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Data Hidden Inside of Music Could Soon Stream Right to Your Smartphone

Apr 30, 11:00PM

Data Hidden Inside of Music Could Soon Stream Right to Your Smartphone

Your religious neighbor may have been wrong about the satanic messages hidden in your new-fangled rock music, but researchers at Disney have figured out a very real way to hide data within songs. In a new study, they explain how the next concert or movie you go to could broadcast content to your phone through sound.

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This R2-D2 toy is so detailed that you can use it in the new Star Wars

Apr 30, 10:31PM

This R2-D2 toy is so detailed that you can use it in the new Star Wars

The detail on this 1:6 scale R2-D2 figurine is pretty much insane, especially since this type of toys are mostly, if not completely, static. Not this one. Everything opens and lights up in this R2-D2. It's pretty damn cool. Check out this video.

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LeapFrog's Kid Fitness Watch: A Tamagotchi That Gets Kids Off the Couch

Apr 30, 10:30PM

LeapFrog's Kid Fitness Watch: A Tamagotchi That Gets Kids Off the Couch

Fitness trackers are basically a grown-up excuse to mess around with a gadget under the guise of self-betterment. But why should adults have all the fun? Kids' electronics maker LeapFrog just unveiled the LeapBand, a wrist-worn fitness tracker that encourages kids to get up and do stuff.

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Duck and Cover Chic: The 1956 Uniform For the End of the World

Apr 30, 10:30PM

Duck and Cover Chic: The 1956 Uniform For the End of the World

I was flipping through some old copies of the Sunday newspaper insert American Weekly (as one does) when I came across these amazing images from 1956. New uniforms for the ladies of civil defense!

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Get to Know 63 Styles of Graphic Design With One Simple Poster

Apr 30, 10:05PM

Get to Know 63 Styles of Graphic Design With One Simple Poster

This one goes out to anyone who's ever fumbled and bluffed their way through a conversation about graphic design without the foggiest notion about differences between Bauhaus and British Arts and Crafts. The unrelenting creative team at Pop Chart Lab put together this handy—and quite handsome—crib sheet; an at-a-glance breakdown of styles through the ages.

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Pig Bladders Could Be the Secret to Healing Severe Muscle Injuries

Apr 30, 9:40PM

Pig Bladders Could Be the Secret to Healing Severe Muscle Injuries

When large chunks of muscle are lost in severe injuries, they don't grow back. But now, scientists have discovered a way to regenerate some lost muscle with material from pig bladders—a technique actually quite common in medicine.

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The Fascinating Untold History of War and Prosthetics

Apr 30, 9:20PM

The Fascinating Untold History of War and Prosthetics

There's something undeniably beautiful about prosthetic limbs, designed to echo the physical grace and mechanical engineering of the human body. For most people, these objects elicit some combination of squeamish discomfort and utmost respect. But far fewer of us connect those feelings to the untold generations of battle-scarred amputees whose sacrifices made prosthetics a public priority.

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Gawker A Brief History of Botched Executions in America | io9 The Ten Most Bizarre Theories About Wh

Apr 30, 9:16PM

Gawker A Brief History of Botched Executions in America | io9 The Ten Most Bizarre Theories About Why the Dinosaurs Went Extinct| Jalopnik Auto Shows Were Like Sexy Parties In The 1970s | Kotaku Pokémon Characters, All Grown Up | Kinja Popular Posts

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A Sand Art Case Gives Your iPhone a Radical 80s Makeover

Apr 30, 9:00PM

A Sand Art Case Gives Your iPhone a Radical 80s Makeover

The 80s might be long gone, but your fond memories of Reebok Pumps, Cabbage Patch Kids, and those water-filled sand art pictures will forever live on—at least that last one. Because someone has gone and made an iPhone case backed with hypnotic sand art that's constantly changing as you move your phone.

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It's Amazingly Easy to Hack Our Traffic Data And Cause Gridlock Chaos

Apr 30, 8:40PM

It's Amazingly Easy to Hack Our Traffic Data And Cause Gridlock Chaos

Turns out you don't need a shady, possibly-issued-from-the-governor lane closure on a major bridge to jam traffic. The sensor and signaling infrastructure on our streets is so vulnerable that all you need to wreak widespread havoc is a laptop.

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Is There Such a Thing as a Sonic QR Code?

Apr 30, 8:29PM

Is There Such a Thing as a Sonic QR Code?

There are at least two things that Sony Pictures marketing executives did not consider when preparing a cross-promotion between its new Spider-Man film and the song-identification app Shazam. I first read about this promotion this morning on io9.com , because pretty much the first thing I read every morning is Morning Spoilers on io9.com. The film in question, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, opens this Friday, May 2, in the United States. Expecting extended discussion about Peter Parker's doomed romance with Gwen Stacy or the rise of his frenemy Harry Osbourne to lead the high-tech firm founded by his father, instead there was news of an intriguing little digital-audio phenomenon.

