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Sony Made a Volcano Spew 8 Million Flowers For This Stunning 4K Ad

Nov 01, 2:21PM

If there's one thing Sony knows how to do, it's sell its technology with cool imagery. In past commercials the company has blasted buildings with paint, sent millions of rubber balls bouncing down a street, and even unleashed a small army of Play-Doh bunnies. But this time around, Sony's dumping eight million flowers—three-and-a-half tons worth of petals—into a volcano and onto a small town to sell its 4K TVs in the UK.

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Take $20 Off The iPad Air On Day One

Nov 01, 2:04PM

Take $20 Off The iPad Air On Day One

If you're going to pick up Apple's latest, greatest, thinnest tablet, you may as well save 20 bucks in the process. Grab it from Walmart right now with free shipping for $479. [Walmart]

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These Smart Glasses Could Help the Blind to See

Nov 01, 1:53PM

These Smart Glasses Could Help the Blind to See

These smart glasses could help bring sight to thousands of blind people, by converting visual information into images that can actually be seen by the visually impaired.

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Deadspin Idaho Sportscaster Does Entire Segment As Ron Burgundy | Jezebel It's That Time of Year Whe

Nov 01, 1:50PM

Deadspin Idaho Sportscaster Does Entire Segment As Ron Burgundy | Jezebel It's That Time of Year When Celebrities Dress Up As Other Celebrities | Kotaku Here's What a Thousand Zombies Attacking Tokyo Looks Like | Lifehacker The Best Projects and Gear to Set Up Your Secret Lair

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Amazon's new Kindle First lets Kindle device or app users buy one of four "Editors' Pick" e-books a

Nov 01, 1:47PM

Amazon's new Kindle First lets Kindle device or app users buy one of four "Editors' Pick" e-books a month ahead of official release for $2 — or free, for Prime member. [Amazon Business Wire via The Verge]

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An Awesome Flexible Display That Wraps Around the Edges of Your Phone

Nov 01, 1:15PM

As if we needed any further convincing of the wonderful potential of flexible displays, a Japanese company called SEL has developed a high-resolution screen that can be rolled to a tight four-millimeter radius, allowing it to wrap around the edge of a smartphone while still working.

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The 12 Best Airline Safety Videos, Reviewed

Nov 01, 1:00PM

The 12 Best Airline Safety Videos, Reviewed

Virgin America, the airline that invented the sassy in-flight safety video, has rolled out a brand new sassy in-flight safety video: A live-action musical number. It's still heads and shoulders above most airlines, but is it the best?

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3D Gesture Recognition Might Actually Make Smartwatches Useful

Nov 01, 12:57PM

3D Gesture Recognition Might Actually Make Smartwatches Useful

If idea of fiddling around with a tiny, wrist-mounted touchscreen is enough to make you want to give up on smartwatches before they even really arrive, then whoa. This 3D gesture-recognition might actually make these things useful.

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Blowing Up a Building In Slo-Mo Is a Great Way To Start the Month

Nov 01, 12:35PM

Is there a better way to ring in November than watching a controlled explosion? Sure there is, if said explosion was captured by a Phantom Flex high-speed camera at 2,500 fps. The Slow Mo Guys are back and after playing around with a couple of grenades (please don't try that at home) they set their sites—or viewfinder—on their largest explosion yet.

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This Negative Space Chess Set Is Beautifully Simplistic

Nov 01, 12:05PM

This Negative Space Chess Set Is Beautifully Simplistic

Chess sets can often be overly fussy, with intricate or unusual pieces distracting from the game at hand. Not so this gorgeous negative space chess set, though, with each piece represented by the void drilled into a transparent acrylic block.

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iPad Air Teardown: Glorious Guts, But So Much Glue

Nov 01, 11:12AM

iPad Air Teardown: Glorious Guts, But So Much Glue

We know it's light, fast and beautiful already, but we still haven't seen inside Apple's new iPad Air. Fortunately, iFixit has had the good grace to rip the thing apart.

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Exclusive: All the cool official minifigs from The Lego Movie

Nov 01, 11:00AM

Exclusive: All the cool official minifigs from The Lego Movie

It had to happen, people: The Lego Movie is coming with its own set of never-before-seen minifigs. It includes William Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, which are two of my favorite minifigs in history already. These, like the rest of these minifig series, will become collector items.

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The Moon May Have Been Made of 'Magma Mush' For Millions of Years

Nov 01, 10:41AM

The Moon May Have Been Made of 'Magma Mush' For Millions of Years

We're used to thinking of the moon as a cold and unassuming lump of rock—but new research suggests that it could have been made of a strange magma mush for hundreds of millions of years before it solidified into the object we now see every night.

