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These Gorgeous Screenprints Showcase a City's Most Famous Structures

Mar 10, 9:00PM

These Gorgeous Screenprints Showcase a City's Most Famous Structures

As part of a project called "Shapes of Cities," London-based designer Yoni Alter takes a handful of iconic buildings from various metropolitan areas and silhouettes their shapes in a range of colors, overlapping the forms to create a single abstracted, impossible skyline.

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Scientists Hacked a Blu-Ray Player to Test for Salmonella

Mar 10, 8:40PM

Scientists Hacked a Blu-Ray Player to Test for Salmonella

As much of the world migrates its movie needs from optical disks to hard drives, a team of chemists from Spain found a new use for a regular old Blu-Ray player. They turned it into a cheap but functional medical device that could help the third world.

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Ride an Outdoor Elevator to a Walkway in the Sky

Mar 10, 8:20PM

Ride an Outdoor Elevator to a Walkway in the Sky

If you've ever walked around in a hilly city, you've probably done your share of avoiding uphill paths. Hills have a way of carving dividing lines into a city. In Pamplona, Spain, two neighborhoods separated by elevation could be connected by this striking new outdoor elevator.

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Americans Are Riding Public Transit In Record-Breaking Numbers

Mar 10, 7:40PM

Americans Are Riding Public Transit In Record-Breaking Numbers

Visit any major U.S. city and you'll likely see the anecdotal evidence that use of public transit is steadily growing in popularity. Last year, however, Americans reached an important milestone: according to a new study by the American Public Transit Association, U.S. residents took almost 10.7 billion trips on transit, the highest number since 1956.

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The World's Thinnest LED Is Only 3 Atoms Thick

Mar 10, 7:20PM

The World's Thinnest LED Is Only 3 Atoms Thick

LEDs have come a long ways. From the early 70s when a bulky LED watch cost thousands of dollars to LG's announcement last month that it had created an OLED TV as thin as a magazine, these glowing little bits of magic have become wonderfully cheap and impossibly small. But guess what: they're about to get much smaller.

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An LED-Covered Drone Traced This Neon Light-Graffiti Through the Sky

Mar 10, 7:00PM

An LED-Covered Drone Traced This Neon Light-Graffiti Through the Sky

Light painting is awesome, whether you use your own two hands and a LED glowstick , or leave it up to a roomba-like robot . But the folks at the production studio Fiction decided to take it up a notch by bring a makeshift UFO into the mix.

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Silently Celebrate Typewriters With This Illustrated Army of Classics

Mar 10, 6:40PM

Silently Celebrate Typewriters With This Illustrated Army of Classics

There's no denying that typerwriters were (and are!) fantastically complex and beautiful pieces of machinery. They're also noisy, expensive, and a pain to use. With Pop Chart's Visual Compendium of Typewriters though, you can have the best of both worlds: antique art and a backspace key.

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How cauterizing a wound works and why you should never try it

Mar 10, 6:27PM

How cauterizing a wound works and why you should never try it

We've seen countless action movies in which daring heroes get their gaping wounds sealed with white hot metal, but we rarely get a peek at what happens after the fact. This video from The Medicine Journal explains how it really works.

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New Interactive Map Explores State of U.S. Solar Power

Mar 10, 6:20PM

New Interactive Map Explores State of U.S. Solar Power

The Center for Land Use Interpretation, in Culver City, Los Angeles, opened a new exhibition on Friday exploring the contemporary state of solar power in the United States. The show includes extensive photographs of all existing solar power plants in the U.S. southwest, many of which were taken "from the air, using aircraft and remote control camera platforms." A handy interactive map of U.S. solar power accompanies the show.

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This Stunning Model of Manhattan Is Carved In Solid Marble

Mar 10, 6:01PM

This Stunning Model of Manhattan Is Carved In Solid Marble

Yutaka Sone's Little Manhattan is a solid marble model of Manhattan, breathtaking in its detail. Sploid's Jesus Diaz got to see the mythical piece in person this weekend—click through for a fantastic video.

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Anker External Charger, Make Your Speakers Wireless, Titanfall [Deals]

Mar 10, 5:45PM

Anker External Charger, Make Your Speakers Wireless, Titanfall [Deals]

We love all of Anker's external chargers, but the Anker Astro3 is pretty unique in offering three USB ports on a relatively compact 12,000mAh frame, and today you can pick one up for just $40.

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What is True Detective really about?

Mar 10, 5:40PM

What is True Detective really about? Was Stonehenge originally built as a musical instrument? What does springtime on Mars look like? What if light were a drug? Here are some answers is this week's landscapes reads!

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A Nuclear Bunker With Its Own Hospital and BBC Studio Can Be Yours

Mar 10, 5:20PM

A Nuclear Bunker With Its Own Hospital and BBC Studio Can Be Yours

Nuclear bunkers have fallen out of fashion in recent years, but that doesn't mean you can't transform one into a delightful bed and breakfast. This bunker in Scotland is currently up for sale and even includes a fascinating history: It's situated on a former POW camp.

