Clear Glass Dinner Plate Dollar Tree $1.25 Buy Now You can lean in to the 1920s and host a Great Gatsby -themed dinner party with these plates, but since they’re translucent, they can fit into ...

Although you can technically eat off of these plates, great care will need to be taken when washing them. Because of this, it's best to only place dry goods like crackers and cookies on these plates.

Notably, the glass plates don't need any power to do their job. You just stack them on a shelf and read them when needed. Rowstron says Project Silica is being developed with the cloud in mind.

The glass plate image of Jupiter, above left, is from the Carnegie Institute, which maintains a collection of 250,000 glass plates taken from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and Calfornia's ...

Above: Glass-wearing skydivers dove out of planes to announce the new wearable at Google I/O 2012. Google’s only real sin with Glass was not being more clear about that from the get-go.

So Rubba ended up buying his own $10,000 glass crusher—a machine that’s more often used by hotels and clubs that go through massive quantities of bottles in order to compact their waste. (The ...