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The Math of The Simpsons: Pi, Algorithms and Counting on 8 Fingers

Nov 01, 9:49AM

You might not have realized it, but The Simpsons is crammed with math. In this video, Simon Singh explains how Pi and algorithms crop up in the show—and why the characters work in a decimal world, despite only having eight fingers.

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Report: Google's Barge Will Be an Invite-Only Google X Showroom

Nov 01, 9:08AM

Report: Google's Barge Will Be an Invite-Only Google X ShowroomCBS is reporting that Google's barge will "feature luxury showrooms and a party deck" for the search giant to show off projects coming out of Google X to special, invite-only clients.

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You Can Go Buy an iPad Air Right Now

Nov 01, 8:20AM

You Can Go Buy an iPad Air Right Now

You can go buy the iPad Air right now . You can either order Apple's new, thinner 9.7-inch tablet from the online Apple Store or buy it directly from a bricks-and-mortar retailer from at 8AM local time, wherever you are.

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Crazy Man Puts Computer Inside Arm (Without Help From Doctors)

Nov 01, 5:30AM

Crazy Man Puts Computer Inside Arm (Without Help From Doctors)

German Tim Cannon is a "biohacker". That unsightly bulge on his arm there is where he stuck a giant computer chip beneath his skin, which transmits his biometric data to Android devices. Which will be interesting data and all but oh God just look at those stitches.

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Taiwan's New Special Forces Uniforms Are Wearable Nightmare Fuel

Nov 01, 4:40AM

Taiwan's New Special Forces Uniforms Are Wearable Nightmare Fuel

Like the Samurai's mempo, the uniforms of many of today's Special Forces units play dual roles. Not only do they protect the wearer's face and conceal his identity, they terrify the pants off of the enemy. Take the newly unveiled uniforms of Taiwan's Special Forces for example. They look like something out of Army of Two.

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These incredible sky lights look like alien spaceships coming to Earth

Nov 01, 4:37AM

These incredible sky lights look like alien spaceships coming to Earth

It looks like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it's real—an awesome view of one of the weirdest sky phenomena you can watch from Earth, witnessed at the Levi ski resort, in the Finnish lapland.

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Here's what it's like to have a bomb dropped right next to you

Nov 01, 4:02AM

If you blink, you're gonna miss it. Hell, even if you're looking right at it, you still might not see it. But you'll definitely feel it. The Aviationist found a video of a Syrian fighter bomber flying overhead and caught it dropping a bomb pretty much right on top of the cameraman. The plane sends flares out at first but then you see a white streak heading straight towards the ground and before you know it, the camera gets smashed sideways. Scary.

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TWTIT: Regress (Dichotomy (Freccia))

Nov 01, 4:00AM

What started out as a bit of cover art for German artist Novoline has taken on a life of its own and mutated into this ominous digital blob. You can almost feel it pulsating through the screen and worming its way into the depths of your psyche.

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Carl Sagan's Jack-o'-lantern is also made of starstuff

Nov 01, 3:14AM

Carl Sagan's Jack-o'-lantern is also made of starstuff

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff," said Dr. Sagan. Pumpkin pies too.

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The Chinese government is really really bad at Photoshop

Nov 01, 2:14AM

The Chinese government is really really bad at Photoshop

What was supposed to be a nice, heartwarming picture of four Chinese government officials visiting an elderly woman in a sign of respect and caring for the people and giving back and all that ended up being another Photoshop nightmare for China where three giant men plus a floating disappearing half man creepily hover over a miniature-sized old woman. Man, someone needs to teach China how to use Photoshop.

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Creature Feature: The Original Frankenstein Text Is Now Readable Online

Nov 01, 1:13AM

Creature Feature: The Original Frankenstein Text Is Now Readable Online

In the pantheon of classic horror, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ranks as one of the first, and most memorable, monster tales ever told. And while it's easy enough to pick up a new copy of the spine-tingling 1818 narrative from pretty much any bookstore, it's now possible to pore over the original, hand-penned manuscript online.

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Watch 75 years of title sequences from 234 different animated movies

Nov 01, 12:39AM

Irina Neustroeva made this incredible video that mashes up 75 years of opening title sequence for animated movies. There's 234 films here including all your favorites like Toy Story, The Lion King, Shrek but also a lot of lesser known flicks and completely forgotten animated movies too.

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