Monthly Archives: April 2011

Tiny Barebones Quadrocopter Is Adorable And I Want One

We’ve always liked the Parrot AR Drone quadrocopter, and of course the four-rotor layout is gaining popularity among robocists everywhere — but this is something totally new. Weighing in at just 20 grams (that’s only slightly more than DARPA’s… Continue reading

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Bicycle Wine Rack

Love Wine? Love Riding your bike? Your life is now complete with this Bicycle Wine Rack.
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Police medic wields magic wellness stick

“Primum non nocere.” Unless you have a cool-looking baton and you just can’t help yourself.

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Stolen Camera Finder

Matt Burns created this website to help you find your stolen camera. It looks on the web for other photos with the same EXIF ID.

Stolen Camera Finder

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The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone

The ultra-pure water used to clean semiconductors and make microchips would suck vital minerals right out of your body. Plus it tastes really nasty. FACT: Water can be too clean to drink–so clean that it’s actually not safe to drink.

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France Dropping Concrete Bombs In Libya

Forget the United States’ low-collateral damage Small Diameter Bomb, France has begun using concrete filled training bombs to literally crush Gadhafi’s tanks without causing massive explosions that can harm nearby civilians.Apparently, the 660-pou… Continue reading

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The monkey tail, a beard

The awesome and epic Monkey Tail is the first major new beard of the twenty-first century and represents a profound innovation in the bearding industry.

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Weird software bugs

From Wikipedia, a list of unusual software bugs, including the Mandelbug and Heisenbug. My favorite is the Schrödinbug:

A schrödinbug is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that … Continue reading

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Casaurus

It’s a bookshelf. It’s an elephant dinosaur. It’s a climbing toy. It’s brilliant and called Casaurus. Hat tip to Koichiro Hoshino.
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CryTek For Free: CryEngine 3 SDK and Editor

Samfer writes with this excerpt from Operation Reality Gaming:
“[...] sometime this summer, likely around August, we will see the appearance online of both a Crysis 2 editor and a CryEngine 3 SDK (software development kit). This not only means that peo… Continue reading

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