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The Mi Band Will Track Your Workouts And Unlock Your Phone For $13
On Tuesday, popular Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi revealed the Mi Band, a dirt cheap $13 Fitbit that promises the full range of things that most fitness trackers do. That includes counting your steps and...
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The Secret To Designing The Perfect Ramen Noodle
Technically, ramen is just a bowl of broth, noodles, and toppings. Nothing too special. Yet until recently, it was remarkably difficult to get a perfect bowl of ramen in the United States. Now, you can...
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A Guide To Talking Dirty Throughout History
Ever wonder what sex was called in the 1600s, how you might ask for a blowjob during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or how your great-grandfather might have asked for anal sex?Following up on his...
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Foursquare's New Logo Is A Superhero Symbol
Hot on the heels of Airbnb's wildly contentious new logo, social check-in and search service Foursquare has unveiled their own new branding identity. And good news! Far from being the sexual Rorschach...
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What Corporate Logos Would Look Like If You Shrank Them
What would the logos of your favorite companies look like if they were responsively designed? The Responsive Logos project by Joe Harrison first takes the logos of Coca-Cola, Nike, Bang & Olufsen,...
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A Map Of Every Batman Villain Ever
Batman has a truly crazy constabulary of villains. Sure, there are the A-listers, like the Penguin, the Joker, Two-Face, Killer Croc, and Bane. But that's just the start. What about the Penny...
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I Got Drunk And Tried Muji's New Relaxation App. I Would Not Recommend It
Muji--the wonderfully minimalistic Japanese design company with its oh-so-charming products--has released a new app. Called Muji to Sleep, it's an ambient sound app for iPhone that features six...
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The Body Language Of Creative Thinkers
You can tell a lot about a person's mental state just by looking at their body language. Are they laid back, or fidgety? Are they happy, or sad? Are they confident, or shy? But one thing you can't...
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10 Awesome Photos Of People Shooting Out Of Waterslides
What can you tell about a half-naked human blasting out of a flume? Even after looking through the photography of Iowa-based shutterbug Krista Long, I'm not sure. But one thing's for sure: on these hot...
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Hugo Chávez's Handwriting Turned Into "Anti-Imperialist" Font
From the day he became president in 1999 until his untimely death in 2013, Hugo Chávez left an indelible mark upon Venezuela. Practicing what he called the "socialism of the 21st century," Chávez...
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12 Awesomely Isometric Illustrations Of Classic '70s Cars
With rare exceptions like the Nissan Cube, the automobiles of today are designed to be curvy, organic, and sinuous, like a Porsche 911. But that wasn't the case for the cars of the 1970s, which were...
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Amazon Is Experimenting With A New Homepage Design
Amazon has unveiled a new homepage design to select users, placing a new emphasis on the retail giant's biggest brands: the Kindle e-book platform, its Fire lineup of tablets and smartphones, and the...
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This Wireframe Furniture Is Like Software You Can Sit On
What does the chair in your living room look like before it becomes a chair? It looks like a wireframe: a digital skeleton of hidden geometry that only becomes a piece of furniture after it is turned...
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The Handwriting Of 10 Famous Typographers
No one has done more to kill off handwriting than typographers. The fonts and typefaces they have created are the primary non-verbal medium through which we communicate our ideas: on computers, on...
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What Museums Will Look Like After The Apocalypse
Art survives. It survived the burning of Rome, the Dark Ages, and World War II. And--when it comes--it will survive the apocalypse.Or so believe Vitaliy and Elena Vasilieva. The Ukrainian artists have...
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Pop Chart Labs Puts Its Own Spin On The Hip-Hop Vocabulary Flow Chart
For the uninitiated, the assumption is that rappers don't exactly have extensive vocabularies. Sure, old fogeys might say, the average rapper might be equipped with a surprising armory of synonyms for...
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A Pot That Unfolds As Your Plant Grows
At least when I do not own them, plants are living things. They grow, and they need space to do so. But the pots we put our plants in aren't up for the task. Made of clay or plastic, they do not grow...
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The YouTube Of Data Visualization Is Here
When you want to watch web videos, you often go to YouTube. When you want to listen to music from indie artists, you might hit up Soundcloud. But where do you go on the web if you want to see great...
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Can An iPhone App Help A Short Guy Get Tall?
Confession: I'm short.While I may not be a grotesque imp like Tyrion Lannister or Jason Schwartzman, I only stand around 5 feet, 6 inches tall. According to my mother, this can be chalked up to lack of...
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One Man's Mission To Design Better Chopsticks For The Disabled
For the inexperienced Westerner, using chopsticks can be a maddening affair. Imagine how much worse it must be, though, for the disabled: those individuals who might have lost their thumb or fingers in...
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