The ultrathin, single-fiber endoscope boasts four times the resolution of existing designs and could result in minimally invasive surgeries for studying the brain, detecting cancer early, and more. [Read more]
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Stanford unveils high-res ‘micro-endoscope’ thin as hair
The Battersea Power Station is an iconic London building, but it’s been tragically unused since it was decommissioned in 1983. Now architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea wants to turn that around with a proposal to make the abandoned spot a roller coaster. Where do we sign? More »
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An Abandoned London Power Station Could Find New Life As a Stunning Roller Coaster
Want to try Microsoft Office 365 but don’t want to pay for a subscription? If you have an .edu email address you can get up to six months of free access, plus an extra 20GB of SkyDrive online storage. More »
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iOS ( jailbroken ): Waiting for the camera app to load (and having other people see it on your screen) doesn’t exactly make for good covert photos. QuickShoot is a jailbreak tweak that takes a picture from your home screen without even opening the camera app. More »
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QuickShoot Takes Secret Photos from Your iPhone’s Home Screen
After analyzing more than 10 million anonymized emails from Yahoo!, a group of computer researchers stumbled upon a fascinating trend: countries with economic and cultural similarities had a tendency to send each other emails far more frequently. More »
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This Fascinating Email Map Shows You Which Countries Are Buddies and Which Aren’t Getting Along
Finding great music on the internet is easy, but keeping all of it organized can be tough. You might have videos favorited at YouTube, a playlist at SoundCloud, or maybe artists bookmarked at Bandcamp. Songdrop collects and organizes them all for you. More »
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Songdrop Collects All the Music You Find on the Web, All in One Place
It’s assumed that just because modern machines use lasers and other electronic technologies, they’re far more precise and accurate than mechanical contraptions from many years ago. But as Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe discovered at a tannery, that’s not always the case. More »
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This Antique Machine Measures Irregular Shapes Better Than a Calculus Professor
At first thought, an e-ink smartphone sounds like a terrible idea. Ugh, all that lag. But think about the light weight, low cost, and insane battery life, and you can see why eInk, the company behind the screen in Nooks and Kindles, is pushing its new prototype phone hard. More »
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An E-Ink Android Would Only Need Charging Once a Week
Huawei could add a waffle-maker to its Ascend P2, and I doubt even that would be enough to pull people over to its side of the phone stores. Unlike the Ascend D2 unveiled at CES, there’s no 3,000mAh battery lurking here (you’ll have to “make do” with a 2420 one), but there’s a CAT 4LTE chipset, meaning 4G speeds can reach 150Mbps (the iPhone 5 and S3 LTE only have CAT 3, FYI). More »
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Huawei Claims It Has the World’s Fastest 4G Phone—But Who Really Cares?
Recycling is great, but it would nice if trees didn’t have to be involved at all in paper production. More oxygen, more animal hangouts, good stuff. The Italian notebook maker Ogami agrees, so they’ve developed a line of paper products made out of rocks . More »
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Taking Notes Will Feel A Lot More Biblical On Paper Made Of Stone