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R U A Lonely Freelancer? Try Renting A Desk In A Cool Office Space
Feb 28, 8:20PM
The life of a freelancer or remote employee is characterized by a few day-to-day truths: a commute that doesn't necessarily involve leaving the bed, pajamas as acceptable daywear, and stretches—kind of long to very long—with no IRL human interaction. Leaving the house is healthy—but where to go?
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These Ethereal Night Scenes Are Lit From Above By a Drone
Feb 28, 8:00PM
If you think every possible use for drones has been thoroughly exhausted, you're wrong. This clever photographer figured out that the hovering crafts would be perfect for lighting his mysterious scenes from the sky.
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Tor Is Developing an Anonymous Instant Messaging Service
Feb 28, 7:44PM
Now that we know the NSA is even spying on instant messaging services, the denizens of the deep web need a new way to chat anonymously. Of course, Tor comes to the rescue.
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Tackle This 3D-Printed Spherical Rubik's Cube If You Hate Yourself
Feb 28, 7:20PM
If you've solved a Rubik's Cube so many times that it no longer offers you a challenge, maybe it's time to try a new shape? The Marusenko Sphere puts 54 spinning and sliding pieces into a globe-shaped puzzle that comes in five different levels of difficulty.
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Why This Red Smudge Is the Most Valuable Stamp in the World
Feb 28, 7:00PM
It may be hard to believe, but that faded bit of paper you see above is actually the most sought-after and revered stamp in the world. Or at least, it will be this June, which is when it's poised to pull in a whopping $10-20 million at auction—the most money ever spent a dirty piece of paper.
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Smart Outlet Switches, AC Router for $100, Lord of the Rings [Deals]
Feb 28, 6:45PM
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Having a WeMo Switch is one thing, but combining it with a motion sensor unlocks a whole new range of possibilities and IFTTT recipes. Newegg has the Switch + Motion combo pack today for just $57, which is $3 less than the previous lowest price we've seen. If your needs are simpler, Monoprice makes their own version of the WeMo switch, and it's on sale for just $26. It lacks Wi-Fi and IFTTT integration, but it might be all you need.
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The Best Squirrel Feeder Is a Horse-Head Squirrel Feeder
Feb 28, 6:34PM
It's a goddamn beautiful thing when internet memes and nature collide into one glorious split-screen of a squirrel eating out of a Horse Head feeder. It just doesn't get much better than this, people.
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New Gesture-Recognition Tech Lets You Control Your Phone in Your Pocket
Feb 28, 6:00PM
Wouldn't it be cool if you could skip to the next track without taking your phone out of your pocket—or without touching anything at all? Or if you could adjust the thermostat with the flick of a wrist? You may soon be able to thanks to new gesture-recognition technology. It doesn't even require batteries!
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Physicist Proposes 1,000-Foot Anti-Tornado Walls Across the Midwest
Feb 28, 5:40PM
When it comes to radical mega-infrastructure projects, we can only dream—but we dream big. Here is one such staggering proposal to build miles and miles of 1,000-foot tall super-walls that will once and forever save Tornado Alley from its eponymous natural disaster.
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App-Connected Hypercar Is a 280 MPH Smartphone Accessory
Feb 28, 5:36PM
The race to make the world's fastest production car has turned into an all-out war, and as our pals at Jalopnik report , the viciously bonkers gearheads at Koenigsegg are readying a jaw-dropping juggernaut. It's got all the mind-blowing stuff you'd expect: well over one thousand horsepower, a theoretical top speed of 280 MPH, carbon fiber everywhere. But huge power and exotic materials are expected in this strata of supercars. It's the technology that puts Koenigsegg on another planet.
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The Exosuit: What Tony Stark Would Wear Underwater
Feb 28, 5:20PM
Meet the Exosuit. It's a $600,000 atmospheric diving suit capable of taking a human 1,000 feet underwater at surface pressure, and it's the first of its kind. If you have dramatic music handy, you should go ahead and play it, because this thing is insane.
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What Comcast Really Thinks About You (Hint: They Don't Give a F-ck)
Feb 28, 5:11PM
Have you been frantically petitioning for signatures against the Comcast-Time Warner merger ? Do you tweet profanities at @TWCHelp and @ComcastCares in the hopes that someone will see your words and feel even the slightest pangs of regret? You're wasting your life! Because Comcast doesn't give a fuck.
