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3-D Printed Shoes: Quite the Feet

You can make anything from 3-D printing, from impossibly complex lamps to chain-mail bags to entire buildings. So it's actually kind of surprising that 3-D printed shoes aren't more common. Maybe someday soon: For her master's ...READ»

Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto's ...READ»

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Cardboard Record Sleeve Turns Into Record Player

Good news for anyone who has old records but no record player: you can make your own record player pretty easily--just add cardboard. Griffiths, Gibson and Ramsay Productions (GGRP), a Vancouver-based sound design studio, exploited ...READ»

Nation's Jews Abandon Facebook and Twitter, One Day Per Week, Starting...Now

Man, Shabbat is old. Like, thousands of years old. No offense to whoever created it, but it's painfully outdated. In response, the day of rest has been rebranded as the Day of Unplugging.READ»

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FCC's Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias

A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we've got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on Android, iPhone and Web platforms, ...READ»

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Friday Fun: QR Code Cupcakes

Geekiness never tasted so sweet.READ»

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DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This

A French animator's soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator.READ»

Open Source Washing Machine Project Rethinks Clothes-Washing

Most of us don't think about the cultural context of our washing machines--we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don't ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on the planet wash clothes by hand, ...READ»

How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So

If you assume a desktop computer's a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it's hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be ...READ»

Nintendo DS in Classrooms to Help Japanese Schoolkids Find the Square Root of Mario

Ninteno's guru Shigeru Miyamoto has just revealed that Nintendo might be aiming at a surprising new market for its games consoles: Schools. With all the controversy about distractions and violence, is this sensible? Miyamoto's ...READ»

Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail

A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to "mend" immigration. It's part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone's social security cards ...READ»

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WANTED: Bodum's Bistro Kitchen Appliances

Bodum, enablers of my coffee addiction and arbiters of clean design, have a new line coming out--and I want it. All of it.READ»

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Now Screening: Spike Jonze's New Film for Absolut

Jonze's experimental, branded short film is out now on the web, and here's an interview with its executive producers.READ»

Eye Candy: British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 Is Part Cleopatra Jones, Part Pinhead

Unlike middling entries from the U.S. and Canada, Thomas Heatherwick's British pavilion rocks.READ»

Renaming Digital Piracy: A Smokescreen to Hide Movie's True Worth?

"Oh ar, oi'm a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!"...does that sound sexy to you? Does it bring visions of a be-hatted Johnny Depp to mind? According to some content providers it might, and they want to rename online piracy. Losers.This ...READ»