Editorial Discoveries
484 articles
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Teenage Engineering Made a Recorder With a Motorised Reel You Can Touch
TP-7 turns digital audio recording into a tactile object with a spinning central disc that can be scrubbed by hand. — via teenage.engineering
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This Bottle Purifies Water by Pushing One Cylinder Through Another
GRAYL’s GeoPress uses a press mechanism to force water through a purifier cartridge, making the process physically intuitive rather than pump- or hose-based. — via grayl.com
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A Full Camping Chair Can Weigh Less Than Some Water Bottles
Helinox’s Chair Zero uses thin aluminium poles and a fabric sling to create a supportive chair with an unusually low packed weight. — via helinox.com
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An Insulated Sleeping Pad Packs Down Tiny Despite Being Built for Winter
NeoAir XTherm NXT combines internal reflective layers with an inflatable structure to deliver high insulation without the bulk of foam. — via thermarest.com
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Drag a Pin on a Map and See Exactly Where the Sun Will Rise and Set
SunCalc visualises the sun’s path, sunrise, sunset and shadow direction for any place and date, making a complex celestial calculation instantly practical. — via suncalc.org
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This Compact Stove Locks the Pot and Burner Into One Fast-Boiling System
Jetboil’s integrated cooking cup, burner and heat-exchanger fins are designed around speed and packing efficiency rather than a loose stove-and-pot setup. — via jetboil.johnsonoutdoors.com
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This Free Map Quiz Can Teach You Countries, Flags, Capitals and Geography
Seterra uses fast interactive map quizzes to build geographic recall across countries, regions, cities and flags. — via geoguessr.com
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This Game Drops You Somewhere on Earth and Makes You Work Out Where You Are
GeoGuessr turns panoramic street imagery into a geography challenge, asking players to infer location from road markings, landscape, language and tiny visual clues. — via geoguessr.com
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This Camping Chair Hangs From Its Frame So It Can Swing and Recline
NEMO’s Stargaze suspends the seat from the support frame, letting the user rock and lean back while remaining off uneven ground. — via nemoequipment.com
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One Site Turns Global Problems Into Charts You Can Actually Explore
Our World in Data makes large public datasets on health, energy, population, poverty and other topics explorable through charts, maps and downloadable data. — via ourworldindata.org
