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The Faded Glory of Dilapidated Modernist Homes
Modern architecture is usually grandly depicted in pristine photographs against seductive backdrops. But buildings, like all things, are subject to the decay of time. The photographs of Chris Mottalini depict modernist homes, built by Paul Rudolph in the mid-twentieth century, in a deteriorated state, shortly before their planned demolition. They sit unoccupied, bereft of the … Continued
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Despite rumors that Nike will be killing Fuelband, the company has finally released an Android app. It’s long overdue, but better late than never, sure. Besides, even if the fitness band is on the outs, it still makes sense to support existing devices. [Google Play via Engadget]
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Dentists Found a Pain-Free Cavity Fix That Might Actually Work
Researchers from King’s College London just announced a new approach to fixing cavities that requires no injections, no drills, and no pain. It’s just a little blast of electric current that encourages the tooth to self-repair. And they say it’ll be on the market in three years. The new technique sounds confusingly simple. Cavities form … Continued
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Deals: Nest Protect Returns, Hard Drives, $20 Polarized Sunglasses
After a brief recall, the Nest Protect carbon monoxide and smoke detector is once again available for sale, this time at a $30 discount. It’s still more than your garden variety smoke detector, but boy is it awesome . [Nest Protect, $99] https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sr_1_1_acs_h_1i_3036671011&?tag=gizmodo08c-20 Apple’s AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme aren’t the most customizable routers out … Continued
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Ikea’s New Glowing Stool Lights a Safe LED Fire Under Your Butt
The summer isn’t even here yet, but if you’re leaving home and heading off to college in September, it’s never too early to start planning and stockpiling what you’ll need. And since you’ll probably be crammed into a tiny dorm room, Ikea’s new glowing LED stool does double duty as a lamp and place to … Continued
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Light transforms trees into floating geometric structures
Artist Javier Riera—from Avilés, Spain—creates these Luminance Interventions, where geometric patterns are projected on trees, transforming them from organic matter into magical geometric structures that seem to float above the landscape. “I think that geometry is the best language to describe the pulse of nature’s depths. What happens in landscape can be explained with mathematics, … Continued
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Should You Go to Jail For Making Threats on Facebook?
The Supreme Court announced that it will hear the appeal of Anthony Elonis, a man convicted and sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for making threats over Facebook—threats that were often in the form of rap lyrics—according to The Morning Call, the local newspaper covering the case. Elonis claims his threats to kill … Continued
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Incredible video of wild Alaskan brown bear chilling out with a camper
Drew Hamilton, a tech worker at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, was chilling out with a friend, admiring the majestic landscape at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary, when a cool Alaskan brown bear walked into the scene, sat down, and just chilled out for a while contemplating the river. It’s amazing that … Continued
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Google’s About to Ruin YouTube by Squeezing Indie Labels
It’s official: Google is about to ruin YouTube. A company exec told the Financial Times it will start blocking videos from record labels that refuse to sign licensing deals for its forthcoming premium service, YouTube Music Pass. This is the dumbest thing Google could do, and it threatens the very heart of what has always … Continued
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Raytheon’s Modular Missile Defense Snaps Together Like Lego Bricks
As the number and variety of air, space, and surface-based threats to our naval fleets continue to proliferate, defending against them all is getting harder and harder. But equipped with this new unified threat detection system from Raytheon, our Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will know what’s coming from 30 times farther away. Dubbed the Air and … Continued
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Building the Part of Facebook No One Ever Sees
Ever since we humans gave up the nomadic life and started building homes, architecture had one goal: To make life better for humans. But now, a new architecture is taking shape in remote, frozen corners of the world. And it’s not designed for humans. It’s for machines. In this case, for the remote machines that … Continued
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How Bell Labs Almost Put a Videophone in Every Home
From the 1950s until the 1970s Bell Labs spent over $500 million developing the videophone. But the technology failed to achieve mainstream success. Why? Bill Hammack from the University of Illinois has a great video explaining the tremendous promise and eventual demise of the videophone as a standalone appliance in the mid-20th century. Below is … Continued
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New Guardians of the Galaxy’s trailer reveals new cool scenes
After this new trailer, it’s clear that the amount of eye candy in the new Marvel space opera Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be so high that I think we should all take a Xanax before watching it—to avoid having seizures. Or, my favorite option, pop an Ambien and enjoy the hallucinatory ride. … Continued
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“Radiophonic Satie”
This is a recording of fake, Radiophonic space-age Satie that I attempted with a combination of my ukulele and the modular synthesis kit I’ve been slowly experimenting with. The short version is I’m trying to use the modular synth as a realtime processing unit, taking in the sound of the ukulele and making something of … Continued
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Steaklocker Could Let You Dry-Age Delicious Beef Chunks at Home
Dry-aged beef. It’s a phrase that gets fancy steak-lovers’ mouths all drooly. The magic dance of enzymes and moisture reduction creates out-of-this-world flavor and tenderness that, unless you’ve got restaurant-grade equipment, you can’t recreate at home. Steaklocker wants to change that, with a device on Kickstarter that promises to bring that meaty magic to your … Continued
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China’s New Tallest Building Adds a Floor Every 96 Hours
At 2,165 feet, Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center is about to become the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world. And it’s getting there very quickly: According to a new report from DesignBoom, workers are finishing a new floor of the 115-story building every four days. That’s a remarkable pace for a … Continued
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The Only Thing More Relaxing Than a Zen Garden Is One Made Of Candy
For some people, a box of chocolates is the perfect way to de-stress after a long day. For others, a few minutes painstakingly tending to a desktop zen garden does the trick. But for those who are really stressed, an edible candy zen garden brings everything together into the ultimate way to relax. Japanese art … Continued
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17 Pieces of Origami From a Huge New Show About Paper Folding
To most of us, the boundaries of origami are pretty well established: You have your cranes, your elephants, and your paper footballs. But hundreds of artists around the world use origami as a technical framework for making original art—and now, 88 of those artists are getting a high-profile show of their work. At New York’s … Continued
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Betamax vs. VHS: How Sony Lost the Original Home Video Format War
Remember a few years ago when Blu-ray battled HD-DVD in the high-def DVD format war? Sony and Blu-ray ultimately won out, but there was a time when the electronics giant wasn’t as successful in getting its way. As the EngineerGuy explains, the first home video recorder to hit the market back in 1975 was from … Continued
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Why Do We Still Have Pubic Hair?
It’s a biological mystery that has perplexed humanity through the ages – especially in recent times when so many of us go to such great lengths to remove it. What useful purpose could pubic and armpit hair possibly serve? Is it just Mother Nature playing a sick joke on us? Does she own stock in … Continued
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