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Origins of Fortune Cookie was America?

Here’s a funny video proving that Fortune Cookies are in fact, from America itself.  It’s funny but maybe Fortune Cookies were invented by the Chinese Americans to lure more customers.  Go to China, they don’t even know what a Fortune Cookie is.

But I can understand that, they have Chinese food in Korea that they don’t have in America, it’s called Korean-Chinese food.  Fortune Cookies are definitely American-Chinese food, speaking of which, there’s all these non-authentic Chinese food chains popping up. (and yes, they taste horrible to an authentic Asian mouth.)

Clearly not. They are arguably more American (by way of Japan), judging by the way that people in China react to fortune cookies — with a mixture of confusion and amusement. As part of research for my book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, I went around China handing out fortune cookies to random people (my bellhop, people on the street, vendors) and recorded their reactions.

Often times, they would put the cookies in their mouth, and then be surprised when they found a piece of paper either in their mouth or in a cookie.

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Origins of Fortune Cookie was America?

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How does it work? Find out after the jump.

The principal behind the system are quite simple really. The fabric hangs so that it is in contact with the water which then soaks into the fabric and trickles down the both sides of the corrugated iron. You can’t see the water in the picture; it encircles the top of the corrugated iron and is covered. Vents on either side of the cooler allow for continuous airflow, thus achieving a meaningful level of cooling.

If one had access to some solar panels and a low-power exhaust fan, they could give this system a little extra kick. [Afrigadget via Make]

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Check out this compeltely useless 2D pen that lets you spend a lot of time just making the thing.  Of course, if you never succeed in making the 2D pen into a 3D one, you might have to take more time to re-assemble it until you get it right.

Our verdict?

Just go buy a regular pen but this DIY 2D pen is a cool concept.  For traveling, you might be able to stick a piece of this 2-D pen for slimmer travel.

Innovative and unique, the Falter 2D pen makes you work for your ink. The “assembly kit” comes with a flat piece of iron that you fold into a 3-dimensional pen holder. The assembly kit includes a key to help you bend the metal, a ruler and instructions. Handmade in Italy.

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DIY 2D Pen lets you spend time just building the damn thing!

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EPSON AMERICA INTRODUCES “ARTISAN” – NEW FLAGSHIP LINE OF PREMIUM INK JET ALL-IN-ONES THAT COMBINE POWER AND PERFORMANCE WITH SLEEK AND CHIC STYLING
The Artisan 800 and Artisan 700 are Advanced Yet Easy to Use All-in-Ones That Enable Users to Express Their Creativity in Virtually all of Their Printing Tasks

Epson America Inc. today introduced the Artisan 800 and Artisan 700, two new all-in-ones that are likely to become the envy of the industry based on their superb performance, highly sought-after features and stylish piano black finish. The Artisan series is perfect for the modern household where many users can share a single product and fits well in a living room or home office environment.
“The Artisan series basically gives users everything but the kitchen sink in terms of features
and performance,” said Steve Semos, product manager, consumer ink jets, Epson America Inc.
“More importantly, these benefits enable users to express their creative side in ways never before
imagined. At Epson we’ve built our reputation on giving our customers the industry’s best image
quality, and this flagship line is a key milestone in that tradition.”Beyond its creative applications, the premium Artisan 800 features Wi-Fi, Fax, an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), and Ultra Hi-Definition photos. Its elegant 7.8” smart touch panel and 3.5” LCD lights up only the buttons necessary that brings essential controls to users’ fingertips for easy selecting, copying, enlarging, rotating, cropping, and printing photos all without a computer. The Artisan 800 also has the exclusive ability to turn photos or drawings into
personalized coloring book pages and make personal notepaper with a photo as a background.

Epson provides additional value to Artisan customers with its new Epson Preferred
SM program, which includes a two-year limited warranty, toll-free telephone support, access to the
exclusive MyEpson.com Web site that features a series of online tutorial videos, and more Registered Artisan owners also receive, free lifetime phone support with no additional charges, even
beyond the warranty. Both the Artisan 800 and 700 feature six-color Ultra Hi-Definition Claria ink to create
vivid, true-to-life photos with smudge, scratch and water resistance, as well as fade resistance up to
four times longer than photo lab prints

Working in tandem with Claria ink, the “smart nozzles” in Epson’s exclusive MicroPiezo print head with DX5 technology deliver up to five ink droplet sizes, as small as 1.5 picoliters, producing smooth gradations, accurate skin tones and sharp, grain-free prints.
Both models feature Epson’s auto photo correction technology. This intuitive feature allows
users to preview corrections on the built-in LCD to ensure the very best prints, rescuing photos that
they might have otherwise passed over or discarded. Users can also remove red eye from their
photos automatically.
Other useful features on the Artisan 800 and 700 include turning plain paper into college-
ruled, wide-ruled and graph school paper, and creating photo layouts with various size photos on a
single sheet of paper. Users can even print and copy images directly onto ink jet printable CDs and
DVDs.
Both Artisan models complete printing tasks faster than competitive printers in their class,
producing prints and copies in black and color in up to 38 pages per minute (ppm), 4” x 6” photos in
as fast as 10 seconds,and an 8” x 10” in as fast as 50 seconds

