Intellectual Ventures Lab

To invent, you need a good imagination & a pile of junk. – Thomas Edison
  • Home
  • About the Lab
  • Malaria
  • Energy
  • Climate Science
  • Team
  • Contact

Archive

Posts Tagged ‘Quarter Shrinker’

Quarter Shrinker

June 11th, 2009 3ric Johanson 65 comments

The Quarter Shrinker was constructed by Rob Flickenger at Hackerbot Labs.

Quarter Shrinking has three steps.
1. make a coil of wire,
2. stick quarter inside it,
3. discharge an enormous amount of electric current through the coil.

But what does that actually do, other than making a big boom? … (click for more) Read more…

Tags: 3ric Johanson, Chris Love, Hackerbot Labs, Nathan Pegram, Public Candidate, Quarter Shrinker, Rob Flickenger, Ryan Smith, Stuart Bowlin
RSS

Tags

3ric Johanson Barcin Acar Ben Wilson Bill Gates Chris Love Climate Science Computational Modeling Daniel MacDonald Dave Nash David Burton Emma Mullen Epidemiological Modeling Fire Geoengineering Hackerbot Labs Hemozoin Detection High-Speed Video Hurricane Suppression Insectary Inventors Jane Dickerson Karima Nigmatulina Laser Make Magazine Malaria Microscopy Mosquitoes Mosquito Videography Nathan Myhrvold Nathan Pegram Nuclear Pablos Holman Phantom Philip Eckhoff Photonic Fence Public Candidate Quarter Shrinker Rob Flickenger Ryan Smith Salter Sink StratoShield Stuart Bowlin TED TerraPower Tom Nugent
Top
Copyright © 2009-2010 Intellectual Ventures Lab