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Korean Engineers Develop Miraculous 20,000-Year Photograph

Tucked into a dark and tiny corner of the PMA showfloor is a revolution made by a small Korean company called Wooyoun: metal photographs that last for 20,000 years. These images depicting the Democratic US presidential frontrunners (and no Republicans) were chemically etched in a patented, print-like process—probably with stuff that gives improperly masked technicians some horribly debilitating ailment. They'll last up to 1,000 years under the hot unforgiving sun. Hear that? Screw biodegradability. Put another way, that Hillary card you see in the gallery will outlast her reign by at least 15,000 years.

10:30 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By matt buchanan
7,461 views, 27 comments

Latest by Toysandme: This is very old news. The photoceramic process was invented in 1855 and has been used on tombstones since that date all over Europe. In recent years the process has been adapted to color photography. 35,000 year old vitrified objects have more »

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U Bend...Books Become Bookends

The U Bend is a book rack with a trick: it creates its own bookend for you. Impossible you say? The work of sorcery, and even black magic, you wonder? Nope. The bar is bent so one book is recessed below the others, allowing many books to lean on just one. But for $95, we wish that it included a second bookend. [product page via bltd]

11:50 AM on Sat Jul 14 2007
By Mark Wilson
6,073 views, 12 comments

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The Dorky Genesis of Those "I'm a Mac" Ads

And here you thought that Apple's advertising geniuses were completely original. This is a scan from a 1996 issue of MacAddict (click it for the big version), and boy, what a difference 10 years makes. Look, PC users wear suits! And Apple users wear… denim shirts over a t-shirt tucked into their hiked-up dad jeans? And an earring? Yikes, Apple users. That outfit wasn't even hip in 1996, which shows you how cool the editors of MacAddict are/were. More »

10:47 AM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Adam Frucci
9,055 views, 49 comments

Latest by Omega: Both the photos look weird to say the least, but the Mac guy looks like a douche-bag. He looks like a 35-year-old high school student. If anyone needs to be slapped, it's that guy. Wacky watch? What is more »