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Starry Planet Wall Art Won’t Cost You an Arm and an Ear

I have always liked Van Gogh’s 1889 painting “The Starry Night“. There aren’t many classic paintings of nightscapes, and anyone who loves to look at the stars will like what ThinkGeek has cooked up. It’s called “Starry Planet,” and it has the look and feel of the Van Gogh masterpiece,…

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Constellation Lamp is Perfect for Indoor Astronomers

Do you like stars and constellations, but don’t like being outside at night? Or do you just live in the city, where light pollution makes it impossible to see them? Either way, you need this lamp, which is printed with patterns of well-known constellations. When you turn on the lamp,…

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How Star Trails Look from the ISS

If you’re in a dark enough place, and are patient enough to shoot lots of long exposure photos, you can capture some impressive star trail photography right here on Earth. The result are images which basically show the movement of the Earth relative to the stars around us. During expeditions…

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Mail Your Friends the Universe in an Envelope

My God, it’s full of stars! Yes it is. These star-filled envelopes will let you send an entire galaxy to your friends and loved ones. All they have to do is pour the contents out and look inside. As long as your friend doesn’t tear it to shreds, they will…

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This Inflatable Night Sky Looks Awesome

A London event called “Light Night” is all about bringing together dreamers, artists and engineers to build installations based which involve light. That’s always a recipe for awesomeness, but this year one team kicked things up a notch, by putting people among the stars. This cool project by London design…

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Heat Changing Constellation Mug is for Sleepy Star Gazers

Growing up, my uncle had this collection of glasses that had sexy women on them. When you put cold liquids into them, the clothes disappeared on the glasses leaving the ladies in their undies. I thought those were the greatest glasses ever made. ThinkGeek has something sort of the same,…

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The Cosmos Bed: My God, It’s Full of Stars

Right now the only way you can truly sleep among the stars is to suit up in a spacesuit and have somebody push you out into the black and that ain’t cool. The next best thing is to lie in a sleeping bag in the darkened countryside and stare up,…

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Spray-on Starpath Makes Roads Glow Like the Starry Night Sky at Night

No, you’re not dreaming. The pavement is actually twinkling like the stars in the sky, and it’s all thanks to Starpath. It’s a spray-on paint that transforms regular pathways into glow-in-the-dark ones.…

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Opal ADAM Gets LED Starlight Sky Option: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car

GM-owned automotive manufacturer Opel hasn’t sold cars in the United States in decades. However, in Europe, Opel has been selling vehicles continuously for quite a long time. One of the vehicles that Opel offers that I’ve never heard of is the subcompact Opel ADAM. Today, word of an unusual new…

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Cassiopeia Concept Watch: Put the Stars on Your Wrist

Constellations are pretty awesome to look at, that is if you’re not living in a big city. Once you get out of urban areas, you can see plenty of them in the clear night sky. This new concept watch attempts to put a constellation on your wrist, so you can…

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Starfield Kinect Swing Probably Would Make You Pretty Dizzy

The Microsoft Kinect has been used for all sorts of interesting interactive experiments and artworks since it first came on the scene. It’s clear that these alternative uses for the motion sensing technology are often more compelling than the games themselves. This particular Kinect hack uses the gadget to put…

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Stellarwindow Turns Tablet Pcs Into a Virtual Planetarium

This intriguing hardware/software combo from Japan’s Fairy Devices lets you turn a tablet PC into a veritable “window to the stars”. As you hold your PC up and move it around, the highly-sensitive motion-sensor USB module sends position data to the StellarWindow’s planetarium software, adjusting the viewport to match the…

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Do a Little Stargazing With Your Nintendo Ds

Between the inventive homebrew community and all the “practical” software titles available at retail, you can do just about anything with a Nintendo DS these days, and in March, you’ll even be able to use your DS as an interactive star chart. Provided you can read Japanese, of course. The…

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Turn Your Walls Into a Starfield

Sick of the same four white walls? This new projection gadget might just help you make that room a little less drab. The Laser Stars Projector will take a plain white room and turn it into a twinkling, ever changing starfield (assuming you turn off the lights.) The 10-inch tall…

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Starry Planet Wall Art Won’t Cost You an Arm and an Ear

Constellation Lamp is Perfect for Indoor Astronomers

How Star Trails Look from the ISS

Mail Your Friends the Universe in an Envelope

This Inflatable Night Sky Looks Awesome

Heat Changing Constellation Mug is for Sleepy Star Gazers

The Cosmos Bed: My God, It’s Full of Stars

Spray-on Starpath Makes Roads Glow Like the Starry Night Sky at Night

Opal ADAM Gets LED Starlight Sky Option: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car

Cassiopeia Concept Watch: Put the Stars on Your Wrist

Starfield Kinect Swing Probably Would Make You Pretty Dizzy

Stellarwindow Turns Tablet Pcs Into a Virtual Planetarium

Do a Little Stargazing With Your Nintendo Ds

Turn Your Walls Into a Starfield

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