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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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IoTIZER is a prototype of a mechanical hijacking device (MHD), designed to replace human manipulation of existing products. Or, that was the idea, anyway. As one user commented, "I think it is easy, because I can do it while looking at the product. Well, I can just put it there and check.".

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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Improving the capacity and efficiency of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) is an enduring challenge of green energy production and artificial photosynthesis. As the material is pulled apart, its molecular lattice changes into different forms; the end product, as it turns out, is catalytically active like the edge structure.

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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In the traditional process, which still accounts for more than half of copper production, smelters roast a mixture of copper sulfide ore and oxygen. The idea for direct sulfide electrolysis dates to as early as 1906. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, focused on liquid iron production at 1,600 ?C, —Antoine Allanore.

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Report: Future BMW I3 Will Be Less Weird Than Original

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But the model fell short in terms of range and luxury, especially in relation to MSRP, resulting in a de facto city car for those who liked the idea of owning a BMW-badged EV. Over its nine-year production run, the little EV amassed roughly 250,000 sales globally and only about 45,000 of those landed in the United States.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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The new family of anode materials, which the researchers dubbed the Interdigitated Eutectic Alloy (IdEA) anode, also saves time and materials by producing an anode using only two simple steps instead of the multiple steps traditionally required to mass-produce lithium-ion battery anodes. —Karl Kreder.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Car Wash Soap?

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On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have purchased with our own meager income. Actually, it’s a decent idea to kick this article off with a note about car washing techniques.

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TikTok creator apologizes to Tesla, admits that “defective” Model S in viral video was not his

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I love your product, sir, I do. I love your product. I had no idea, and I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. I had no idea that I was not supposed to get into that vehicle because it was not locked at all. “This video is for Elon Musk.

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