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LG’s Glueless Packaging Is Almost as Impressive as the OLED TV Inside

A product’s packaging is usually nothing but the last obstacle between you and a shiny new gadget, but often there’s as much thought that goes into the design of a cardboard box as the device inside. For instance, LG put a remarkable amount of design effort into the box its OLED TVs ship in, and most consumers will never even notice. Read more…

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Sharp’s Free-Form Display Make Bezels Super-Thin, Screens Any Shape

Rectangular screens are so square. Which is presumably why Sharp has announced a new technology called Free-Form Display—that could allow screens to come in any space, and reduce bezel size to almost zero. Read more…

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These Inductive Batteries Keep Your Power Tools Perpetually Charged

It’s almost impossible to think of a time when you had to wrangle a long cord while working with power tools. But as convenient as cordless tools are, they’re useless if their batteries are dead. So this fall, Bosch will be introducing batteries with inductive charging that simply need to be placed on a base station for the power to flow. Read more…

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Ikea’s New Glowing Stool Lights a Safe LED Fire Under Your Butt

The summer isn’t even here yet, but if you’re leaving home and heading off to college in September, it’s never too early to start planning and stockpiling what you’ll need. And since you’ll probably be crammed into a tiny dorm room, Ikea’s new glowing LED stool does double duty as a lamp and place to sit/pile dirty laundry. Read more…

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Raytheon’s Modular Missile Defense Snaps Together Like Lego Bricks

As the number and variety of air, space, and surface-based threats to our naval fleets continue to proliferate, defending against them all is getting harder and harder. But equipped with this new unified threat detection system from Raytheon, our Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will know what’s coming from 30 times farther away. Read more…

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Raytheon’s Modular Missile Defense Snaps Together Like Lego Bricks

Bypass Pre-Roll Surveys with Your Browser’s Inspect Element Tool

Ever visit web site that won’t let you read the article until you fill out a survey? Many of them are byapssable—you just need to modify the source code a bit. Read more…

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This is the new larger iPhone 6, claims reliable source

You are looking at the new iPhone 6—at least according to Sonny Dickson, whose Apple leaks have always been accurate. If this is true, his photo confirms the rumors that claimed that Apple would start producing 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 models starting in May. Read more…

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This machine produces edible mist in 200 delicious flavors

The Lick Me I’m Delicious laboratory is the brainchild of food inventor Charlie Harry Francis, who invented a portable nitro ice cream parlor in 2011. Now he has invented an awesome machine that produces edible mist in more than 200 flavors, including mango, chocolate, apple pie, and smoked bacon. Read more…

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Bic Is Trying To Make a Font Based on All the World’s Handwriting

In yet another crushing blow to Comic Sans, pen-maker Bic is currently soliciting handwriting samples from anyone on Earth who wants to participate in its Universal Typeface Experiment . The goal is to create a universal font that will presumably supplant Comic Sans as the go-to typeface for amateur designers making birthday cards, lunch room signage, or business cards for toddlers. Read more…

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