The geniuses at Slaperoo Percussion hacked together this prototype for an electric instrument made from a spring doorstop. Finally, somebody is harnessing the wonderful household tone we’ve been ignoring for years. Read more…
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Spring Doorstop Hacked to Make a Wonderful Electric Instrument
It’s okay to desire the finer things in life, but at what point do you draw the line between luxury and exorbitance? Probably somewhere well before this insane 200-foot long mega-yacht from CRN called the J’ade, which features a built-in garage that smaller boats can drive right into. Read more…
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A Super-Yacht With a Garage For Smaller Boats Is Luxuriously Obscene
Ice cream is a dish best served cold, but liberating it from its carton is an exercise in bent spoons and throbbing wrists. Kickstarter’s Michael Chou spent years striving for the perfect solution, and here it is: The Midnight Scoop , shaped to engage your most powerful arm muscles in the quest for deliciousness. Read more…
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Obsessed Engineer Devises The Perfect Scooper for Rock Hard Ice Cream
Maglev trains have been promised as the future of public transport since about forever, but high-speed magnetic levitation systems are rapidly gaining a serious reputation — something Japan’s public demonstration of its high-speed maglev system is only going to help. Read more…
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Japan Tests Its New 500kmph Maglev Train
I’ve tried practically every version of the Oculus Rift VR headset, from some of the original duct-taped prototypes through to the latest DK2 developer kit and the Samsung Gear VR. Nothing I’ve seen prepared me for the new Crescent Bay demo. I just tried one of the best games I’ve never played . I want more. Read more…
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I Tried The New Oculus Rift, And It Blew Me Away All Over Again
Amazon — king of selling stuff on the interwebz — just paid a cool $4.5 mil to buy the rights to the .Buy top-level-domain, beating out Google in the process. Read more…
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Amazon Beat Google to Buy the .Buy Domain Name for $4.5 Million
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4, 268 x 5, 690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. Read more…
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The biggest comparison of sci-fi spaceships ever is complete at last
If you head over to your Facebook Apps Settings page, you’ll be shocked to know how many useless apps you’ve got attached to your account. My account, for instance, is hooked up to 448 apps (there’s something called ” are u in love?!?!?
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Facebook’s Revamped App Settings Page Makes It Easy To Unhook Apps
On Tuesday, Apple announced a nifty iPhone feature called Wi-Fi calling, which allows you to make calls off a known wireless network instead of off your carrier’s towers. But at launch, only T-Mobile customers have access to the feature. Turns out AT&T will be getting the service next year too. Read more…
A team of researchers from Princeton University has started doing some very strange things with light. Instead of letting it zip by at incredibly high speed, they’re stopping it dead: freezing it into crystal . Read more…
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Physicists are Making Solid Light