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Archive for July 2013

What Happens When You Microwave a Highlighter

What Happens When You Microwave a Highlighter

Generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to put things in the microwave that don’t belong in there. But that doesn’t stop the curious minds of people like us from wanting to see what happens to other stuff when you jostle around its atoms in the microwave.

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SpaceX Grasshopper Reusable Rocket Knows How to Park in Reverse

SpaceX Grasshopper Reusable Rocket Knows How to Park in Reverse

We’ve already invented a (partially) reusable spacecraft. But the rockets that were used to boost NASA’s space shuttles – and other spacecraft in general – were all designed for one-time use only. That makes space travel wasteful and expensive.

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‘Like to Death’ Online Art Project Disappears When You ‘Like’ It

‘Like to Death’ Online Art Project Disappears When You ‘Like’ It

When you ‘like’ something on Facebook, it stays on your feed longer and sometimes appears on the news feeds of other people in your network. By ‘liking’ something, you make it stay visible for a longer period of time as it circulates on social networks.

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‘Bridge of Life’ Reminds People Life Gets Better to Prevent Suicides

‘Bridge of Life’ Reminds People Life Gets Better to Prevent Suicides

When something particularly bad or painful happens, some people just withdraw and never come out of their cocoons. They can recover slowly or they can get worse and one day decide that they want nothing more than to end it all.

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Vinylize Turns Old Records into Groovy Glasses

Vinylize Turns Old Records into Groovy Glasses

People love to recycle old vinyl records into new things. Vinylize makes hipster eyewear out of old records. So how do they make glasses from old records?

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Put Your Kids to Work as Junior Massage Therapists with These Playmat T-Shirts

Put Your Kids to Work as Junior Massage Therapists with These Playmat T-Shirts

Playtime doesn’t have to be so tiring for parents. I mean, you already spend most of your time at home picking up after the kids, feeding them, doing their laundry, and helping them with schoolwork. So it’s only fair that playtime is easy on you, the parent, while still being fun and hopefully education for your child.

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World’s Largest Headphones: Sound of the Colossus

World’s Largest Headphones: Sound of the Colossus

When you have the world’s largest headphones, you don’t put them on your head. You sit between the earcups and let the sound assault you. These monstrous headphones were created by Dallyn Rule for the recent Mini Maker Faire in Vancouver, B.C.

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When I Said I Needed a Car Charger for My Phone, This Isn’t What I Had in Mind

When I Said I Needed a Car Charger for My Phone, This Isn’t What I Had in Mind

External batteries are great to keep our mobile devices juiced up, but I’ve never seen one in a car form factor before. Now we have one. Japan Trust Technology (JTT) has introduced the GT5200 Coupe with a built-in lithium-ion battery that will charge your tablets and phones that are equipped with a microUSB port.

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Laser Minigun: Team Fortress 2: Blood Dragon

Laser Minigun: Team Fortress 2: Blood Dragon

Patrick Priebe is no stranger to laser–based prop weapons, and Wicked Lasers is no stranger to borderline illegal lasers. Put the two together and this is what you get: a minigun replica that fires lasers instead of bullets.

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The Force is Strong with This Star Wars Dress Made from Bedsheets

The Force is Strong with This Star Wars Dress Made from Bedsheets

We’ve seen some fun Star Wars dresses, but this is one of my favorite yet. It looks so awesome because it is made from vintage Star Wars bedsheets. That material makes this dress authentically vintage, while being a totally fashionable dress you could wear out on the town.

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Dinosaur Serving Dish: Even If He Had Longer Arms, It Wouldn’t Help

Dinosaur Serving Dish: Even If He Had Longer Arms, It Wouldn’t Help

Ok, just four words are required to describe this object: BEST. SERVING. DISH. EVER.

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Oscilloscope Turned into an Awesome Clock

Oscilloscope Turned into an Awesome Clock

Vintage oscilloscopes are amazing devices. It turns out that they make great clocks too. It was around 1960, when Aaron’s grandfather purchased an Heathkit OR-1 oscilloscope, which he passed down in his family in excellent condition.

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DIY Quadcopter Kit: Drone It Yourself

DIY Quadcopter Kit: Drone It Yourself

Drones like Parrot’s smart quadcopters are slowly becoming popular toys. While they’re not dirt cheap, they’re very stable, easy to pilot and some of them even have cameras or can be fitted with one. But what if you could turn anything into a drone?

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Mealku Lets You Share Your Home-Cooked Meals with the World

Mealku Lets You Share Your Home-Cooked Meals with the World

Think you’ve got what it takes to be (insert your country of origin here)’s top chef? You might not have your own cooking show or the chance to join some cooking competition, but you can serve people with your signature dishes and earn points (and even cash) while you’re at it.

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These ‘Fur’ Coats Are Actually Made Using Men’s Chest Hair. Yuck.

These ‘Fur’ Coats Are Actually Made Using Men’s Chest Hair. Yuck.

I don’t care much for people who wear fur because I think there are many different and much more humane ways to keep warm when the weather’s being particularly unforgiving. I have no such objections to this ‘fur’ coat commissioned by dairy company Arla, because the ‘fur’ part actually stops at its name.

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Pokémon Generations: Learn to Take a Hint, Game Freak

Pokémon Generations: Learn to Take a Hint, Game Freak

A lot of gamers have been begging Nintendo and developer Game Freak for a 3D, open world and real-time version of the money-printing Pokémon series. The upcoming Pokémon X/Y might meet the first two requests, but not the last one.

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