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http://feeds.gawker.com Did You Know That Earth Is Getting Lighter Every Day? [Wtf]
Earth is getting
50,000 tonnes lighter every year, even while 40,000 tonnes of space dust fall onto our planet's surface during the same period. So, why are we losing so much weight? You will be surprised.
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Slick Augmented Reality Demo Works On Any Object Without Special Markers [Video]
One of the (many) reasons augmented reality apps haven't caught on is because they usually require markers or special objects for their tracking software to work. Unlike this
Obvious Engine system which can easily track anything in a scene.
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Heat Seeking Robot Absorbs and Shares The Warmth In Your Home [Video]
It's useless for keeping your floors clean, but those of us living in colder climates will certainly appreciate this
concept Hagent robot that seeks out the warmest places in your home, absorbing the heat to share with you later.
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Stylish Pendant Tools Keep You Fashion Forward, And Alive [Tools]
That massive Gerber multi-tool on your belt probably comes in really handy during emergencies, but not on a catwalk. If you want to be prepared for whatever life throws out you
and look fashionable, you'll want to consider
Wenger's HypeX line.
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Recycled Air Bag Backpacks Save the Environment, Not Lives [Bags]
After an airbag deploys it's not like you can just cram it back into your steering wheel and carry on. They have to be cut out and replaced, which gives
MariClaRo the materials it uses to create this lovely backpack.
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Watch OK Go's New Desert Orchestra Stunt Driving Music Video [Video]
Last week we showed you a quick
preview of OK Go's new video for "Needing/Getting", and now here's the full monty, compiled from a literal drive-by of 1157 homemade instruments of melodic Rube Goldberg(ish) goodness.
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The Best Big Screen 3D HDTV [Battlemodo]
No, the Super Bowl is not going to be in 3D this year. Again. But that doesn't mean you don't want a 3D set. Here's the thing: The best 2D TV is a 3D TV. The burlier image processors required to render the third dimension make everything look better.
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Lego Lord of the Rings Sets First Look: They Are Awesome! [Lego]
Rejoice fellows of the Lego ring, because we got the
first close-up look of the Lego Lord of the Rings sets coming out this year. And they are amazing, from the Mines of Moria—cave troll included!—to Helm's Deep to Shelob!
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Hankie Notepads Keep Reporters Looking Dapper [Office]
That
Field Notes notebook you'll find in many a reporter's back pocket ensures they never miss a scoop, but it doesn't do a lot for their image. At least not as much as this clever
faux-hankie notebook that complements a blazer.
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Tilting Table Somehow Makes Ping Pong Even Awesomer [Video]
They said it couldn't be done, but
Robb Godshaw has successfully found a way to make ping pong—truly man's greatest sport—even better. By introducing a rocking mechanism under the table, and high-powered flashes to throw off your opponent.
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The Good Wife, Where Computers...Save the Day. Just Like in The Good Wife [Video]
You might think the TV show
The Good Wife is best suited to middle-aged women (so much so that my fiance enforces reference restraint when we're out with friends). Seriously though, it's one of the best shows on TV. Character Depth! Complex, contemporary issues! And tons of tech. Bear with me.
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Is the Prizm a Multi-Function Stand Or a Klingon Ceremonial Weapon? [Ipad]
Hub's
flat-packed Prizm iPad stand is designed to be as light and minimal as possible, separating into two pieces of precision cut thin aluminum that can be easily slipped inside a bag or case alongside your tablet.
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Zen Table Carves Incredible Sand Drawings [Video]
The best Kickstarter projects are the ones that have videos of the product doing what it claims to do, and are already well-funded when you discover them. Like this amazing Zen Table which creates intricate sand drawings using a
metal ball specially designed sculpting head.
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This Photo Perfectly Sums Up Everyone's Feelings On the Yellow Pages [Humor]
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank
Kate who perfectly sums up how I, and probably a good chunk of the population, feel about those giant stacks of unclaimed phone books showing up at apartment buildings every year.
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Self Cooling Can Plummets Thirty Degrees In Mere Minutes [Video]
Yesterday we showed you a few methods for
quickly chilling your Superbowl libations, but none are as fast, or easy, as West Coast Chillers new can which lowers the energy drink's temperature by 30 degrees at the push of a button.
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Amazon's Latest Hire Could Mean More Apps For Kindle [Kindle]
A platform is useless without dedicated developers.
Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig as director of Amazon's Kindle Cross Platform team.
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Treaded Skateboard Turns Any Mountain Into Your Halfpipe [Skateboards]
The hard plastic wheels used on skateboards usually means they're relegated to only gleaming the cube on smoother surfaces like sidewalks. That's not the case with Rockboard's Descender, which adds
tank-like treads for all-terrain ollies and kickflips.
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Captured: Accused Rapist Who Taunted Police On Facebook [Crime]
Remember Dustin McCombs,
the rapist suspect who taunted the police in Facebook? Not surprisingly, he was captured by U.S. Marshals in Ohio after their colleagues from the Gulf Coast Regional Task in Birmingham gave them a tip about his whereabouts, presumably using internet address location information.
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Bone Conducting Ski Goggles: Say It With Your Skull [Video]
Microphones can't discriminate what they hear, which can lead to noisy conversations if you're careening down a snowy hill. But by picking up the vibrations in your skull while you talk, Buhel's new
SpeakGoggle G33s promise to clearly decipher every word.
