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Famous Paintings Reproduced In Coffee [Art]
Sure this reproduction of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam is a lil' bit perverted by the inclusion of a coffee cup, but look closer. The entire masterpiece was painted using only coffee I'm amazed that I haven't seen these coffee art clones before. They're the creation of Karen Eland, a former b …
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MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads and More [Fashion]
Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway's premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT's Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out below. A lot of this stuff is just playful, so some of the clothes don't need to be too polished&mda …
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64% of Men Don’t RTFM Before Calling Tech Support [Tech Support]
Gadget Helpline, a UK tech support service, found that well over half of their male customers didn't even bother to read the manual before calling tech support. C'mon guys, is that the best we can do? Apparently, 24% of all females calling in had read the manual before picking up the phone. Good on …
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The Cité du Design Certainly Lives Up to Its Name [Architecture]
This gorgeous building in France is more than just a pretty complex. The Cité du Design does one of the best jobs I've ever seen at concealing the solar panels that help power the structure. The building is made up of 14,000 equilateral triangles. Some are solar panels, some are windows, others just …
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Latest Snow Leopard Developer Build Breaks Hackintosh Support... Again [Hackintosh]
Enough with the back and forth already, Apple. If you're going to kill Atom support then just kill it. Don't toy with us, taking and giving like some sort of merciless god. The video above shows what happens if you try to boot the latest 10.6.2 developer build on a Hackintosh. As you can see, not mu …
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Nokia Booklet 3G Landing November 15 at Best Buy [Nokia]
We knew the the place and the price, just needed to know when the party starts. You can grab a pre-order for the $600 netbook ($300 with two-year contract) at Best Buy and pick it up November 15. [Engadget]
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BlueBeat’s Innovative Defense That Will Never Hold Up in Court [Music]
Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were "psycho-acoustic simulations" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hold up in court. Hank calls the technique equivalent to a virtual cover band …
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Watch Jonathan Ive's Segment in Objectified [Apple]
Objectified, Gary Hustwit's look at the world of industrial design, featured a lengthy section on Apple Chief Designer Jon Ive—and now that clip is online for impatient Apple fans to see. [Brainstorm Tech] The clip is pretty interesting, even if you're not normally enamored with Apple. Ive …
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Robot Cow Rectum: For Educational, not Recreational, Purposes [Robots]
The ‘Haptic Cow' may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow's feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. Miss Baillie's invention solves one of the biggest problems in veterinary medicin …
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Robot Cow Rectum: For Educational, not Recreational, Purposes [Caption Contest]
The ‘Haptic Cow' may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow's feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. Miss Baillie's invention solves one of the biggest problems in veterinary medicin …
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