Ever spilled your coffee or, heaven-forbid, dropped your cellphone into the toilet? Popular Science has up a profile of a product demoed this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will protect your phone from such mishaps. Liquipel covers devices inside and out with a transparent coating thinner than a human hair […]
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The Sacramento Bee says there is a legal way to print money: start typing in a skinnier font. Narrower fonts require less ink, which means you’ll have to replace your pricey ink cartridges less often. Administrators at the University of Wisconsin recently switched the school’s email system to Century Gothic, a move that is expected
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Watch this video as a 9 year old boy – who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store – has the best day of his life. 9 year-old Caine built an elaborate arcade out of cardboard boxes (located in his dad’s used auto parts store). Unfortunately, Caine had no customers.
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Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas: The “big idea” was building the ship itself at full-scale. That was the main attraction. That being said, we also knew we would have to have some kind of “show” on board. So, conceptually, it was to
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On this day in 1962 Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. Telstar 1 relayed its first, and non-public, television pictures—a flag outside Andover Earth Station—to Pleumeur-Bodou on July 11, 1962. Almost two weeks later, on July 23, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, it relayed the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal.
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Jamestown Sun: As the thousands of Sophias and Isabellas and Jacobs and Masons born this past year will learn when they go to pick up their backpacks off the soccer field or sort their duffels in college dorms, their names aren’t as unique as they are. But their Twitter handles will be one of a
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Most of Detroit already looks like some kind of post-armageddon waste land, so why not go all the way and turn it’s blight into a zombie theme park?: Z World Detroit will be a unique and spectacular zombie themed experience park that will transform a virtually neglected section of Detroit, Michigan. Participants will be chased
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