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8 Ridiculously Huge Public Declarations of Love
Marriage proposals are getting ridiculously over the top lately, almost to Hollywood production levels. These love declarations are crazy too, but a lot bigger. So big that you can see some of them...
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12 Pieces of Furniture Made from Random Things
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
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...
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9 Environmentally Friendly Gems Crafted From Cork
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...
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The Craziest Home Desktop Computer Rigs on the Planet
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...
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The Awesome Control Rooms that Run the World
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...
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The 12 Weirdest Hybrid Gadgets of the Last 40 Years
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.
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...
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Hurricane Sandy: The Craziest Before and After Shots
Athena—the season's first major winter storm—is just beginning to hit New York City. This is bad news—the situation is still pretty rough for many residents. Hurricane Sandy really wreaked havoc in...
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23 Ancient Web Sites That Are Still Alive
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...
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The Hostess Snack Innovations We'd Miss the Most
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...
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Apple Just Can't Keep iCloud In the Air
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...
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Nine Videos of Turkey Frying Going Horribly Wrong
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...
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20 Cutaway Drawings That Will Slice Open Your Mind
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...
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Gigantic Monsters With Atomic Hearts
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...
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9 Insanely Clever Sticky Notes
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...
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The 19 Most Badass Spy Planes
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...
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Apple's Mr. Fix-It Eddy Cue Tweets Like a Spambot
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...
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9 Things I'll Miss About Apple Maps
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...
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10 James Bond Gadgets That Actually Exist—And One That Needs To
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...
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