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Trebuchet Your Boss Right In His Stupid Face With These Desktop Siege Engines
The weapons of mass destruction of the Middle Ages were siege engines. As imagined by the minds of historic geniuses like Archimedes and Leonardo Da Vinci, siege engineers were massive machines that...
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Google's fleets of ladybug-like Street View cars are a common site in the world's greatest cities, but how do you drive through a city without streets? In Venice, Google has found a way, strapping its...
View ArticleThe Biggest Building In The Universe
The amount of energy that the sun emits every second is nearly unfathomable. In just one second, the sun releases 4 decillion (or 4 million billion billion billion) ergs worth of energy, enough to...
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How Sony Is Getting Gamers To Design The Next Everquest For Them
When Second Life launched in mid-2003, it was hailed as the fulfillment of the cyberspace siren song tech-futurists like William Gibson and Neil Stephenson had been chanting for decades: a virtual...
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If Pop-Up Books Came To Life, They'd Look Like This
Imagine a beautiful pop-up book of fairies and wood elves. Now, imagine those three-dimensional figures suddenly coming to life, standing up, and walking off the page. This is the effect created by...
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The PlayStation 4 Is Stuck In The Past
Late last year, I spent a surreal week in Florida driving around the Orlando-area highways in a Ford Fiat, a tiny automobile with the transmission of a wind-up car. As a wall of traffic threatened to...
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This Painting Of The Danish Royal Family Will Steal Your Soul
Landing a commission to paint the portrait of a royal family is a blessing that is bestowed upon few artists. It is an important honor that not only bestows the crown's blessing upon an artist,...
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Why Airline Food Sucks
As long as passengers have been flying, they've been disappointed by the quality of in-flight meals. But why? After 90 years of commercial air flight, why haven't airlines been able to design menus...
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Insane Makeup Turns Models Into 2-D Paintings Of Famous Artists
When we think of face painting, we usually think of clowns, county fairs and this turtle-loving zombie kid. We certainly tend not to respect it as an art: instead, it's considered a dabbling at best,...
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Wage Star Wars In Your Kitchen With Death Star Linoleum
Happy Black Friday! We're taking the day to republish some of our most popular Wanted posts of the year. For a complete roundup, go here.--Eds. According to the best estimates out there, building your...
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You Won't Believe These Shots Of Snowflakes Were Taken With An Ordinary Cam
Snowflakes teach us many lessons when we're children. It teaches us about the fractal beauty that lies beneath all things; it teaches us about uniqueness, patterns, and infinity. But for some reason,...
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An iPhone App That Is Like Instagram For Designers
Instagram's greatest accomplishment was popularizing digital photography in the same way that Polaroid popularized analog. Now, a new app is hoping to do the same thing for design. Meet Fleck, the...
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Infographic: The Wealthiest ZIP Codes In America
If you've ever been to a baseball, basketball, or football game, you've probably looked up at the skyboxes above and wondered what goes on in them. Unless you're rich enough to afford one, you'll...
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A Monochrome Lego Set To Teach Tomorrow's Architects
The first thing you'll notice about the Lego Architecture Studio is that it's white. There are no colors, no shades, no pigments, no hues here. It is as white as a piece of paper, a glass of milk, a...
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Is That An American Apparel Ad Or A Balthus Painting?
In a 1968 retrospective of his work at the Tate Gallery, the Polish-French modern artist Balthus once prepared a biography for his influential paintings that read: "Balthus is a painter of whom nothing...
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There Is A 30-Foot-Tall Eyeball In Downtown Dallas
Take a pleasant stroll through the gardens of Dallas's five-star Joule Hotel, and you will quickly perambulate upon a very odd sight: a 30-foot-tall eyeball that is just sort of hanging out. It might...
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The Ultimate Guide To Your Toolbox
The carnage of Black Friday is now over, and as you try to assemble some of those purchases, your toolbox likely runneth over with tiny metal allen wrenches. But what if you need a beefier tool for the...
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This Electric Scooter Collapses To Carry-On Size
Depending on whom you ask, transportation's so-called "last mile" problem--how you get from your car to where you're going while guaranteeing your feet never actually touch the ground--is either an...
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The Insanity Of Bitcoin, Explained
If you've been paying attention to the news, you might have heard that digital currency Bitcoin is currently the talk of Wall Street after skyrocketing in value to trade at over $1,000. That's no mean...
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A Coffee Maker That Looks Like It Comes From A Chemistry Lab
Perhaps it's the late nights at the lab, or just the fact that the ubiquitous glassware is so well suited for double duty brewing up a cup of joe, but chemistry and coffee have always seemed to go hand...
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