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alien sonogram t-shirt: sigourney shoulda had one

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Know someone who’s gonna have a baby? Here’s a fun t-shirt for moms-to-be with a fondness for sci-fi.

Designed by Ruby Red Design, this “Who’s the Daddy?” Alien maternity t-shirt ($26 USD) features a sonogram image of an embryonic H.R. Giger creature growing inside your body.

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November 16th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun weird science

gaming in space (almost, really)

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NASA wants to put you in space–sort of–and they’re willing to build an MMO to prove it. With Astronaut: Mars, Moon and Beyond, the folks behind the American space program hope to produce a game that will be to space what America’s Army was to, uh… American’s actual Army.

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November 16th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: video games weird science

gaon street light/wastebasket turns trash into flash

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Designed by Haneum Lee, the Gaon street light/wastebasket concept composts biodegradable waste and uses the methane by-product to power its light, saving energy and eliminating waste while lighting the streets. It’s a bright idea – or is it?

I like how one simple gadget can help solve a couple of environmental issues, but I’m not…

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November 13th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: future tech strange + wonderful weird science

forget p2p, here’s b2b: brain-to-brain communication

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We can now add telepathy to the list of things that’s possible thanks to the Internet. Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have demonstrated that it is possible to transmit thoughts from one person’s brain to another person’s brain using nothing but pieces of tape, a couple of EEG amplifiers, some special…

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October 26th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing future tech strange + wonderful technology weird science

snackbot snack-delivering robot: i want one now.

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I’ve always wanted a robotic butler. You know, like the personal service ‘bots in Woody Allen’s Sleeper. Except without the sexual harassment part. Turns out that a team of industrious scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have already built one. And this one delivers snacks! Sweet!

CMU’s Snackbot is a roving wheeled ‘bot who’s…

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October 18th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: future tech robots strange + wonderful technology weird science

ric-rolled: mascots to soon be replaced with robots

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If you thought that the derelicts they have walking around city streets donning smelly mascot costumes and trying to hand you flyers for hot dogs and prepaid cell phone cards weren’t creepy enough, have I got something for you! Pretty soon, those guys will be replaced by robots.

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September 27th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: robots strange + wonderful technology weird science

inventor: we can all be cyborgs 20 years from now. california governor: been there, done that.

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In a recent article in The Sun, famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil makes a lot of bold claims about our future, saying that by 2029 humans will be able to halt and even reverse the effects of aging. and then we’ll live forever, with the help of Hideo Kojima’s favorite plot device: nanomachines. Kurzweil,…

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September 25th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: future tech robots strange + wonderful technology weird science

mouseneto: variable gravity simulator successfully levitates mice

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Scientists working for NASA have built a “variable gravity simulator” powerful enough to levitate drops of water up to 2 inches wide, and even young mice. The device is made of a “superconducting magnet that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the water inside living animals.” I don’t know how the magnet can levitate…

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September 11th, 2009 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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dog swallows 1,000 magnets – erases every floppy and vhs tape in the house

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The United Press International continues to build on their 100 years of journalistic excellence with their coverage of an Australian woman and her cattle dog. Polly – the dog – recently underwent emergency surgery to remove 1,000 magnets from her tummy. Owner Cathy James said that Polly swallowed the magnets in her – the owner’s…

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September 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: strange + wonderful weird science

satanvision red led tv: the devil made him do it

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What might television look like in hell? Maybe a bit like this.

This incredibly lo-fi SatanVision television set was designed by David Forbes. It’s outputs of an unbelievably crappy 128×96 resolution image, and all of the pixels are red. Here it is playing the only video game they have in the underworld, Pong. Oh, and…

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August 29th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods technology video weird science

art math: steampunk technology + bones = “osteomechanics”

Ron Bell has been a cinematographer for 25 years, but in his spare time he likes to play with bones. And copper. And aluminum. And glass. What does he do with all these components? Why, he constructs “osteomechanic” sculptures, of course!
If I had a fancy office to call my own, complete with a ginormous…

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August 25th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: chris h.

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genetically engineered pigs could be harvested for human organ transplants – still no spiderpig

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Sorry Homer. But what’s important is that a group of Korean scientists have successfully produced a genetically engineered pig whose organs could be compatible with the human body. Chung Nam University’s Jin Dong-il and local bio-tech firm Mgen claim that their cloned piglet contains a protein called fas ligand (FasL), which helps regulate our immune…

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August 14th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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