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This Town's Hilltop Mirrors Light It Up With Second-Hand Sunshine

Mar 10, 5:20PM

This Town's Hilltop Mirrors Light It Up With Second-Hand Sunshine

Waking up on a dark winter morning is never fun. But imagine if the sun didn't come up at all. Rjukan, Norway—which is cast into shadow for five months a year—has found a solution. The town is finishing its first winter using a system of mirrors to create an oasis of sunlight during its perpetually dark winter months.

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Awesome Decals Turn Your Toilet Bowl Into a Deadly Sarlacc Pit

Mar 10, 5:20PM

Awesome Decals Turn Your Toilet Bowl Into a Deadly Sarlacc Pit

Let's face it: After earning you lavish praise at age two, successfully making a bowel movement in the toilet has probably started to lose some of its appeal. Fortunately for you, the Sarlacc Toilet is here to put the excitement back into your (semi-)daily act of defecation.

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iOS 7.1 is now out, bearing mostly minor tweaks and bug-fixes, but also CarPlay support.

Mar 10, 5:11PM

iOS 7.1 is now out, bearing mostly minor tweaks and bug-fixes, but also CarPlay support. At the moment there aren't any cars to support it, but as soon there are you'll be good to go. Well, if you're picking up a fancy new car anyway.

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A New Air Rights Report Tells New York City to Build Up, Up, Up!

Mar 10, 5:11PM

A New Air Rights Report Tells New York City to Build Up, Up, Up!

Air rights—the ability to sell the invisible real estate hovering above your property—have become a big New York City issue in recent years as property values have skyrocketed. A new report recommends easing the city's archaic restrictions to spur positive growth—including building more affordable housing.

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These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

Mar 10, 5:00PM

These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

It's one of those things you've seen your entire life and probably never thought much about. There's that iconic blue shield shape with a white number inside and a single word on a white background: "Interstate." It could've been so much worse.

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Off-Kilter Cube Houses Creatively Renovated Into Homes for Ex-Cons

Mar 10, 4:20PM

Off-Kilter Cube Houses Creatively Renovated Into Homes for Ex-Cons

Parts of the famously off-kilter "cube houses" project constructed back in 1984 to a design by architect Piet Blom in Rotterdam, Holland, have been transformed into new homes for 21 former prison inmates by Personal Architecture. The old, oddly angled complex has been updated with skylights and an internal light-well to allow more natural illumination, offering stronger "visual connections" between floors.

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Do You Use SAD-Busting Technology During Long Winters?

Mar 10, 4:05PM

Do You Use SAD-Busting Technology During Long Winters?

Seasonal Affective Disorder—either diagnosed or not—always seems the worst when winter drags on through March. But not everyone agrees on how affective light lamps and other tech really are in treating the winter blues. So tell me: Do you believe?

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Is SXSW's Real Life Mario Kart As Amazing As You'd Imagined?

Mar 10, 4:00PM

Is SXSW's Real Life Mario Kart As Amazing As You'd Imagined?

Everyone who's played Mario Kart secretly wants it to be real. Sure, flinging turtle shells and banana peels at other cars will probably get you arrested, and while I once did go karting after eating some shrooms, I can't say it helped my speed. So I was exited to try real-life Mario Kart at SXSW. Here's what it's like.

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The 500 MPH Superplane That Bugatti Had to Hide From the Nazis

Mar 10, 3:40PM

The 500 MPH Superplane That Bugatti Had to Hide From the Nazis

This is the Bugatti Model 100P: A 900 HP, 500 MPH, race plane imagined by none other than legendary automotive designer Ettore Bugatti, so technologically advanced that it could have single-handedly dominated the skies of WWII for Germany, had the Nazis ever gotten their hands on it. But after more than seven decades of obscurity in a French barn, the "Veyron of the Skies" is ready to finally take flight for the first time.

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This Massive, Mirrored Salad Bowl Will Store a Precious Art Collection

Mar 10, 3:08PM

This Massive, Mirrored Salad Bowl Will Store a Precious Art Collection

Art depots are the distribution warehouses of the art world. They're tucked into anonymous buildings on the outskirts of town, housing works that aren't on view. But in Rotterdam, the architects at MVRDV have won a competition to build a depot that will be open to the public.

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A Candid Talk With Mark Cerny, Who Designed The PS4, Among Other Things

Mar 10, 2:40PM

A Candid Talk With Mark Cerny, Who Designed The PS4, Among Other Things

In the 80s, he made arcade games for Atari. In the 10s, he led the team that made the PlayStation 4. Mark Cerny is old enough to have seen it all in the young medium of video games. For half an hour last month, we talked about a lot of it in a conversation that was as illuminating as it was, at times, surprisingly personal.

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Glenn Beck Is Making a Movie About Edison and Tesla

Mar 10, 2:33PM

Glenn Beck Is Making a Movie About Edison and Tesla

Former Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck is really sick of talking about politics. So what rustles his jimmies these days? The mythologized feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Beck even has a movie in production about Edison that he hopes will "expose the truth" about this "bad man."

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