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We're Still Waiting On The Dishwasher Utopia

Apr 30, 8:20PM

We're Still Waiting On The Dishwasher Utopia

Today, roughly 75 percent of American households have a dishwasher. But this wonder of modern kitchen science still lags well behind refrigerators and microwaves — which are both over 95 percent. The automatic dishwasher was the high-tech promise of the 1920s. And the 1950s. And the 1970s. So why has the dishwasher taken so long to become mainstream?

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Shooting Challenge: Brick

Apr 30, 8:15PM

Shooting Challenge: Brick

Concrete may be the material of modernity, but brick—mere baked clay blocks—trace back to 5000 BC. For this week's Shooting Challenge, do justice to the brick.

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These Magical OLED Lamps Are Embedded With Real Dandelions

Apr 30, 7:40PM

These Magical OLED Lamps Are Embedded With Real Dandelions

Almost everyone has some majestic memory involving summer sunshine cutting through a field and blowing white, fluffy dandelion seeds into the wind. Soon you can immortalize those warm feelings with a sleek, almost scientific-looking OLED lamp featuring a dandelion encased in acrylic.

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NASA reveals its next generation Tron spacesuit

Apr 30, 7:15PM

NASA reveals its next generation Tron spacesuit

This is it. This Tron-inspired design will be NASA's next generation spacesuit—the first that actually looks from the future and not a variation of the original 1960s suits from the Apollo program. With its glass 360-degree view and integrated Heads Up Display ready to detect xenomorphs, it would look right at home in any sci-fi movie.

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A Sleeping Bag Add-on That Gives Your Dog a Warm Spot to Snooze

Apr 30, 7:00PM

A Sleeping Bag Add-on That Gives Your Dog a Warm Spot to Snooze

If you can't stand the thought of your dog sleeping outside on a camping trip while you're warm and cozy inside a tent, you're apparently not alone. Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can help make the BarkerBag—a sleeping bag add-on that securely accommodates small dogs—a reality.

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Every MIT Undergrad Will Get $100 In Free Bitcoin Next Fall

Apr 30, 6:20PM

Every MIT Undergrad Will Get $100 In Free Bitcoin Next Fall

In the time-honored tradition of giving people things they otherwise do not want for free, the MIT Bitcoin Project will be handing every undergrad $100 in Bitcoin next semester. The campus, the project's creators hope, will become a giant social and economic experiment for Bitcoin.

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What It Will Take to Farm Sunlight from Space

Apr 30, 6:00PM

What It Will Take to Farm Sunlight from Space

Whether they're producing voltage directly from solar rays or focusing them to melt salt like Ivanpah , even Earth's biggest and baddest solar power plants are hamstrung by all this damnable atmosphere getting in the way. But a new kind of off-world solar energy plant could soon provide the whole planet with plenty of power—we just have to finish figuring out how to build and operate it.

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Android-Friendly Flash Drives, Razer Thin Laptop, Better Mornings

Apr 30, 5:45PM

Android-Friendly Flash Drives, Razer Thin Laptop, Better Mornings

This flash drive will work with your computer, of course, but a hidden MicroUSB plug lets you use it with your favorite Android device as well. The 32GB model is only $25 from Amazon.

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Why Nuclear Power Is So Controversial In the United States

Apr 30, 5:40PM

The United States has the largest nuclear power generation capacity in the world, but as a percentage of total energy production, we rank a mere 16th. At least part of the reason is that people fear nuclear energy, whether rationally or not.

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Logging Into Apps With Facebook Is About to Get a Lot Less Creepy

Apr 30, 5:26PM

Logging Into Apps With Facebook Is About to Get a Lot Less Creepy

Logging into apps and services with Facebook is really easy—but it's also really creepy. You don't want to just give up a ton of permissions you don't trust and don't even necessarily know you want to use more than once. At F8, Mark Zuckerberg announced some forthcoming improvements to Facebook logins that make it way better.

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Apr 30, 5:24PM

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General Motors Will Build You A Tidy, Little Shipping-Container House

Apr 30, 5:20PM

General Motors Will Build You A Tidy, Little Shipping-Container House

As someone who's been inside a fair number of hotels, I do wonder about living in tiny-yet-functional spaces long-term. I'm intrigued by the idea of shipping-container workspaces and living spaces, and it looks like General Motors has been, too.

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Who Is Breathing the Worst Air in America?

Apr 30, 5:20PM

Who Is Breathing the Worst Air in America?

Air pollution in the U.S. is better than it was a decade ago, but a staggering 147.6 million Americans—47 percent of the country—live in places where air quality is often too dangerous to breathe, according to the American Lung Association's State of the Air report.

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Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones

Apr 30, 5:00PM

Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones

The question of just how an ancient civilization—without the help of modern technology—moved the 2.5 ton stones that made up their famed pyramids has long plagued Egyptologists and mechanical engineers alike. But now, a team from the University of Amsterdam believes they've figured it out, even though the solution was staring them in the face all along.

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