WE ALL know by now that smoking is bad for you, but one man has tried to turn the unhealthy habit into something constructive.
Taylor Lane from California has created a surfboard from more than 10,000 cigarette butts for his winning entry in the annual 'Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest' held in San Juan, USA.
The board "gives you an awkward feeling, that something so pretty is so icky at the same time," said one impressed visitor.
Other entries included an Aussie who submitted a surf board made from an old bathroom door.
As ingenious as the new 'cigarette butt surf board' is, users of the craft say the fact it needs to tow along a giant ashtray is a major drawback of the design.
being a researcher doesn't usually totally suck, although this innovation comes pretty close.
Scientists from the School of Robotic Design at London's Royal College of Art have come up with a new "robotic anchoring module" inspired by an octopus.
A report in the Journal of the Royal Society presents the "sensorised mechanism for attachment to the environment" - also known as a big electronic sucker - which can be integrated into robots to enhance their ability to manipulate objects.
It's fitted with fibre optic sensors allowing it to measure its location and giving it a 'sense of touch'.
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