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Siri Makes For a Terrible Fitness Coach [Video]
So by now we've realized that Siri isn't the end all of personal assistants that Apple claimed it would be. In fact, as
Nick Douglas discovered, she's particularly unhelpful when it comes to assisting with your morning exercise routine.
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The Three Super Bowl Cities Seen From Space [Video]
Here are the three cities of Sunday's Super Bowl as seen from space: New York City (Giants), Greater Boston area (Patriots), and the host city, Indianapolis, Indiana. The high definition images were captured by NASA's Landsat 7.
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Haptic Weather Forecaster Lets You Feel Tomorrow's Temperature [Video]
The Sun? Clouds? Little wavy lines? These cryptic icons used by meteorologists only serve to confuse those of us wanting to know tomorrow's forecast. So
Robb Godshaw created this easy-to-understand forecasting device that lets you feel what tomorrow's temperature will be.
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This Lady Just Predicted the Future—Or at Least the Weather—with Asparagus [Video]
Jemima Packington was born with the gift of foresight. Unfortunately, that future-vision is only legible by reading the positions of thrown asparagus. That's right—she's an asparamancer and she just foretold the births of two royal British heirs and Britain's imminent trouncing of the rest of the world in the 2012 Olympics.
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Ethereal Insect Photographs Will Cure Your Phobia of Bugs [Image Cache]
Malaysian photographer
Lee Peiling created images so fantastic, it feels like you're peering into another world. A world populated with helpful praying mantises and ants ready to lend a helping hand.
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Corning and Samsung Team Up for Gorilla Glass-Tough OLED [Samsung]
Gorilla Glass, especially version 2.0, has earned its reputation for durability and strength. But reputation only goes so far and Samsung wants something more. That's why Cornign and Samsung are joining forces to develop a newer, better, more scratch-resistant AMOLED screens.
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12 Floating Airports That Turn City Skylines and Rivers into Landing Strips [Transportation]
Whether sitting atop the Hudson or drifting just above a skyscraper, these conceptual floating airports put landing strips where they're needed most: in the middle of bustling metropoleis. Our friends at
Oobject have assembled 12 of the best.
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Music Bloodline Is the Perfect Discovery Tool for Spotify-Using Music Nerds [Music]
Music discovery on Spotify sucks. It really sucks. It's amazing that you can listen to millions upon millions of songs for $10 a month, but trying to find something new is frustrating if all your friends listen to crap. Music Bloodline
is your savior.
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Pixound Turns Photos into Musical Instruments, and It?s Better Than You Think [Apps]
Pixound brings an intriguing approach to the music app: letting you play any photo as if it were a musical instrument. That was enough to get our attention, and when we first started playing around with the
Pixound app for iOS ($1), we thought it was a neat gimmick, but probably not worth a buck.
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This Week's Top Web Comedy Video [Video]
Ah, the pixie dream girl of romantic comedies past. She's perfect, isn't she? So light-hearted, so whimsical, so in touch with the simple joys of glitter. But what lies beneath that fairy dust exterior? Well, this.
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The Army's New Individual First Aid Kit Will Save Life and Limb without Getting in the Line of Fire [War]
The Army's IFAK—Individual First Aid Kit—used to be built into a SAW ammo pouch. This was a terrible solution as the pouch would continually get caught on other equipment—not what you want in a fire-fight. But no longer! The US military has just overhauled this life-saving accessory.
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Kitties, Komen and The New Editor of Mainstream News [Internet]
There's a new editor in chief of mainstream news.
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The World Now Buys More Smartphones than Computers [Factoid]
In 2011, manufacturers shipped 487.7 million smartphones and only 414.6 million computers—that's desktops, laptops and tablets.
Combined. We'd heard prophecy of this day, and now it may have arrived.
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How the Best Super Bowl Commercial Was Almost Cancelled by Apple [Video]
You know Apple's 1984 commercial. You've seen Apple's 1984 commercial. Heck, it's widely accepted that the 1984 commercial is one of the best ads of all time. But did you know it was almost cancelled by Apple before it ever aired?
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The Domino's Super Bowl Pizza War Room Oozes Pepperoni, Cheese, and Sadness [Pizza]
On Super Bowl Sunday, 55 IT specialists will huddle together in a dark room to keep their company's website afloat on the biggest day of its entire year, since it's going to be bombarded by millions of ravenous fans. But the company they work for isn't the NFL.
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The Hustler: Sometimes Winning Doesn't Mean Shit [Movie Night]
If you haven't seen The Hustler yet, one of the best movies in the history of cinema, please don't delay it anymore. This movie will leave you in awe from beginning to end. And while you are at it, have a whiskey or two.
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These Childhood-Adult Hybrid Portraits Are Freaky and Fascinating [Photography]
Photographer
Bobby Neel Adams' Age-Maps are as fascinating as they are spooky. He combines a person's childhood portrait with an adult one, resulting in these weird hybrids. Some of the results are hilarious. Others freak me out.
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Everything You Need to Actually Meet Your Deadlines [Toolkit]
A workplace with constant access to the internet can be a knife in the face of productivity, and a total nuclear disaster for any actual deadlines. Here are a few tools to help you stay on track and on time.
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3 Ways to Chill Your Super Bowl Beer FAST (2 UPDATES) [Happy Hour]
It's game time. You're hosting, which makes you the quarterback of the party. Your friend blitzes you with a six-pack of warm beer. Don't let this blitz get in the way of getting blitzed. Here are two tried and true fast beer-cooling techniques... and one harebrained scheme.
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The Destruction of a US Navy Ship As Big As a City Block [Video]
This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two football fields and ten floors high.
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