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This Guy Had a TV In His Taxi Before Most People Had One At Home
Feb 28, 4:50PM
Less than 1 percent of American households had a TV set in 1948. But if you were lucky enough to hail a special cab in Chicago during the summer of '48, you got a brief taste of America's television-obsessed future.
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More Bad News From Mt.Gox: All Your Bitcoin Money Is Gone
Feb 28, 4:50PM
The Mt.Gox saga just gets sadder and sadder. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy, but Mt.Gox CEO Mike Karpele went on Japanese TV a few minutes ago and admitted that everybody's money is gone. Gone, gone, gone.
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Nissan's Smart Rearview Mirror Isn't Blinded By Passengers or Cargo
Feb 28, 4:46PM
Have you ever been hesitant to over-pack a vehicle with luggage or passengers because it would obscure the sightline for your rearview mirror? Nissan's Smart rearview mirror solves that problem by alternately displaying a live video feed from a camera mounted on the back of the vehicle.
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Israel Is Putting Frickin' Lasers on Its Commercial Airliners
Feb 28, 4:40PM
It's not just IDF forces and Israeli settlements that come under rocket fire; militant groups have been known to take pot shots at commercial airlines as well—such as when a pair of SAMs narrowly missed an Israeli charter shortly after it took off from a Mombasa, Kenya airfield, in 2002. To protect vulnerable aircraft from future attacks, Israel has developed this belly-mounted laser shield for commercial jets.
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Cool thingamajig lets you have your books flying around your home
Feb 28, 4:32PM
This Harry Potterish floating book thingamajig designed by Kiril Gitman lets you display your favorite volumes flying around your living room. Useless awesomeness.
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Watch Wind-up Toys and Walkmen Create Intricate Mechanical Drawings
Feb 28, 4:20PM
Art can happen where you least expect it, which is definitely the case with the work of Echo Yang, who uses small toys and everyday electronics to create detailed drawings.
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Venezuelan anti-government protesters are cobbling together home-brew gas masks from just about anyt
Feb 28, 4:17PM
Venezuelan anti-government protesters are cobbling together home-brew gas masks from just about anything they can find—including empty water bottles packed with cloth, stuffed into larger water bottles—to defend against tear gas attacks from their nation's riot police as clashes between the two sides grow more violent by the day. Image: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd
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Why Engines Are Commonly Measured in Horsepower
Feb 28, 4:00PM
We owe this unit of engine power measurement to Scottish engineer James Watt.
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The Jim Henson Creature Shop Highlight Reel Reinforces Our Muppet Love
Feb 28, 3:40PM
The work done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop doesn't only just show up on Sesame Street and in the latest batch of Muppet movies. Any time you see a convincing looking creature in a commercial that wasn't brought to life through CG, odds are the Creature Shop had a hand in its creation.
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Auto-Pause When You Fall Asleep Is the Best Netflix Hack
Feb 28, 3:34PM
Falling asleep while watching Netflix is the worst. Invariably you miss all the meat of whatever you're watching, and snap awake to the closing credits (or your morning alarm). Ugh. But a bunch of Netflix engineers have a (theoretical) solution: a Fitbit hack that pauses your stream when the wearable senses you've fallen asleep.
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The Promising (But Problematic) Future of Ultra-Fast Internet
Feb 28, 3:00PM
While you weren't looking, the internet got super fast. I'm not talking Google Fiber fast. I'm talking Star Trek fast. Today, it's not just possible to download a movie in seconds. New technology makes it easy to download dozens of movies in fractions of a second. Fast is almost too slow a word to describe such speed.
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A Clip That Turns Any Stack of Paper Into a Homemade Notebook
Feb 28, 2:40PM
Tired of waiting for Field Notes to release a notebook in your favorite color? Take matters into your own hands with this simple $9 Eco Clip. All you need is a stack of letter or legal-sized paper and enough strength to fold it in half. Then you just slide the Eco Clip down onto the edge and bam—instant notebook.
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Stark, Beautiful Photos of an Abandoned Greek Airport
Feb 28, 2:23PM
Ellinikon International Airport, located in Athens, Greece, was shut down in 2001. The site has been left partially intact while development plans take place, and photographer Alexandros Lambrovassilis has been revisiting the site for years to document its remains.
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