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What it does is simple. A few years ago, Kamen was working on an electric generator for use in underdeveloped villages when he noticed that it produced about 1,000 watts of waste heat. Kamen decided to try to use that heat to make clean water. There are 6,000 deaths from contaminated water every day, according to the U.N., and safe water is one of the world's more urgent problems. Kamen's device uses that extra heat to distill water--boil it and condense it. Nothing new about that Kamen has invented lots of things, but he didn...
...toddler to do? Preschoolians shoes look like ordinary children's footwear except for one thing: they have see-through bottoms to help ensure proper fit. Like the rest of the sole, the viewing window is made of durable polyvinyl acetate (think kickballs and teething rings), and the parts are heat fused to prevent cracks or splits. Your child may still trip over his own feet now and then, and let's face it, a hammertoe is often hereditary. At least you'll know you did all you could. INVENTOR Jeff Silverman, Preschoolians AVAILABILITY Now, $25 to $60 a pair...
...midnight wire to the newly re-established Bow Street Dunkin’ Donuts, that glittering beacon of inexpensive (and occasionally stale) caffeinated products and baked goods, a late-night customer is immediately struck by the ample stock of untouched muffins and doughnuts, getting staler by the minute under the heat lamps...
...don’t know how funny a piece about our house purchase will be. Can you change our identities and location? You might have found some humor in the house today, with windows that don’t shut, broken panes, peeling wallpaper, no heat, etc., and driving rain outside...
...party, the body heat from hundreds of people grinding on—and off—the dance floor was combined with intermittent use of a fog machine, turning the frigid fall air outside into a humid summer night on the second floor of Europa...