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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
Bicycle Wine Rack
Love Wine? Love Riding your bike? Your life is now complete with this Bicycle Wine Rack.
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Posted in gift guide: generic, great gift, made me smile
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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.
Posted in Action
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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.
That’s the … Continue reading
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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
Posted in Ammo and Munitions, Around the Globe, Contingency Ops, Fire for Effect
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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.
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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Posted in Furniture, kids stuff
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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
Posted in FPS
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