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Poke Out Parts of This Perforated Lamp Shade To Make Your Own Pattern
Mar 17, 9:00PM
This Take-Off light shade comes in a single perforated sheet, and you poke out the teensy shapes to make whatever the heck pattern you want. It's like the design equivalent of popping bubble wrap—everyone likes popping bubble wrap!—except you've got to be pretty precise. Once false move and you've got a wackadoo motif to live with… forever.
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This WhatsApp Redesign Would Make Facebook's $16 Billion Buy Worth It
Mar 17, 8:40PM
Whatsapp has been one of the most talked about start-up giants in recent memory. Building upon the most basic of mobile services, messaging WhatsApp has managed to monetise and evolve the service through cross platform integration and making it free (among many other things). Following the $16billion acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook I thought that this is a good as time as any to look at what this means for WhatsApp and what changes both aesthetic and functional might be implemented by it.
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Twitter Is Reportedly Testing a "Fave People" Timeline...For Your Favs
Mar 17, 8:36PM
TechCrunch reports that Twitter is experimenting with a new version of timeline that allows you to browse a stream of tweets from your favorite accounts. If real, the new "Fave People" feature would mirror a similar feature on Facebook—and makes a lot of sense for helping you filter out the noise in your timeline.
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A Tandem Bike That Shrinks To Accommodate a Single Rider
Mar 17, 8:00PM
A tandem bike can make for a romantic outing for a couple in love, but when there's just a single passenger it makes for a challenging ride. So California-based Calfee Design built a pair of custom tandem bikes that can actually be transformed into single passenger cycles with just a few simple tools.
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Is Using Drones At Sports Events Actually A Crime? Should It Be?
Mar 17, 7:53PM
Last month, the Nationals were seen using a four-rotor drone to take publicity photos. The FAA took issue. "No, we didn't get it cleared, but we don't get our pop flies cleared either and those go higher than this thing did," a team official told the AP afterward. Which pretty neatly sums up the FAA's conundrum with regulating drones in the wild.
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This Wearable Abacus Is Basically the World's Oldest Smart Ring
Mar 17, 7:40PM
Smart rings may seem like something from an impossible (or at least highly unlikely ) vision of the future, but surprisingly enough, tech you can wrap around your little finger isn't anything new. Just take this itty-bitty abacus from the 17th century as proof.
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This Is How The US Navy Is Searching For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Mar 17, 7:20PM
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is missing. That much we know. Unfortunately, what we don't know includes where in the world it might be, let alone what happened to it. But the US Navy is in the Indian Ocean right now, trying to help find it. This is what they're doing.
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The Story Behind Syracuse's Upside-Down Traffic Light
Mar 17, 7:20PM
Unlike nearly every other traffic light in the U.S., the traffic light up on Tipperary Hill in Syracuse, New York displays green above red. Why this bizarre reversal? Well, St. Patrick's Day is an appropriate time to tell this story.
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Scientists Revive Moss That Was Encased In Ice For 1,500 Years
Mar 17, 7:00PM
Cryonics enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that scientists have demonstrated the ability to revive frozen life not just after a couple years or even a couple of decades. They can bring something back to life that's been frozen for fifteen centuries. The previous record was just 20 years.
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Why Cities Need to Stop Commissioning Calatrava's Fish Skeletons
Mar 17, 6:40PM
I remember the first time I saw a Santiago Calatrava bridge, a spinal column of calcium-white ribs snaking across a Spanish ravine. "That's cool," I thought. Then, a few years and a few thousand miles away, I saw another one. And another one. And another one.
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The Acer C720 Is The Best Chromebook (for now).
Mar 17, 6:38PM
After testing every Chromebook on the market we can say that most of them are not worth buying, but one of them did stand out to us.
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The Man Who Tried to Invent the Like Button in the 1930s
Mar 17, 6:30PM
Think Facebook invented the Like button? Think again. Back in the 1930s one man hoped to create a device that could send feedback to radio stations with the push of a button. He called it the "radiovota." Get it? The radio... voter.
