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It’s Like An Apple Store…WITH GUNS

So described one viewer after watching the video below, which was shot at the futuristic Müller Schiess Zentrum facility in Germany. It has 3D hunting simulators! A restaurant! Shops! And enough white-washed walls and stark interiors to make Apple jealous. The shooting range is in Ulm, Germany, and even though the video is in German…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorized Playground Roundabout Catapults Wayward Youth

I’m sure the conversation that started “let’s hook a roundabout up to my tiny motorcycle and ride it until one of us flies off at breakneck speed” sounded much more convincing in the original German. [The Daily What via NextRound]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Steel ‘Velcro’ Made By Germans Supports 35 Tons, Heat At Up To 800 Degrees Celsius

If your Velcro jacket fasteners were made of this German-engineered steel “Velcro”, you’d be able to withstand 35 tons worth of force—provided your skin and bones don’t tear first. The “Velcro”, which isn’t really Velcro but has one side with spikes and the other with steel brushes, can withstand heat at up to 800 degrees…

Tech News Jason Chen

This is How Your Plastic Objects Are Made

Curious as to how all those plastic cups, trash cans and containers you get at Ikea are made? Random Good Stuff takes a tour of the Koziol plastics factory in Germany, where many of those household items are designed. The process is the same as the one used in the Lego factory, but instead of…

Tech News Jason Chen

I-Buddie Netbook Proves It Can Run Android

We don’t know much about this odd German I-Buddie netbook, but this video shows a prototype in action, which presumably means this Atom-driven gadget will actually be sold at some point. [Netbook News via Engadget]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

This German Short Is So So Strange and a Bit Wonderful

This (viral?) short isn’t particularly funny, inspiring or laden with effects. But it sort of nails the future right on the head. We’ll have OLED displays while maintaining a persistent fascination with breasts. [Thanks Matthias!]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Bacon Sets Off Airport Bomb Detector

According to German news site Nachrichten, a passenger at the Linz airport set off alarms when his suitcase full of bacon was mistaken for a bomb. The story was translated with Google, so it’s high on hilarity and low on verifiable detail. Apparently when asked to identify the suspicious material in his luggage, the passenger…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

German Mini-Marines Deploy Mini-Tanks, Prepare to Invade Mini-Poland

I’m glad the Germans got rid of the funny moustaches, the kinky uniforms, and they are on our side now, because these mini-tanks and mini-trucks—which could be deployed inside standard transport helicopters—give a new meaning to the word blitzkrieg. They can be rolled out in any location in a matter of seconds, as this recent…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Retromodo: East German Cold War Spy Gadgets Make Us Paranoid

Reader John from the Cambridge University Press blog tips us off to these crazy East German police (Stasi) gadgets used during the cold war. Lots of these gadgets are what you’d expect cold war gadgets to be—spy gear covertly inserted into everyday objects—but others are for surveillance. One of them, a spy camera shoved inside…

Gadgets Jason Chen

WWII Mine Blown Up Spectacularly in Front of English Beach

This is what you get down on the beach on a Saturday afternoon—if you’re in the West of England. Experts detonated a German mine from the Second World War after they discovered it in Bridgwater Bay. The 10 x 2.5-foot mine was dropped during the war by a German bomber, and was discovered sitting in…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

New Mediamesh and Illumesh Technologies Turn Entire Buildings Into LED Ads

AG4 and GKD Metal Fabrics, a German architecture and design company and a woven metal fabric company, respectively, have designed Mediamesh and Illumesh—an LED technology to turn regular building sides into gigantic colorful ads. These two new methods of cabling and lighting let developers place LEDs even over windows—which was verboten before—thanks to the fact…

Tech News Jason Chen

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Not Ignoring Europe for Zunes

Good news Europeans. Those reports last week with Ballmer stating that Microsoft had no plans to import the Zune to Europe were mistaken, thanks to a mistranslated German article. That picture on the left? That’s Ballmer telling people to hold the fuck up and pay attention to what he really said: Our primary goal was…

Tech News Jason Chen

German Shift Knob LCD Makes Gadget Fans Happy

Although people who drive stick know what gear they’re in by feel, this German shift knob is something we think they can get behind. It’s a learning shifter, which you assign gear numbers to depending on your car’s specific position. When you switch to that gear, the LCD display on the top shows you correct…

Gadgets Jason Chen

MP3 Player Lederhose, For Oktoberfest

According to I4U, Oktoberfest opened up in Munich this weekend. Last time I checked it was September, but whatever. What a better way to show how much of a geek you are while chugging beer than with teched-out lederhose. In addition to making you look like the sexiest overweight, middle-aged man at Oktoberfest, the lederhose…

Tech News Travis Hudson

It’s Like An Apple Store…WITH GUNS

Motorized Playground Roundabout Catapults Wayward Youth

Steel ‘Velcro’ Made By Germans Supports 35 Tons, Heat At Up To 800 Degrees Celsius

This is How Your Plastic Objects Are Made

I-Buddie Netbook Proves It Can Run Android

This German Short Is So So Strange and a Bit Wonderful

Bacon Sets Off Airport Bomb Detector

German Mini-Marines Deploy Mini-Tanks, Prepare to Invade Mini-Poland

Retromodo: East German Cold War Spy Gadgets Make Us Paranoid

WWII Mine Blown Up Spectacularly in Front of English Beach

New Mediamesh and Illumesh Technologies Turn Entire Buildings Into LED Ads

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Not Ignoring Europe for Zunes

German Shift Knob LCD Makes Gadget Fans Happy

MP3 Player Lederhose, For Oktoberfest

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