{"id":238,"date":"2006-08-25T01:36:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T06:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=238"},"modified":"2006-08-25T01:36:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T06:36:22","slug":"giant-swiss-army-knife-magic-hydrophobic-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/08\/25\/giant-swiss-army-knife-magic-hydrophobic-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Swiss Army Knife &amp; Magic Hydrophobic Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/outdoor\/photogallery\/article\/0,20036,1145810_1304110,00.html\">Giant Swiss Army Knife offers 85 tools<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p>For only $1200, how can you live without it?  Ok, so it&#8217;s missing a USB drive but it&#8217;s got a laser pointer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4846085155561290961&amp;hl=en\">Magic Sand &#8211; It&#8217;s hydrophobic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It hates water so much it forms into clumps when immersed in water,  and it remains dry even while &#8220;under&#8221; water.  This has got to be the perfect kitty litter material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/science\/628084\/kangaroos_put_on_the_pill_to_curb_population\/index.html\">Kangaroos put on birth control pills<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/article.php\/20060824spiderman4-confirmed\">Spider-man 4 confirmed<\/a> via Digg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ablboats.com\/details.asp?ListingID=74883\">Original S.S. Minnow for sale?<\/a> via Boing Boing<\/p>\n<p>Could be the real deal.  This reminds me of a secretary at my old job.  She bought the Lincoln (I think that was the model) driven by Jack Lord in Hawaii Five-O.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Swiss Army Knife offers 85 tools via Digg For only $1200, how can you live without it? Ok, so it&#8217;s missing a USB drive but it&#8217;s got a laser pointer. Magic Sand &#8211; It&#8217;s hydrophobic It hates water so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2006\/08\/25\/giant-swiss-army-knife-magic-hydrophobic-sand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-3Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}