He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.

NPR: Four Years of College Yield a Beer Catapult

Chinese washing machine manufacturer Heier sent a technician to a remote agricultural region in China where they had been receiving numerous breakdowns.

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In December 1998, a group of 16 western tourists, mostly British, was seized at gunpoint on a remote desert road in southern Yemen and taken hostage by fanatical, machine-gun-wielding militants.

BBC: End of an era as Abu Hamza to be extradited

It can be awkward to drop in on a client and then ask if you can use the machine's Remote Disc feature to wirelessly borrow the optical drive on one of the client's computers if he hands you material on a CD-ROM.

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Snapshots of the user's acoustic patterns were sent to a remote server, where the user's emotional state would be calculated by a machine-learning system.

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Those looking to dictate your PS3 with that (presumably costly) universal IR remote, take heart, as the clever folks at Remote Central have whipped up a way to add infrared functionality to your IR-less machine.

ENGADGET: Control your PlayStation 3 with IR