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Projector Wedding Ring Will Make You Look Highly Unromantic by Comparison

Not content with your run of the mill giant rock, soon to be award winning husband Luke Jerram teamed up with a local jewelry designer to create a custom mini-projector wedding ring. And a chorus of ten thousand Awwwwwwws rang out. Jerram’s design was inspired by 19th century stanhopes (don’t worry, I didn’t know what…

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Star Wars: Trench Run 2.0 Turns iPhone to X-Wing

A new update to last year’s Star Wars: Trench Run will allow users to use their iPhone or iPad as a full motion controller. The new controllers will link up with a big screen, in-browser version of the game. The 2.0 update, available as a $0.99 in-app purchase, works using Infrared 5’s proprietary “Brass Monkey”…

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Science Museum Seeking Human Subject for Monthlong Exhibit

If the thought of you sleeping in a museum by yourself for a month isn’t the stuff anxiety attacks are made of, then perhaps you’re just who Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is looking for. The MSI is accepting applicants for its 30 day “Month at the Museum” project, during which one lucky (?)…

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Vlingo SpeedDialer for Android Aims to Replace 411

Hoping to assist you on your next quest for immediate pizza consumption, voice search company Vlingo has debuted its SuperDialer business directory app for Android. SuperDialer will take your spoken queries and spit back local results. Say “Chinese food,” for example, and SuperDialer will provide a list of the closest places to grab some lo…

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iPad Projector Renders 3D Objects for the Naked Eye

Experimental design team Aircord Labs has released a proof of concept video demonstrating an iPad with 3D capabilities visible to the naked eye. The effect is achieved with a specially designed projector that beams images into a pyramid shaped screen. Once projected, viewers can move around the floating imagery, almost as if they were real…

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“Smart” Alloy Will Make Your Air Conditioner 175% More Efficient

Leaving your air conditioner on full blast all day might soon come with a little less guilt, thanks to an alloy developed by the University of Maryland. The “thermally elastic” material could allow air conditioners to run 175% more efficiently. The new metal serves as a solid coolant, as opposed to the traditional (and environmentally…

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How Close to the Sun Can You Survive?

With July in full force, it already feels like the Sun’s rays are slobbering down our necks. But what if it were closer to us? Say, 90 million miles closer? Popular Science investigates how near we could go and survive. Even though the life-giving fireball burns at an unfathomable 9,940°F, PopSci notes that its heat…

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Pinel & Pinel Arcade Trunk Is the Poshest Imaginable Way to Play Space Invaders

Calfskin upholstery, chromium plating, premium speakers—not exactly reminiscent of an arcade gaming experience. But if want to ditch your emulator for something a bit more, dare we say, decadent, luxury French cabinet maker Pinel & Pinel will indulge. Despite boasting an assortment 60 retro titles (including the requisite Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and 1942), the appeal…

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Valcucine Logica Kitchen Will Brighten Up Any Underground Bunker

Italian haute kitchen design company Valcucine have debuted their ‘New Logica’ series of ergonomic, adaptable kitchen fixtures. Each of the kitchen’s various shelves, drawers, and racks are placed within quick reach and easily rearrangeable. The clean lines and scratch resistant, nano-coated surfaces will ensure a beautiful cooking environment for even the pickiest of modernist chefs…

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Smart Helmet Provides Injury Awareness on the Slopes

The only thing worse than embarrassing yourself while skiing or snowboarding is messing up your cranium in the process. Enter the Head Impact Detection and Alert System, a sophisticated helmet that both detects and signals brain injuries as they occur. Developed by a team of students at Northeastern University, the helmet combines an array of…

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NASA Offers Cash for Inflatable Space Shelters

NASA has kicked off a competition among university engineers to design an inflatable habitat that is “light-weight, safe, and reliable” to house future astronauts “in space and on other planetary bodies.” On the line is $58,000. The eXploration Habitat (or X-Hab) “lofts,” as NASA is chicly terming them, must be designed to sit as an…

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Projector Wedding Ring Will Make You Look Highly Unromantic by Comparison

Star Wars: Trench Run 2.0 Turns iPhone to X-Wing

Science Museum Seeking Human Subject for Monthlong Exhibit

Vlingo SpeedDialer for Android Aims to Replace 411

iPad Projector Renders 3D Objects for the Naked Eye

“Smart” Alloy Will Make Your Air Conditioner 175% More Efficient

How Close to the Sun Can You Survive?

Pinel & Pinel Arcade Trunk Is the Poshest Imaginable Way to Play Space Invaders

Valcucine Logica Kitchen Will Brighten Up Any Underground Bunker

Smart Helmet Provides Injury Awareness on the Slopes

NASA Offers Cash for Inflatable Space Shelters

Forget Amazon Fire TV Soundbar, Samsung B-Series Soundbar With Built-In Subwoofer Still Under $100 for Post-Spring Sale

Apple M4 MacBook Air Is Still at Its Spring Sale Low as Amazon Moves Into Clearance Mode, No Need to Wait for Prime Day

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ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Just Got Cheaper Again After Spring Sale, With 3 Months of Game Pass Included at No Extra Cost

Protect Your Car Without Overpaying, Batteries Plus Makes Finding the Right Battery Size Easy and Affordable

WD 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Mac Drops to $0.03 per GB Even After Amazon’s Spring Sale

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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