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Reverse Perspective Video Will Drive You Bonkers
This video shows God’s view of the world. No, I’m not kidding. Trust me, there’s an explanation about why God must really have a lot of problems grabbing his coffee mug. That’s what Orthodox artists of the Byzantine and Russian Empires called this way of looking at the world. A world in which lines converge … Continued
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This Toaster Is Actually a Dead Person
This is Anne Lindeboom. She was born in 1920 and died in 1984. Now, she is a toaster. Or better said, her ashes are. The toaster was created by Dutch artist Wieke Somers. She uses a prototype printing machine to create these objects, mixing dead people ashes and epoxy, which get melted in layers following … Continued
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What’s Your Tech Setup to Watch the World Cup?
This week, Michael Surtees showed off his World Cup rig—the gear that he’s watching the matches on. When we saw the picture, it got us thinking. What kind of set-up are you using to get your football fixes? Given that many people around the world will be using their mobile devices to access the games, … Continued
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The Infinity Cocktail Table Will Suck Your Soul
The Infinity Cocktail Table uses mirrors and LED lights to create the illusion of an infinite hole going down your home’s floor, all the way down to Earth’s magma core. It’s like a fancy door to Hell’s most exclusive club. It’s also one of the naffest tables in the history of mankind. At $880 a … Continued
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The Stupid iPhone-Controlled Computer Game You Have to Play Today
Pirata Boat Race is a computer game that uses your iPhone as a Wiimote. As you can see, it’s also a sure way to look like a moron, but that’s only half the fun of it. It’s a very simple game, but it uses a clever way to pair your iPhone with each ship. First, … Continued
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This Is How Insanely Sharp the iPhone 4 Screen Looks
There has been a lot of discussion about the iPhone 4 Retina display lately. Forget about it and look at the amazing resolution in this extreme close ups. Compare it to the iPhone 3GS screen or your own phone. Insane. Click images for high resolution versions Check the video in full res and HD to … Continued
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Pilot Kisses Death On the Lips and Flies Away
If you’re lucky, one day you may have a near-death experience that will make you appreciate the joy of life in the most powerful way imaginable. If you are a Red Bull Air Race pilot, those experiences look like this. This is Matt Hall at the qualifying day—June 5th—of the Red Bull Air Race World … Continued
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F-18 Coming Out of Hyperspace
Apparently, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets of the Royal Australian Air Force have teleporting powers. That, or the Australians have discovered a way to magically create combat jets out of vapor. Click to see the high definition image above. Or maybe they are just vapor trails forming on the aircraft’s wings, as the RAAF pilots … Continued
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You Will Like the Facebook Like Rubber Stamp
I’m tempted to ask for one of this Facebook Like button rubber stamp. Just to print the ten reasons you should quit Facebook and smash all the pages with it. Alternatively, I’m thinking about using it to stamp random pretty people’s asses on the street. [Nation]
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The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein
I don’t know when optical quantum computers are going to arrive, but I sure hope they look like this crazy Toshiba visualization of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode. This new LED type could finally make practical quantum computers possible. According to Mark Stevenson—from Toshiba Research Europe—experts, the current breed of laser-based optical quantum computing experiments … Continued
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Flying Into the Silent World
In 1955, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and film director Louis Malle sailed 12,000 nautical miles aboard the Calypso to film the first underwater color movie. A year later, they showed everyone a whole new world, and the exhilarating freedom of diving. After writing The Silent World, Cousteau and his crew descended into the waters of the Mediterranean, … Continued
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The Pac-Man Ship That Eats Oil Spills
The Bottsand class oil recovery ships cruise just like any other vessel, until they reach an oil spill. Then, they open like Pac-Man, transforming into a machine that can clean the oil from 140 cubic meters of water per hour. Created by the Deutsche Marine—the German Navy—the Bottsand-class opens in half, creating an area to … Continued
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Is This the Craziest Bridge Ever Designed?
I don’t know if the Pearl River Necklace bridge is the craziest bridge ever designed, but it sure looks like the most twisted one. It’s a clever solution to a very real and obvious problem, however. The bridge is part of a proposal by NL Architects to connect Hong Kong with mainland China. To do … Continued
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This Macintosh Is Really an iPad
This is an iPad disguised as a classic Macintosh. It’s also a clever, beautiful stand. I’m not gutting my original 1984 Macintosh to make one, but I’m thinking about buying the same Macintosh Classic just to have the same setup. Really clever and pretty hack. [Hirac] Click to view
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First Broken iPhone 4 Screen
The iPhone is made of aluminosilicate glass. Apple says it’s “chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic” and it’s “ultradurable and more scratch resistant than ever.” Still not enough to survive a 3.5-foot drop. That’s what the people at iFixyouri did: Test Apple’s claims by dropping the iPhone 4 … Continued
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Hey Apple, Make The iPad Arcade Possible Already
The iPad, the future of computing, touchscreen this, touchscreen that, yadda yadda, blahblahblah. BLAH. What about connecting it to a joystick to get an instant mini-arcade machine? That’s what Hideyoshi Moriya did, using Arduino circuitry and cardboard. Imagine the possibilities: That was an April Fools’ Day joke by Think Geek, but Moriya’s hack is very … Continued
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