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These 10,000-Year-Old Instruments Are Playing Their First Modern Gig
Mar 17, 6:20PM
Roughly ten millennia ago, musicians didn't lug amps or guitars around to their shows—they lugged lithophones, or instruments made of resonant rocks. The oldest lithophones ever found will be played in their first public concert next week in Paris. Sadly, it'll also be their last.
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This Beautiful IMDb Redesign Concept Is Long Overdue
Mar 17, 6:00PM
IMDb is one of the most useful sites on the web. But it's also one of the most outmoded. Now, two web designers have taken it upon themselves what an IMDb for 2014 would look like—and the results are pretty great. Here's how they explain their design.
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20% Off Everything Griffin, Samsung SSDs, SONOS Speakers [Deals]
Mar 17, 5:45PM
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If you own a phone, tablet, or laptop, there's a really good chance that Griffin makes cases and accessories for it. Today only, they're offering 20% St. Patrick's Day savings sitewide with promo code GREEN20.
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Scientists Use Graphene to Make Bionic, Super-Powered Plants
Mar 17, 5:40PM
A team of chemical engineers and biochemists has managed to change how plants work. Well, to be exact, they've made plants work better by embedding carbon nanotubes into the plants' leaves so that they absorb more light. Put simply, they've created bionic plants.
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Microsoft has a special deal for Windows XP users.
Mar 17, 5:39PM
Microsoft has a special deal for Windows XP users. If you buy a new PC, the company will give you a $50 gift card, 90 days of tech support, and free data transfer. Or, in the words of one Wall Street Journal reporter, "Microsoft is bribing people to stop using Windows XP."
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This Sneaky Trash Can Lid Lures Flies to Their Death
Mar 17, 5:20PM
Just like Romeo and Juliet, flies are tragically destined to crave their one true love: Pungent, moldy, rotten garbage. And thanks to this ingenious trash can design that traps flies only to have them starve, the flies' love can prove just as fatal as Shakespeare's.
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Razor Crazy Cart Review: Even More Fun Than It Looks
Mar 17, 5:00PM
When I was a kid, the Big Wheel endgame was to pedal down the driveway, then peel out in a Mario Kart-esque sliding turn. That typically meant more skinned chins and elbows than glory. Razor's Crazy Cart, though, lets me drift to my heart's content. You want fun? This thing's got fun.
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Watch This Phone Screen-Protector Handle a Drill and Knives with Ease
Mar 17, 4:40PM
There's nothing quite as frustrating as a deep gouge on your new phone's screen. Still, it can be hard to bring yourself to put on some stupid-looking screen protector. Unless it's as tough as this one that we attacked with a hammer. And a drill.
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Astronomers Discover First Direct Proof of the Big Bang Expansion
Mar 17, 4:20PM
Somebody's going to win a Nobel Prize. At least that's what the physics community is saying after the announcement on Monday that a Harvard team has found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang . It's more proof that the Big Bang really was the beginning of it all.
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The Woods Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying
Mar 17, 4:12PM
Like a landscape of the undead, the woods outside Chernobyl are having trouble decomposing. The catastrophic meltdown and ensuing radiation blast of April 1986 has had long-term effects on the very soil and ground cover of the forested region, essentially leaving the dead trees and leaf litter unable to decompose. The result is a forest full of "petrified-looking pine trees" that no longer seem capable of rotting.
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Looks like people have been running into to some problems using Gchat.
Mar 17, 4:05PM
Looks like people have been running into to some problems using Gchat. We're looking into the issue—but how's Gchat looking on your end?
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How NASA's Supercritical Wings Save Airlines Millions Every Year
Mar 17, 3:40PM
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, aviation engineers struggled to overcome an important issue: That planes became increasingly difficult to control, the closer they got to the sound barrier. It wasn't until NASA strapped a pair of custom-made wings onto this fighter that supersonic flight became not just feasible, but downright commonplace.
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The (floating) sun also rises in Sydney Harbor--in this case, for Opera Australia's outdoor producti
Mar 17, 3:39PM
The (floating) sun also rises in Sydney Harbor—in this case, for Opera Australia's outdoor production of Madama Butterfly. Each night, the sailcloth orb is inflated by two fans and illuminated by 12 LED lights. "Orb master" Andrew Tindal-Davies sits inside, making sure the sun rises without a hitch. [James Morgan for Opera Australia]
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