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Random thoughts, topics, and factoids you’ll be happy you read.

When Barbie started questioning the relationship

Posted on July 21, 2011 | Comments Off on When Barbie started questioning the relationship

Allen, He’s Ken’s Buddy.
Barbie: “Allan, where did you get that shirt?” Allan: “Ken, lent it to me. Everything he wears fits me!” Barbie: “Um Allan, we need to talk.”

Allen, He's Ken's Buddy
(via 9GAG)

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This pretty much sums it up

Posted on July 20, 2011 | Comments Off on This pretty much sums it up

Minnesotans love talking about the weather. This pretty much sums it up.

This pretty much sums it up
(via Bits and Pieces)

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1950 Miss Shapely Silhouette Beauty Competition

Posted on July 18, 2011 | 2 comments

Miss Shapely Silhouette Beauty Competition photo from 1950. No faces allowed.
1950 Miss Shapely Silhouette Beauty CompetitionMiss Shapely Silhouette Beauty Competition photo from 1950. No faces allowed. (via Black and WTF)

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How to make a Dean Martin burger

Posted on July 18, 2011 | Comments Off on How to make a Dean Martin burger

How to make a Dean Martin burger

(via Daily Dawdle)

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The Netflix of baby clothes

Posted on July 18, 2011 | Comments Off on The Netflix of baby clothes

 

Plum is a service that offers boutique baby clothes in the sizes you need as a monthly subscription-like service. All you do is send the clothes back when they get too small, and they’ll resend you some new clothes in the sizes you need. Think of them as the Netflix of baby clothes. Plans start at $16 per month. Visit www.plumgear.com to learn more. If you are using this already and want to share your thoughts, please share with us below.

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A collection of painful Parkour fails

Posted on July 15, 2011 | Comments Off on A collection of painful Parkour fails

If you aren’t familiar, Parkour is freerunning in mainly urban landscapes, while climbing and jumping. Runners move along a route, attempting to navigate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, using only their bodies. Skills such as vaulting, rolling, swinging and wall scaling are employed. Here is a collection of video clips that show Parkour wipe-outs. It’s painful.

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Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Comments Off on Minnesota team wins Red Bull’s Creation event

Red Bull’s annual Creation event involved 16 teams from across the country who came together for three days of high stakes innovation with the city as their playground. A secret warehouse in Brooklyn full of tools, materials and hardware hackers were given the task of building a creation designed to move the weight of a person (100lbs) from point A to point B without using any fossil fuels. They had 3 days. The winning team is named 1.21 Jigawatts, and they are from Minneapolis.

They created a massive hamster wheel, wired into a mobile network, given its own phone number that could somehow receive up to 60,000 one-word text messages at a time. Once it received the text message, the hamster wheel would actually roll and perfectly print the word out along the ground. Grand prize – $5k. Pretty cool huh?

Thanks for the great pictures CoolThings.com and MaximumTech.

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Stolen Camera Finder

Posted on July 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Stolen Camera Finder

stolen camera finder

Is your camera lost or missing? Has your camera been stolen? If so, stolencamerafinder can help you find out where it is now.

They claim that they can help to locate a missing camera by searching for photos on the web that have been taken by that camera.

Every photo you take with your digital camera contains hidden information about both the image and the camera such as the make, model and date. This information, called exif data, can also include a unique serial number which identifies your camera. Stolen Camera Finder crawls the internet searching for photos, collecting the serial numbers of the cameras that took them.

I guess pictures taken with phones are not saved the same way and cannot be located this way. I hope they work on this as an extension of their business considering most people are ditching their digital cameras and using their phones exclusively.

(via Bag of Nothing)

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Creating the sensation of textures

Posted on July 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Creating the sensation of textures
E-Sense

image via Senseg

E-Sense is a new touch interface that simulates the sensation of textures and other touch feedback on virtually any surface including touchscreens.  It was created by Finnish tech company Senseg. The core of the technology is the “tixel,” or tactile pixel, a special surface that emits a weak electrical field. When skin is exposed to the electrical field, all manner of textures and sensations can be simulated–sticky or smooth surfaces, even clicks or vibration. This could be used to produce the sensation of touching sand, silk, or water.

With accuracy down to the level of individual tixels, the technology allows for exceptional control of the produced sensation. Tactile feedback can be localized to individual areas enabling multi-touch user experiences. Since it is easily scalable to small and large surfaces with ultra-thin implementation, Senseg E-Sense can be applied to virtually any surface including the device’s cover bringing a new dimension of user experience.

Think of the uses. Awesome.

via The Next Web & Springwise

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How ships are launched

Posted on July 8, 2011 | Comments Off on How ships are launched

How ships are launched.


(via Bits and Pieces)

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