Skype just made group video calling available to all users for free instead of being locked under Premium. Looks like someone is catching up to Hangouts. Read more…
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Skype just made group video calling available to all users for free instead of being locked under Pr
If there are kids in your future, so is one of those mugs with a picture of your children on it. But wouldn’t it be great if that image could be updated as they grow up? That’s exactly what the Muki mug from Paulig promises, thanks to an e-Ink display powered by your piping hot coffee. Read more…
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This Mug’s Customizable e-Ink Display Is Powered By Hot Coffee
There are plenty of ways to deal with chemical waste: You could ship it across the ocean . Or pump in into Ohio . Or, you could use plasma gasification—a Back to the Future -style process that “recreates the conditions inside a volcano” to incinerate waste. One byproduct of the process? A glassy synthetic obsidian. Read more…
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This Obsidian Mirror Was Once Toxic Chemical Waste
Getting crews out to patch roads is sometimes more trouble than its worth. It snarls traffic for hours at a time, costs counties and states hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, and typically only fixes the problem for a short time. But this gravel-blasting utility truck aims to make the permanent patch process faster than firing a gunstick. Read more…
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This Utility Truck Can Exterminate a Pothole Every 120 Seconds
Cool map alert: Donut Holes in International Waters is an interactive map that shows which countries have sovereignty over the high seas. It shows how we’ve diced up the waters with international law—and what all the left-over bits and pieces look like. Read more…
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A Pirate-Friendly Map of the Pieces of Ocean That No Country Owns
Starting today, all of Apple’s retail stores will accept any of the company’s ageing products for recycling —and, if it looks resaleable, you might even get some store credit, too. Read more…
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Apple Now Recycles Any Product You Give Back (and Gives You Credit)
Read a magazine, book or website and you’ll see the product of Matthew Carter’s labors all over it—because he’s the guy who designed hundreds of fonts, including Verdana and Georgia. In this video, he describes the interaction between technology and design in the creation of typefaces. Read more…
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The Man Who Designed Verdana and Georgia Describes a Life Making Fonts
Graphene may be the supermaterial to rule them all —but it turns out you can make it at home . In your kitchen blender. Here’s how. Read more…
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How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender
A new water-repellant concrete impregnated with tiny superstrong fibers promises to leave roads and bridges free of major cracks for up to 120 years. Read more…
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Advanced Concrete Could Last More Than A Century Without Maintenance
It’s no surprise that the diamond industry is willing to spend whatever it takes to make the process of mining precious gems even more profitable. And while it already relies on X-ray technology for spotting diamonds on the surface of mined ore, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute’s Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT have developed a way to now spot them buried inside rocks. Read more…
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Researchers Develop a Way to X-Ray Rocks To Find Hidden Diamonds