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If you want a permanent reminder of an amazing hike, ski trip, or whatever else, here’s a good idea: a new website called The Terrainator lets you select your favourite geographical features and get ’em 3D printed. Dan Wilson, the man behind the project, explains how it came about: I’ve had the good fortune to…
The Asus Transformer Pad is the first non-Nexus device to get an Android 4.2 update… today!
Chinese artist Liu Bolin does a wonderful job of hiding himself in all kinds of locations, but this video reveals exactly how he does it. A time-lapse taken at this year’s TED conference, it shows Bolin on stage, being painted in-situ. The artist explains: “For the talk, I stood up on stage with my outfit…
Seagate is completely discontinuing its entire range of 7200rpm 2.5-inch drives later this year. Blame SSDs.
If you wanted to learn an unconventional instrument, maybe you’d opt for the accordion or the glockenspiel. J.viewz decided to build his own. Out of fruits and vegetables. Sure, he didn’t have to use fruits and vegetables to create the effect, but it just wouldn’t be the same without them. Song’s not half bad either.…
You can take your “Float On” and put it right back on the shelf, because the real meat of Modest Mouse lies a bit further back in the catalogue. “Polar Opposites” is a prime example. Off Modest Mouse’s classic 1997 sophomore album The Lonesome Crowded West—home of other fantastic songs like “Trailer Trash“, and “Doin’…
Art nerds will know their complimentary colors, but for the rest of us, food pairings are far more interesting/important. Minneapolis-based graphic designer and illustrator David Schwen, but together this clever little collection of “pantone pairings” as little Instagram art project. And while you’d be hard-pressed to find a bucket of “pantone cookie” for your walls,…
It may sound hard to believe, but doctors from Mississippi are saying that for the first time, an infant has been cured of an HIV infection. The New York Times relays reports from doctors who say the infant had tested positive for HIV on five separate occasions and now, at age two and a half…
Microsoft has been pretty quiet about their long term plans for the Windows 8 ecosystem, but its job board has been pretty loud-mouthed. First, it hinted at the plan for Windows Blue, and now a new posting indicated that the next big thing for Windows Phone is probably going to show up at the end…
Let’s be real here, most of the time smartphones get used for a lot of nothing. But in India women are using their smartphones to protect themselves by tracking local incidents of harassment and violence. Safety websites and apps have been increasingly popular since a woman was fatally attacked in New Delhi last December. The…
We’ve all done our fair share of chucking paper airplanes at friends. And maybe, if you’re a real engineer, you’ve made some clever, paper-folding modifications that let your plane do a loop—or better yet actually land on target. Joerg Sparve has turned his eye towards those paper aircraft, and needless to say, the outcome can…
It seems that either you can’t fathom how inbox zero could ever be possible, or you can’t imagine how anyone could get by anything but. Which camp do you fall into? Have you got 4 or 5 weekend emails stacked up in there, waiting to be cleared out come Monday? Or do you have 4…
When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and…
Bored with simply taking pictures with cameras, photographer and X-ray technician Blake Billings resorted to taking some pictures of cameras, using his local X-ray machine. Up to, you’ll see a Nikon D60 Some of the cameras’ innards are packed in there a little too tight to get a really nice look at their guts, but…
Oh 3D printing. You’re so glamorous. You’re so cool. But, let’s be honest, you’re soooo expensive. Maybe instead of printing with $30 spools of plastic you could print with empty shampoo bottles and milk jugs. Oh, you can do that? See, this is why everyone loves you. Researchers at Michigan Technological University have created a…
There are all kinds of dangers on a trip to Mars. Muscle atrophy, cramped quarters, social/isolation stress, being in space. Take your pick. One of the biggest though, is being exposed to all manner of radiation and cosmic rays without an o-zone layer to keep you safe. The solution? An O-zone layer of poop. Basically.…
The F-22 has had more than its fair share of problems, but when it isn’t crashing or suffocating its pilots it’s a sight to behold. Here’s some footage of one at today’s Melborne Air Show going for a vertical climb that makes it look like it had wanted to be a rocket when it grew…
Biking down to the store to pick up a two liter of soda is one thing. Bombing down a steep street at full speed, throwing all caution to the wind is another, and Marcelo Gutierrez is a pro at it. This is is winning run from the recent Valparaiso Urban Downhill competition, and it’s enough…
Some people just have to have lyrics in their music. Those people are suckers. Mogwai is for non-suckers, and for post-rock newbies “Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home” is fantastic way to start. And in general it’s just a great jam. Off the Scottish band’s critically acclaimed debut Young Team, “Yes! I Am…
The whole “Keep Calm and [X]” trend has been a fun little meme for merchandisers everywhere, ever since the now-public domain WWII slogan was rediscovered. But a seller on Amazon might have taken the opportunity too far. So far, in fact, that Amazon found itself having to take down some offers for a “Keep Calm…
