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#howto
The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your New Xmas Smartphone
The moment you unpackage a new smartphone is a magical one. Don't let the moment right after that, when you realize that it's practically useless out of the box, cancel that out. Here's everything you need to know:
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#architecture
How To: Build Your Own Full-Scale Eiffel Tower
So you've got your 7,000 metric tons of puddling iron, your unruly 19th-century French construction crew, your Michelin starred chef and a Rosetta Stone French DVD. Today, finally, you have the final piece: Blueprints! More » -
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RoboCop Gets the Job Done
Skeptics will tell you that Wytheville, Virginia hostage-taker Warren Taylor climbed out of his chair, laid on the ground and surrendered to police by his own will. But I think it's obvious what really happened here. [DailyMail, AP] More » -
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#sartorialchoices
The Japanese Snuggie Devolves Humans Into Giant, Two-Legged Tadpoles
Say hello to the Japanese Snuggie. The Two-Legged Sleeping bag. The Human Larva. Say hello to...this. There is no pitchman charismatic enough, no paid spokesperson straghtfaced enough, no model poised enough to give this the informercial it so clearly deserves.
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#jailbreakapps
N64 Emulator Hits Jailbroken iPhones, With Bluetooth Wiimote Support
Last month, ZodTTD, the guy who basically pioneered game emulation on the iPhone, promised us an N64 emulator. Today, that's exactly what he's delivered, with a bonus: Wiimote support, via Bluetooth. More » -
#data
iPhone, Meet Razr: The Ten Most Popular Phones in the Country
I have to admit I was surprised at the iPhone and BlackBerry 8300 series did so well here—the two most popular handsets in the country, going into 2010, are full-fledged smartphones. Also surprising: people still buy Razrs. Razrs! More » -
#architecture
An Eerie Video Tour of the World's Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall
South China Mall, built in Dongguan and more than twice as large as Minnesota's Mall of America, was completed in 2005. Today, it sits almost completely empty. It is, by any account, the world's largest ghost mall. More » -
#art
Beautiful Soviet Children's Books Make Me Wish I Was Born Behind the Iron Curtain
I mean, not really, but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations, from 1989's Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children, and pure poetry to the rest of us.
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Dead or Alive, You're Learning With Me
An ornery-looking bipedal educational robot, intended to teach Japanese schoolchildren about humanoid machines, is unveiled at the Nippon Institute of Technology. Lesson one, for the children: robots are nothing to be afraid of. Lesson two: except this one. [PlasticPals] More » -
#iphoneapps
This Week's Best iPhone Apps
In this week's tragically undersupported app roundup: Unicorns, summoned! Bing, Bunged! Human beings, shot to death! Fancy cars, fancily raced! Food quanities, measured relatively! Everything, copied and pasted! Keyboards, questionably revolutionized! And more...
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