Ever stood at an intersection and prodded at, leaned on, elbowed and otherwise palm-slapped the ever-living hell out of a crosswalk button and wondered to yourself if the thing actually does anything at all, really? Well – chances are, it doesn’t. Read more…
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Placebo buttons do absolutely nothing, and they are everywhere
The GameBoy is a classic piece of equipment, and if you want to live those glory days with a bit more power, blogger Max Thrun shows off how to turn a BeagleBone Black into a handheld device that can play a wide range of games. Read more…
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Build Your Own GameBoy-Sized Handheld with a BeagleBone
This may not come as a huge surprise, but life is different for the rich and the poor. Rich people relax by eating oysters. Poor people relax by smoking cigarettes. At least that’s what we’re led to believe based on a new study about how the presence of certain chemicals can indicate how rich or poor a person is. Read more…
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Rich People Are Full of Different Chemicals Than Poor People
The Macbook Air is a far cry from a gaming computer, but that didn’t stop Tech Inferno forum member kloper from hacking together a system to play high end games on a nice graphics card on an Macbook Air. Read more…
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Hack a High End Graphics Card Into a Macbook Air
A Van de Graaff can make the flame of the candle flicker. It does this by generating an “electric wind.” Read more…
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A Van de Graaff generator can snuff out a candle with “electric wind”
When Google Reader finally closed its doors, it shoved thousands of teary-eyed RSS fans into cyberspace, adrift, where we flailed around desperately for a suitable replacement. Many services rose to the challenge , but the incoming wave was a lot to handle. Too much for one of our favorite alternatives—The Old Reader—which is taking a page from Googs and shutting down as well. Read more…
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Even Google Reader Replacements Are Shutting Down
First Instagram , now this: An architecture and planning firm in Hong Kong has reportedly been chosen to turn a military airstrip in North Korea into an international airport. The plans show two donut-shaped terminals that could contribute to what some are describing as a tiny-but-not-imperceptible North Korean economic boom. Read more…
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Kim Jong-un Confirms Design For a $200 Million International Airport
An incredible fact from a fascinating new Buzz Aldrin interview: the Saturn V was only making 7 inches to the gallon at the moment of launch. Of course, the fuel economy improves dramatically when you actually take into consideration the entire distance travelled. Read more…
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Did you know that the Saturn V’s fuel economy was 7 inches per gallon?
In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute. Read more…
Windows/Mac/iOS/Android: If you’re worried about security in your Dropbox account, but don’t want to go through the extra effort of encrypting everything on your own , SafeMonk is a solution that encrypts your files automatically so you don’t have to think about it. Read more…
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SafeMonk Encrypts Your Files Before Sending them to Dropbox