week than by deciphering a cryptic message. Earlier today we received the above image from a mysterious company called Sugar, and that's all there really is: some crystals in a candy wrapper, the tag line "The sweetest thing that you've never tasted before" (the Chinese counterpart implies "irresistible sweetness"), plus the words "July. Austria. Wattens. Unlock." along the bottom.

As it turns out, Wattens is where the famed Swarovski is based, so we're going to assume this has something to do with the Austrian crystal maker. As for the "unlock" part, perhaps Swarovski is going to launch its very own bejeweled smartphones or even tablets under the Sugar brand next month? Whatever they are, hopefully they won't be as tacky as what we've seen in the past. The sweetness would be a bonus, too.

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3D Printed Sugar Sculptures Look Too Good to Eat

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If you’re a regular follower of Technabob, you know I’m a big fan of 3D printing tech. As prices come down, and speed and accuracy come up, 3D printers will become ubiquitous. While most 3D printing is done by melting plastic, did you know that you sugar can be used to make 3D prints too?

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Kyle and Liz von Hasseln of The Sugar Lab have developed a method for printing complex geometric forms using sugar. They intend on using their technology to create sugar sculptures for topping cakes, but many of their current examples stand on their own as works of art.

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The duo previously developed a 3D printing method which used the light produced by an off-the-shelf printer, and moved by a robotic arm, to create large sculptures out of resin.

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It’s unclear what method is used to print their sugar sculptures, though it involves alternating sugar layers with water and alcohol to harden the sculptures as they’re printed.

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If you’re interested in incorporating 3D printed sugar sculptures into your event, you can contact them over on their website for more information.

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[via Co.Design via Neatorama]

Caffeinated Baking Sugar Jacks Up Your Food a Notch

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A whole host of food has been treated with the caffeinated effect, from popcorn and bacon to candy and gum. The newest one is baking sugar, which allows you to literally jack up the foodstuff that leaves your oven.

Caffeinated Granulated Sugar

From pancakes and cookies to cakes and muffins, amping up any dessert is possible. If you need an extra kick, then pair these baked goods with coffee and you’re guaranteed to stay awake all through the night (and even into the morning.)

Each teaspoon of Jacked Up Sugar contains 137 mg of caffeine. For your reference, a 16 oz. coffee from Dunkin Donuts has between 143-206 mg of caffeine, so I don’t think you’ll need to much of this stuff to perk up your day.

A 40 oz. bag of Jacked Up Sugar is priced at $15(USD).

[via Oh Gizmo!]

Virginia Tech learns how to get hydrogen from any plant, might lower fuel cell costs

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Virginia Tech can extract hydrogen from any plant, may lower fuel cell vehicle costs

Hydrogen fuel cell cars have any number of hurdles to overcome, whether it's widespread adoption or the basic matter of locating a place to fill up. If a Virginia Tech discovery pans out, getting the fuel itself won't be one of those challenges. The new combination of a polyphosphate with a special blend of enzymes lets researchers extract meaningful quantities of hydrogen from any biological element that includes xylose -- in other words, the sugar that's present in every plant to at least some degree. The process is potentially more eco-friendly than most, as well. While you'd expect it to be renewable given the main ingredients, it also reduces the need for metals and cuts back sharply on the volume of necessary greenhouse gases. Most importantly, the findings could reach the commercial world as soon as three years from now. If they do, they could lower the price of hydrogen fuel by making it more accessible, all the while avoiding much of the guilt trip that comes with using polluting technology to generate clean energy.

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Via: The Verge

Source: Virginia Tech, Wiley

Edible Sugar Glasses: Drink up, Then Eat up

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Candy glass isn’t something new, but these ones made out of sugar are supposed to complement the drinks that you are consuming, and are certainly more artful than the ones I’ve seen before.

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These edible sugar glasses were created by Mexican designer Fernando Laposse. They were roto-molded, and inspired by Murano glass. Just like candy glass props, you can break away part of it while you drink. When you swirl your drink around the glass, sugar starts to infuse into it, which is good for certain cocktails and mixes. They’re definitely something I could see being used in bars and clubs.

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The design was refined from an initial lollipop model to a final model that was completely made up of sugar. They are part of The Food Project: The Taste of Shape exhibition at Italy’s MaRT, which runs through June 2, 2013.

[via designboom]

Fedora 18 Spherical Cow brings Linux fans a taste of Cinnamon, new installer

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Fedora 18 Spherical Cow brings Linux fans a taste of Cinnamon, new installer

Fedora's Linux distribution may be competing with Ubuntu for the title of silliest update name, but that doesn't diminish the impact of what are often significant revisions. See the just-launched Fedora 18 as an example: while it's called Spherical Cow, it introduces both a simpler installer to replace an aging predecessor as well as the option of using the Gnome 3-based Cinnamon desktop we recently saw in Linux Mint 13. There's also FedFS, a file system that provides unity between multiple file servers, and newer versions of both Sugar and XFCE for those who prefer different interfaces. If these and many under-the-hood updates can overcome the giggling over rounded bovines, Fedora 18's download and release notes are ready at the source links.

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OLPC delivers big OS update with text-to-speech, DisplayLink and WebKit

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OLPC delivers big OS update with texttospeech, DisplayLink and WebKit

While most of its energy is focused on the XO-4 Touch, the One Laptop Per Child project is swinging into full gear for software, too. The project team has just posted an OS 12.1.0 update that sweetens the Sugar for at least present-day XO units. As of this latest revamp, text-to-speech is woven into the interface and vocalizes any selectable text -- a big help for students that are more comfortable speaking their language than reading it. USB video output has been given its own lift through support for more ubiquitous DisplayLink adapters. If you're looking for the majority of changes, however, they're under-the-hood tweaks to bring the OLPC architecture up to snuff. Upgrades to GTK3+ and GNOME 3.4 help, but we're primarily noticing a shift from Mozilla's web engine to WebKit for browsing: although the OLPC crew may have been forced to swap code because of Mozilla's policies on third-party apps, it's promising a much faster and more Sugar-tinged web experience as part of the switch. While they're not the same as getting an XO-3 tablet, the upgrades found at the source link are big enough that classrooms (and the occasional individual) will be glad they held on to that early XO model.

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