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Watching This Man Have a Conversation With His 12-Year-Old Self Is Hilarious and Heartwarming
In 1992, Jeremiah McDonald, a 12-year-old kid with a dog named Molly (!!) and a thing for Dr. Who, recorded himself talking to the man he would become 20 years in the future. Well, thanks to math and time, the future is now! A precocious kid, Jeremiah grew up to be a slickly funny 32-year-old … Continued
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New Pipe Design Turns Taking a Shower into an Energy-Generating Activity
The ES Pipe Waterwheel, designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi, is a simple plumbing accessory that turns simple workaday activities—running a bath, washing your hands, hosing off the dog—into hydroelectricity generative tasks. The ES Pipe Waterwheel can be attached to most any standard water piping, simply by screwing it into place between any piping … Continued
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Boutique Fashion Brokers Pioneers the Virtual Trade-Show Platform
In the age of e-commerce and business meetings held over Skype, the travel and lodging expenses of attending a trade show are increasingly difficult to justify. And If you’re an emerging independent designer or the owner of a fashion boutique anywhere other than LA or NYC, scouting for new items and securing the right connections … Continued
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Watch This: Atlantic City Boardwalk Is Transformed by Glorious Display of Sound and Light
Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, yesterday, debuted Duality, a sound and light installation, commissioned by The Atlantic City Alliance as part of their effort to restore the city’s once-glorious reputation—think HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Duality is the work of the Montreal-based new media and entertainment studio Moment Factory, whose team of 75 has worked with everyone from … Continued
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Japanese Government: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Was a Manmade Disaster
The failures, explosions, leaks, and subsequent radioactive dead zone that will stain Japan for decades all started with an earthquake. Nobody can stop earthquakes. But after a thorough review, the Japanese government admits humans are responsible for the entire mess. The official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, produced by the Japanese … Continued
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Whoa, Huh, the F-22 Is Still Broken (!) (?)
I’m hoping you’re all planted deep in your seats with an oxygen mask strapped on, because the New York Times is reporting that the Air Force still can’t fix the F-22, the most expensive fighter in history. It sort of makes you wonder, should we continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars (and maybe … Continued
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Swaag.it: Show Off Your Style on Your iPhone
When you look good, you want other people to see you. And Swaag.it, a new fashion app, makes that happen. What does it do? Ignore just for a second that this app has an egregiously awful name. Swaag.it (I am having trouble saying that seriously) lets you upload photos of you in your finest duds, … Continued
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There’s an Entire Kitchen’s Worth of Cooking Tools In This Bottle
For chefs with more epicurean ambition than space in their kitchen comes Bento & co’s Bin 8 bottle which at first glance looks like an empty wine bottle. But on closer inspection you’ll discover it hides a kitchen’s worth of cooking implements. When disassembled the Bin 8 reveals that it’s actually composed of a funnel … Continued
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Constellation Lampshade Projects the Starry Sky Across Your Ceiling
If you live in a big city with enough streetlights to drown out the stars for miles in all directions, you can still catch a glimpse of the cosmos in the comfort of your own home with Anna Farkas’ 2500 Watt lampshade. The artist has painstakingly drilled holes in the shade for all of the … Continued
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Soccer’s New Ball-Tracking Technology Should Be Used In Every Sport
At last, after years of horribly bad referee calls, the cave full of old crooks and farts known as FIFA has approved the use of technology to track the ball in soccer games. This is a huge change, with profound implications in the most popular sport in the world. Soccer—or football, as everyone but the … Continued
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50 Retractable Rods Make This the Most Customizable Coat/Hat/Key Rack Ever
There’s a chance you’ve lost days of your life searching for keys, scarves, hats, and all those odds and ends that seem to grow legs so they can crawl away to hide from you in a remote corner of your apartment. It’s nice to have a place to put them so you always know where … Continued
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This Is What iOS 6’s Passbook Will Look Like in Action
The next great iPhone software is still in beta mode right now, but we’re already excited about digitizing some of the crap in our wallets via Passbook—and for frequent travelers, it’ll be a godsend. Check out the future: The video experiment above comes from PassK.it, a company that hopes to make money helping other companies … Continued
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The Case for a 7.8-Inch iPad
I’ve been talking to some people on Twitter about the technical feasibility of Apple one day introducing a smaller and lighter iPad. The general opinion I’m seeing is that it would require a change to the dimension of the screen in points, or the touch targets would be so small that it’d be impossible to … Continued
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Manual 3D Sandcastle Printer: The Most Tedious Way to Have Fun at the Beach
Somewhere, mankind lost its way. The latest proof being that instead of relying on good old buckets and other moulds for building sandcastles, kids are now given tools like this plastic sand and water funnel which makes them painstakingly build up a sand structure layer by layer. It works not unlike the plastic 3D printers … Continued
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Transfixing Airport Installation Makes Going Through Security Actually Pleasant
Nope, it’s not a museum. The mesmerizing video above is of “Kinetic Rain,” an installation in Terminal 1 of Singapore’s Changi Airport. Created by Berlin firm ART+COM, the weather-inspired sculpture comprises two sections, each of which has 608 rain drops—tear-shaped droplets are made of lightweight aluminum covered with copper affixed to steel ropes. They dance … Continued
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From Fish Bladders to the Reservoir Tip: A History of Condom Design
It’s summer, and you’re (hopefully) going to get some game. It starts at a bar or a BBQ or your living room—wherever you go to meet a private dance-partner. You get ready to get sweaty, and then, the grab for contraception: “Honey/dude/whatsyourname, can you grab the fish bladder?” Or maybe it’s: “Got your reusable sheep … Continued
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This Darth Maul Electric Mask Is Your Weapon-Forged-By-The-Dark-Side Deal of the Day
Sometimes an item is just so much that it’s not quite enough. Today’s item is a perfect example. This is an electronic Darth Maul mask that doesn’t just look like the Sith villain from The Phantom Menace, it sounds like him, too. But if you’re going to go that far, go all the way. Get … Continued
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Don’t Push All Your Freaking Foursquare Checkins to Twitter
Do you really want all your Twitter followers to know that you’re currently at Dollar Rent-a-Car? I mean, if you do, that’s fine. But at the least, they probably don’t care and at the most they’re embarrassed for you. We’ve established that you shouldn’t arbitrarily push all your tweets to Facebook, and a similar maxim … Continued
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A Layer of Insole Gel Promises To Make This Mattress as Comfy as Your Favorite Sneakers
Riding high on its success with gel shoe inserts, Dr. Scholl’s is expanding its comfort empire with a line of Technogel sleep accessories covered in the same blue goo that you slide into your shoes—promising a comfy and cool night’s sleep. The grid of polyurethane cubes on top of this mattress not only mould to … Continued
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Don’t Eat Salad with Fat Free Dressing Says Science
If you’re using fat free dressing on your salad, you’re doing it all wrong. According to scientists, you need to eat salad with fat-based dressings to get the most out of the veggies. Having no fat in your salad actually diminishes the benefit from eating vegetables. This sounds a little crazy, right? But yes, even … Continued
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