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Comment on Mini Solar-Powered Car Is Your Less-Than-Two-Gold-Coins Deal of the Day by Mr. T Pity the fool who gets a solar car and not being able to use it most of the time in UK! 2013-06-10 16:27:29 Like Similar
Hey Look, Another Boring Samsung Android Phone Another dull Monday morning, and another dull Samsung generiphone to match. The Galaxy Ace 3 is a 4-inch budget ‘Droid offering that should perfectly plug the gaping hole in Samsung’s range, between its 3.97-inch cheap Android phone and its 4.2-inch cheap Android phone. The processor is a 1.2Ghz dual-core affair, powering a 480×800 TFT screen 2013-06-10 11:15:52 Like Similar
Stunning Behind-the-Scenes Photos Show Iconic Movies in a New Light We love the magic of the movies, that trickery that lets us believe in beautiful robots, time-travelling scientists, wolf men, and flying superheroes. But sometimes it’s fun to peek behind the curtain, and see the secrets and candid faces behind our favourite films. Photos from the set of Metropolis (1927, dir: Fritz Lang), taken 2013-06-10 10:30:47 Like Similar
Comment on You Don’t Have to Be Cool On The Internet by khos Aiiiight ‘sup dawgs. WWW in the north and south poles are cool, in fact they are really cold, cold as ice. This article is not cool, which I am cool with, now I gots to cool down, we all cool wif dat? 2013-06-09 23:05:56 Like Similar
A Simple Design Tweak Makes Sleeping Bags Less Like Straight Jackets A tapering mummy-style sleeping bag is easier to travel with since they can be compressed extremely compact. But if you suffer from even a smidgen of claustrophobia, spending a night in one can be like sleeping in a straight jacket. To make them more comfortable and compatible with those of us who toss and turn, 2013-06-09 21:00:54 Like Similar
How One Man Is Turning the Eiffel Tower into a Song If you want to make music, you’ve got a plenty of different instruments to choose from. But if you want to make really unique (or weird) music, you’ve got to find something off the beaten path. That’s why Joseph Bertolozzi chose the Eiffel Tower. A composer with a deep appreciation for both sophisticated architecture and 2013-06-09 18:00:35 Like Similar
Leaked Windows Phone Screenshots Finally Show a Notification Center Windows Phone 8 is pretty, and there’s a lot of things to like about it. But for every one of those there’s a glaring absence. Hopefully one of those is soon to disappear, leaked screenshots of an internal build of the OS shows that there’s finally a notification center, presumably coming soon. The screenshots were 2013-06-09 17:00:29 Like Similar
The History of Those Weird Keyboard Symbols You Never Knew You Needed Before the age of the internet, you likely never noticed some of the keyboard symbols that you now use all the time. Most of us still don’t know the actual history behind these now-ubiquitous symbols, the reasons they exist, or how they ended up in your email addresses and URLs. It’s actually fascinating once you 2013-06-08 14:00:25 Like Similar
28 Gorgeous Wind Tunnels That Will Blow You Away I’ve always been amazed by wind tunnels. Why? First of all, they’re massive structures. Then there’s the remarkable contribution they make to science and engineering—without wind tunnels, we likely wouldn’t have developed the aerospace technology that put us on the moon. And finally, wind tunnels are often simply gorgeous, dramatic spaces. For proof, see the 2013-06-07 19:00:53 Like Similar
These Armoured Nike Air Mags Were Made for Iron Man Though the Nike MAGs are already nostalgically beautiful in their own Back to the Future style, this custom Iron Man version of the Nike MAGs transforms the boot into something even more futuristic. Something that Tony Stark would invent. Something that you could imagine as part of Iron Man’s armour. Something that I so desperately want. 2013-06-07 12:00:14 Like Similar
Hey Spotify, Just Show Me the Album I Want to Listen to I pretty much never ever want to hear the edited version of any album. But for some reason, that ‘s exactly what Spotify wants me to hear. Or it least that’s the way it seems. In most cases, the cleaned up version is what Spotify shows you by default, and you have to do extra 2013-06-06 15:00:01 Like Similar
Now There’s Something You Might Finally Use Passbook For in the UK Pushing the digital ticket to its logical Apple-themed extension, BA’s finally added Passbook support to its iPhone app, meaning there might be something other than Starbucks to use with Passbook in the UK. A quick look through the list of apps available for Passbook in the UK shows quite a few airlines, including EasyJet apparently, 2013-06-06 12:15:37 Like Similar
Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars The film Star Wars premiered on May 25, 1977. To celebrate its 36th anniversary (a little late, I know), I’m examining the evolution of the film’s logo. During the film’s pre-production, a decal (below) was produced. In the first Official Star Wars Fan Club newsletter, reprinted in the Star Wars Scrapbook (Chronicle Books, 1991), there was an 2013-06-05 16:00:32 Like Similar
Bose QuietComfort 20: Noise-Canceling Engineered to Fit Your Ear Holes Today, Bose introduced the in-ear evolution of the awesome noise-cancelling headphones that have been hanging on the heads of weary travellers for years. I just listened to the QuietComfort 20 buds, and I can’t believe how much tech — and powerful sound — Bose crammed into my ears. The headphones will be available “this summer” for some £200-odd 2013-06-04 17:15:56 Like Similar
This Is How Iron Man 3 Should Have Ended Like, duh. If you have a lot of Iron Man suits, you use those Iron Man suits to blow things up. Especially bad guys. If you don’t enjoy doing that, then don’t be Iron Man! Go be Peace Corp Man instead. Of course, if Tony Stark did pull this stunt off, we’d have no Iron 2013-05-31 22:00:25 Like Similar
A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds We wholeheartedly approve of this recent trend of perfect 1:1 scale Lego creations. First, it was the Lego X-Wing, which tipped the scales as the largest Lego creation ever assembled. And now it’s this smaller — though no less fantastic — full scale Lego T-800 Terminator model built by Martin Latta. All-in-all the endoskeleton gobbled 2013-05-31 10:00:45 Like Similar
This Guy Built the Most Incredible Spider-Man Suit Ever Though building out the armour required for an Iron Man suit is obviously (some would say imposingly) impressive, re-creating the detailed webbing and lithe nature of Spider-Man’s suit is just as incredible a feat. MoonSpider shared the Spider-Man suit he made and it puts all Halloween Spidey costumes to shame. This is something Tobey Maguire 2013-05-26 18:00:31 Like Similar
What Is Flat Design, And Why Does Skeuomorphism Suck? With the release of iOS7 just around the corner, clamour over the changes Jony Ive will institute is growing. The general consensus—on this site and elsewhere—is that Apple is about to get a flat makeover. But for the uninitiated, “flat design” can be a confusing term. So let’s talk it out, shall we? Flat 2013-05-26 13:00:51 Like Similar
Galvani Electric Bike Review: Commuting, But Less Sweaty Bikes are great — cheap, light, easy to use, and super-duper-eco-friendly. But they’re also tiring. I mean, all that pedalling. It’s exercise. It sucks. So an electric bike, which gives you a subtle helping hand, would seem to be the best of both worlds. What is it? A £1,450 electric bike, that combines the 2013-05-22 16:00:54 Like Similar
Indesit and Hotpoint Recall (Potentially) Exploding Washing Machines Do you ever imagine how much it would hurt if your washing machine drum came out while it’s whizzing your pants and jeans around at maximum spin? If you’re an Indesit or Hotpoint owner there’s a small chance you may find out, thanks to concerns that “a very small percentage” of machines made between 2007 and 2013-05-15 14:15:51 Like Similar