The Artisan 800 adds full-featured, high-speed fax with a 30-page Automatic Document Feeder for copying, scanning and faxing stacks of documents effortlessly. Standing a mere 5.9” tall in a sleek, compact design with an easy-to-view tilt 2.5” LCD, the Artisan 700 offers outstanding features and functionality inherent in the series for everyday printing, copying and scanning, making it the ideal solution for a range of personal and creative needs that don’t require faxing. Additional features and performance in the Artisan series include:
• Full-Featured Scanning and Copying: The Artisan 800 features 4800 dpi resolution (48-bit
color) and the Artisan 700 features 2400 dpi resolution (48-bit color), for high quality scanning
of images and documents with brilliant clarity and accuracy. Both all-in-ones also offer
standalone, one-touch color and black and white copying with a wide range of easy-to-use

Epson Announces New Artisan Series options such as the ability to scan to a computer, memory card or USB flash drive, easy photo reprints and enlargements up to 400 percent, and a convenient fit-to-page printing feature. They even offer background removal for crisp, clean copies of text documents. Both models include
OCR software for converting documents into text users can edit.

• Standalone Photo Capabilities: Both Artisan models have card slots that are compatible with
all popular memory card types for printing photos without a computer or transferring files to or
from a computer. Plus, users can print directly from a digital camera or mobile phone with the PictBridge connection. Additional photo printing options include print-by-date, custom picture
packages, photo index sheets, and passport and photo IDs.
• Restore Faded Photos: Both Artisan all-in-ones can easily restore color to old, faded photos
with or without using a computer.
• Creativity Made Simple: Included software allows users to create and print personalized
CDs/DVDs, greeting cards, elegant invitations, beautiful photo calendars, photo books, and
more.
• Shared Use at Home: Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking are built in for sharing with all users in
the home. An optional Bluetooth photo print adapter is also available for printing from cell
phones and other mobile devices.
• Flexible Paper Handling: Both models print borderless photos in popular sizes, including
4” x 6”, 5” x 7”, 8” x 10”, and letter. They also feature a paper cassette with two paper trays
that eliminate the need to switch between plain and photo paper. In addition, two-sided printing
is built-in and can be automated with an optional duplexer
• Smart Ink System: The Artisan series feature convenient individual ink cartridges that can be
changed in as little as five seconds and replace only the color needed. In addition, innovative
technology conveniently combines color inks to produce black when black ink is low to extend
printing. Cartridges are available in two sizes to match users’ printing needs.

Artisan Series Pricing and Availability
With an estimated street price of $299.99 (Artisan 800) and $199.99 (Artisan 700), these
products offer an array of features, benefits and services that consumers have never before
experienced.

After a long hard day at work, there is nothing quite like taking a relaxing bath back home. Our friends at Gearlog has taken their turn inside the Kohler Fountainhead VibrAcoustic Bath, so what's their conclusion about this wonder bath?

How was the experience overall? Way better than taking a bath in my apartment, for starters; my knees hit my chin, in that tub. And I liked it much more than a jacuzzi, which is usually too hot and too noisy for me. The music was soothing, and the vibrating water was really pleasant. I came in suffering from serious jet-lag, and left feeling much refreshed. If I had an extra (approximately, not including installation) $9,000 to spend and a much bigger bathroom, I'd go for one. And if you do... invite me over? I'll bring the wine!

Sounds like a thumbs up from every perspective except for the price!

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A PhD student in Australia has found a cheap way to make solar cells with household parts.  If this process works as well as thought-of, we might have solar cells popping up everywhere with DIYers who make their own solar cells.

An Australian PhD student has found a cheap way to make solar cells with nail polish, a pizza oven and an ink jet printer. 23-year-old Nicole Kuepper’s invention, named iJET, doesn’t require the pricey clean rooms and high-temperature ovens of traditional solar panel manufacturing plants, thus dramatically lowering the cost of solar and paving the road for introducing the technology to third-world countries.

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Australian Student Invents Cheap way to make Solar Cells!

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Kuepper was awarded two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, the country's top science award, for iJET. Unfortunately, it seems like the only page that would explain how iJET works is down right now, but Kuepper said it would probably take five years to commercialize the technology and it'll help people in less developed nations to “read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines” without all those nasty CO2 emissions. [The Australian via Treehugger]