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Best Star Wars Lego Diorama Ever Even Plays the Theme Music
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How does Germany celebrate the release of The Phantom Menace in 3D? With the world’s most awesome Star Wars diorama of course. Rene Hoffmeister and Lorenz Lnggrtnr built this super complex diorama featuring sets from Star Wars… completely built out of LEGO. |
April 16th, 2012
Ultrasone Signature PRO Headphones: Big Sound, Big Money
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Every time I upgrade my headphones, I rediscover parts of my large music collection. Since I can’t get any big speakers because of where I live, I’ve resigned myself to exploring the realm of audiophile headphones. From Sennheiser to Grado, there are a handful of names in that area, including… |
January 27th, 2012
Radioactive Ghost Suit Installation: No, the Aliens Have Not Arrived
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No, these aren’t aliens or anything like that, but this art installation by Luzinterruptus is pretty spooky. The anonymous artist group put together this haunting installation for the Hamburg Dockville Festival. It’s supposed to remind us of the dangers of nuclear power.… |
September 5th, 2011
Breakfast-Making Robots: Short Circuit Cooks
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If you’re like me, you’d love some robot to prepare your breakfast, kind of like those crazy machines from Back to the Future…. While today’s robots are certainly smarter than Doc Brown’s jury-rigged breakfast maker, you might wonder how good the robot breakfast will be. From what I can |
June 13th, 2011
Diminished Reality: Now You See It and You Also Don’T
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A couple of students at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany are developing the video equivalent of the Content-Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5. In other words, their software can make objects invisible, and it does this in real-time.… |
October 13th, 2010
Myon Humanoid Robot Looks Cute, but Only has One Eyeball
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It looks like another company is working on a cute humanoid robot. This time, the ‘bot comes from Germany, and he’s some kind of walking cyclops. The Myon robot is about 50 inches tall and weighs 33lbs. Myon is an interesting robot because of a few different things. He’s got… |
June 23rd, 2010
Mercedez-Benz Creates Artificial Tornado
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This is one thing that you’ve definitely got to see. In Germany, in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, they can repurpose the building’s internal ventilation system to create an artificial tornado – indoors! This twister takes about 7 minutes to form and is powered by 144 jets and 28 tons… |
April 9th, 2010
The Airplane Hangar Gets Extremely Literal
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I always wondered why they called it an airplane hangar. This clever wall hook system is definitely a clever play on the airplane hang(e)r concept. Created by Kolja Clemens of Germany’s MOM, these cool aluminum airplanes are just the right size and shape for hanging up your leather bomber jacket… |
February 24th, 2010
Incense Smoking Robots: Huh, Wha?
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Normally, if I told you your robot was smoking, you’d have to send it in to a technician to have it looked at. I’m not quite sure why anyone came up with this idea, but they did. This little robot keeps your room nice and smelly, thanks to a incense… |
February 5th, 2010
The Xphone Will Destroy the iPhone… if It was a Real Product
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We’ve yet to see a gadget really… compete against the iPhone, to the extent that subscribers in the U.S. are willing to endure the sometimes horrible service of AT&T so that they can keep using Apple’s revolutionary product. If you were a designer or engineer and you were asked to |
December 9th, 2009
