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8 Ridiculously Huge Public Declarations of Love

October 4, 2012, 1:00 pm
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12 Pieces of Furniture Made from Random Things

October 8, 2012, 10:00 am
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Furniture is like Facebook. Or something. But it can also be like other things—like anything you want it to be, actually. Here are some pieces of furniture made from just about anything. More »
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The Way Kids Used Machines 100 Years Ago Is Shocking Compared to Today

October 9, 2012, 10:40 am
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Kids these days, swiping and tapping away at iPads, have absolutely no idea how to fix a mechanical spindle. But until around the Great Depression, children were free to work in factories alongside adults. More »
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9 Environmentally Friendly Gems Crafted From Cork

October 15, 2012, 12:20 pm
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Cork is a wonderful substance. It's light, it's durable, it's sustainable, and, most importantly, it's versatile. Designers have taken notice of this material (much like they have bamboo), and have begun working cork into contemporary design trends. Here are nine ingenious objects forged from cork. More »
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The Craziest Home Desktop Computer Rigs on the Planet

October 18, 2012, 8:00 am
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Desktop computing may be dying, besieged by ultrabooks and tablets, but that doesn't mean people aren't still loving their crazy desktop setups. Here are the very best ones—located in the homes of artists, musicians, engineers, mad gamers and people who just love computers—compiled from readers' submissions and hours of searching. More »
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The Awesome Control Rooms that Run the World

October 26, 2012, 11:00 am
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Every day, an army of computers and human operators toil in control rooms, providing electricity to a city, guiding planes across the sky, or searching for the Higgs-Boson. These rooms are all extremely important, whether they're making breakthrough discoveries or just keeping the lights on. More »
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The 12 Weirdest Hybrid Gadgets of the Last 40 Years

October 26, 2012, 1:27 pm
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The Microsoft Surface arrives today. It's been touted as the perfect compromise between laptop and tablet. (From what we can tell, that's not quite the case.) More »
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Every Single Microsoft Device. Ever.

November 5, 2012, 10:50 am
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With the release of Surface, Microsoft is taking a serious dive into the wide world of hardware production. But this isn't the first time Microsoft has gone down that road. In fact, Redmond has racked up a pretty impressive catalogue of devices. Here's a list of all of them. More »
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Hurricane Sandy: The Craziest Before and After Shots

November 7, 2012, 1:20 pm
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23 Ancient Web Sites That Are Still Alive

November 15, 2012, 12:05 pm
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Do you know that Altavista, the omnipotent web search platform before Google awakened, is still online? Okay, it's integrated into Yahoo, but the domain and the interface is up and running. Just like HotBot! Anyone remember HotBot? And Lycos? WebCrawler? More »
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The Hostess Snack Innovations We'd Miss the Most

November 16, 2012, 9:00 am
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A moment of silence please. Hostess is going out of business. The 82-year-old maker of innovative packaged snacks is no more. Its assets will be liquidated and its recipes sold off to junk food collectors and disaster prep investors, and lesser brands like Little Debbie and Entenmann's must take up the slack in honor of their fallen comrade and friendly competitor. More »
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Apple Just Can't Keep iCloud In the Air

November 19, 2012, 12:37 pm
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Today, iTunes Match went down. Yesterday, it was iMessage and FaceTime. Since launching iCloud to the public on October 12th, 2011, Apple just hasn't been able to keep its cloud-based services airborne. More »
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Nine Videos of Turkey Frying Going Horribly Wrong

November 22, 2012, 7:00 am
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Every family has a Thanksgiving tradition. Some do potluck, some oven roast their bird, and some just dunk them in a vat of boiling oil. Unfortunately, that latter tradition also forebears another time-honored holiday repast—structural fires. Here are some of the most destructively-impressive turkey tragedies of Thanksgivings past.
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20 Cutaway Drawings That Will Slice Open Your Mind

November 27, 2012, 9:40 am
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When I was a child I loved to bury myself in the centerfold cutaway illustrations of the monthly scientific magazines my father subscribed to for me. Cars, tractors, ships, trains, engines—I loved every tiny detail. I loved pretending I was one of the tiny men in the pictures. More »
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Gigantic Monsters With Atomic Hearts

December 1, 2012, 10:00 am
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Foot-power might be enough to get you across the house, and gas packs enough punch to get you across the country by car, bus, or plane. Coal had its time to reign as the king of the rails, and electricity is poised to take the world by storm. But when you've got a real job to do, when you've got to move mountains and make the sky shake, there's only one place to turn: that basic force of universal power that man has bent to his whim. We're talking atomic power, baby. And nothing beats it. Here are some monsters that use it to its fullest. More »
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9 Insanely Clever Sticky Notes

December 3, 2012, 2:40 pm
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When you're trapped in a boring nine-to-five job you'll embrace anything that helps make the work week slightly less awful. Colorful staplers, video games on your calculator, and sticky notes shaped like anything and everything but a boring yellow square. Here's some of the best. More »
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The 19 Most Badass Spy Planes

December 5, 2012, 6:00 am
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There is little in the world that can match the simultaneous awesomeness and mystery of a spy plane. These are the paragon of modern innovation, yet largely pass invisible above us. They decide battles and wars, yet only a few lucky soldiers get to see them. Blah blah blah words. Let's look at some incredible machinery. More »
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Apple's Mr. Fix-It Eddy Cue Tweets Like a Spambot

December 10, 2012, 12:05 pm
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Eddy Cue, Apple's SVP for Internet software in services has been a very visible member of the Apple team recently as the man tapped by Tim Cook to pick up the pieces of the Apple Maps disaster. He might be Apple's Mr. Fix-It, but somebody needs to help this guy with his Twitter. Cue doesn't tweet often, but when he does, it's hard to tell him apart from a Spambot. More »
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9 Things I'll Miss About Apple Maps

December 13, 2012, 6:03 am
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Did you hear? Google Maps is back in the App Store, which means we can finally officially pretend that whole Apple Maps disaster never happened. Still, there are a few things I'm going to miss about Apple's misguided trainwreck. More »
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10 James Bond Gadgets That Actually Exist—And One That Needs To

December 17, 2012, 10:20 am
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There have been 23 Bond movies made In the past 50 years—full of lethal, handy, futuristic, awesome, and sometimes funny gadgets. Most are still too fantastic to be real, but some have transcended the silver screen to become naturalized residents of the Real World. These are our favorites. More »
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