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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Watch This Timelapse of Microsoft’s Original HQ Being Built From Scratch
Check out this fantastic timelapse of Microsoft’s original headquarters being built. Back in 1985, when planners plotted out the rising company’s campus, Microsoft figured it’d need 88 acres of land in a forest near a one-stoplight suburb of Seattle called Redmond. The first office complex was a total of four star-shaped buildings you see in … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
10 Inspiring Objects from Salone del Mobile, the Center of the Design Universe
Salone del Mobile limped to a close last week, with tons of shade being thrown at exhibitors by big-name critics who say it’s “changed.” Yep, the glitziest, most-hyped design week of the year—informally nicknamed Salone del Marketing—has definitely changed. Chalk it up to the protracted recession most of Europe is slogging through: $160,000 tables just … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Your Ass Makes These Chair Paintings Come to Life
Need to stash a few extra seats in your place? You could opt for folding chairs like a rube, or you could hang that spare seating on your wall. Dreamt up by Japanese design studio YOY and shown off at Milan Design Week 2013, each piece’s frame is made out of wood and and aluminum … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Kool-Aid Man Bursts Into the Future With a CGI Makeover
Nearly 60 years since he first appeared in an advertisement, Kool-Aid man is finally breaking through the digital wall to a new CGI-look. Oooooooh yeah! Kool-Aid Man was first introduced as a crudely animated “Pitcher Man” in 1954. Eventually, the animation evolved into a man in weird pitcher costume. The script of each commercial was … Continued
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Tech News
Simpsons DVDs Are Your Perfectly Cromulent Deal of the Day
Did you know that there’s no legal way to stream all-you-can-watch Simpsons episodes online? (Actually, Hulu streams the most recent episodes, but you can’t even watch them on your TV.) That seems like a real missed opportunity, and it means if you wanted to revisit vintage El Barto, you’ll have to catch him on syndication, … Continued
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The Fake Websites of Law & Order Are So Stupid I Wish They Were Real
Law & Order has never been a paragon of TV realism—just take a look at the websites it makes up as plot devices. Poor Ice-T has to browse a web that’s nothing but rape sites and murder porn. So, really, it’s not that far off: the internet really is an amalgam of perverts, exploited tweens, … Continued
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Filing Your Taxes Online Was Even More Terrible in 1991
If you’re one of the many tax-procrastinating thrill seekers who waited until the last minute to get cracking, there’s a pretty good chance you spent most of that time cursing TurboTax’s powers that be. It might have even been enough to make you yearn for a simpler time, a time when we weren’t dependent on … Continued
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Tech News
Can This Insulated Pillow Sack Really Replace a Slow Cooker?
Second only to the microwave as the appliance lazy chefs rely on most, the slow cooker is the easiest way to prepare a meal when you really don’t want to pay attention to the process. But the Wonderbag promises to further improve the joy of slow cooking by not requiring a power source to finish … Continued
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Tech News
How to Awaken Your Lawn from Its Winter Slumber
Whether your lawn is the emerald crown jewel of the neighborhood or has more brown spots than a cheetah, now is the time to give your yard a spring cleaning. If you’re just trying to get rid of the dead spots or starting over from scratch, here’s what you’ll need to do to ensure your … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
This Interactive Music Video Is an Insanely Fun Tribute to the Mouse Pointer
The new crowdsourced video for “Kilo” by Light Light is a game that you absolutely need to go play right away. Go check it out immediately at donottouch.org. Produced by Amstersdam-based design studio Moniker, the video provides you with instructions of what to do with your cursor, records your mouse movements, and then adds them … Continued
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Tech News
These Brain-Hugging Transistors Will Make Real-Life Cyborgs
Transistors were one of the most revolutionary developments in modern computing. And that was without directly implanting them in our brains. Now, the first microscopic organic transistor arrays promise to let us do just that. https://gizmodo.com/65-years-ago-the-transistor-jump-started-the-world-of-m-5968857 Developed by French scientists building off prototypes designed by the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, these new flexible … Continued
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Tech News
Digital Drills: The Monster Machines that Mine Bitcoin
Bitcoin! It’s everywhere right now. Its value is dropping, spiking, dropping again. More and more new converts are hopping in, buying a few coins and trying their hands at the market, looking to make a quick buck with a profitable exchange. But all the while, there’s an ever-dwindling army of specialists working in the shadows, … Continued
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Tech News
Enjoy Marshmallow Superiority With This Air-Compressed Bazooka
It might not bring a complete end to your office warfare, but like with nuclear weapons, this marshmallow-blasting Mazooka should bring an uneasy truce for fear of it actually being used. Six AA batteries power a built-in air compressor that generates enough pressure to fire a large marshmallow up to 40 feet—making those manual pump-action … Continued
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Tech News
A Flow Chart Explaining All Time Travel in Movies
Ever wonder how the time travel theories in one movie line up with every other movie about time travel? Here’s a pretty great flowchart that susses out exactly which type of of temporal chaos a movie wreaks. Although even with this thing, I still don’t know what the heck was going on in Twelve Monkeys. … Continued
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This Natural Gas Plant Is Turbo-Charged by the Sun
With the decreasing popularity of coal and increasing volatility of petroleum prices, natural gas is emerging as a major energy resource in the the United States. And while we have plenty of reserves, an estimated 318 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf), it’s still a non-renewable resource that must be used sparingly whenever possible—like this new natural … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Test Your Touch Typing Prowess With a Murdered Out Keyboard
Targeted at gamers, developers, and anyone who spends a lot of time pounding on a keyboard, Cooler Master’s new CM Storm QuickFire Stealth features mechanical switches for that old-school feeling, and black keys that are only labeled on the front side. It’s not impossible for a non-touch typist to use the $95 Storm QuickFire Stealth, … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Every Apple Exec’s Face Combined into One Jobsian Ideal
While the news of four out of the five highest-paid execs in the US being from Apple isn’t entirely surprising, it’s hard not to marvel at their collective success. Which leads to the question, “Who are these gazillionaires? And what does it look like when you blend all of their faces together?” We’re so glad … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverized Seasonings
If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin—or shake—on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. The … Continued
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This Power Glove Oven Mitt Guarantees You’re a Wizard In the Kitchen
Taking inspiration from one of Nintendo’s most useless peripherals, the Power Mitt is an awesome riff on the Power Glove that promises to turn anyone into a wizard in the kitchen—with or without the help of Fred Savage. For $15 it can withstand the scorching temperatures of fire flowers, or piping hot baking sheets. And … Continued