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The giant paper plane is hoisted from the Earth in preparation for its maiden flight.
Paper planes may normally be the work of kids, but it’s fair to say you’d struggle to fly this particular model across a classroom. A team of designers and aviators have made young boys’ dreams a reality by erecting what is [...]
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The gumPhone
Engineer Vs. Designer, a design blog has challenged the 3D printing community to create “the most absurd 3D-printable iPhone accessory” one can imagine (and, in turn, have a chance to win a MakerBot Replicator). The result? A whole basket-load of crazy. (Pics)
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It was all fun and games until he had to start eating giant regurgitated worms.
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Quote of the Day: “I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life. Hmmm, I’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.” – - Mitch Hedberg
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The genetically modified fish were originally bred to help detect environmental pollutants.
The latest must try food craze to hit America is sushi that glows in the dark. The sushi was inspired by genetically modified fish first bred for scientific research, a video showing how to make the glowing sushi has become a huge hit online. [...]
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Lego
We’ve seen some pretty awesome Lego creations in the past, including a Volkswagen van, Angry Birds, and even the heart of the Large Hadron Collider. But what about Lego inventions that actually work? Here are some of our favorite, fully functional Lego creations. (pics and videos)
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Book art by Brian Dettmer
If you think cutting up books can only be a destructive process, then you have never encountered the art of Brian Dettmer. Dettmer uses knives, tweezers and surgical tools to carve out books one page at a time to create these works of art. (Pics)
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Mass suicide in the phone industry. If only they had a way to call for help!
Quote of the Day: “A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.” – Dennis Miller
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Pedro Alonzo Lopez, The ‘Monster of the Andes’
Serial killers gain their notoriety in several ways. They can gain notoriety by the bizarre or brutal methods they use to single out and kill their victims, or by the sheer number of killings they carry out.
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New Mars photos show amazing activity.
For such a dead planet, Mars sure has got a lot of things going on. LIke this mini tornado, as captured by camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:..
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Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov uses real ants to create amazingly cool photographs in the series “Ant Tales”
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The carrot-top leek-a-phone, for that truly organic sound…
.Quote of the day: “A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.” – Mitch Hedberg
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The ride looks like an ordinary roller coaster – but is designed to kill.
A Lithuanian engineer, Julijonas Urbonas, has come up with macabre roller coaster concept where passengers are thrilled and then ‘killed’. (Pics)
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Human pixels, because traditional media is not social
Quote of the Day: “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
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Baca Architects ‘amphibious’ home
An “amphibious” home has been granted full planning permission and is set to be built on the banks of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire. The residential home designed by Baca Architects is an architectural feat that overcomes the threat of flooding by becoming a “free-floating pontoon” during a [...]
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An adult Chikilidae, a new species of legless amphibian known as a caecilian, with eggs and hatchlings.
Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India – unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
