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Wow!
To celebrate its 75th anniversary and its founder’s extraordinary inventiveness, Lacoste invites you to imagine how tennis will be played in the future, 75 years from now. Second video after the jump.
No sign of them drinking beer yet, but they’ve got the fishing down
Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it’s grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish.
Turn your iPhone into a movie theater
Now here’s an iPhone accessory that I could see becoming pretty popular. Honlai Technology just unveiled its concept model of the portable mini projector designed for iPhone during Computex 2008.
Imagine inviting a bunch of friends around one night for a meal, and then inviting them to sit around the Alien Table.
The simplest way to understand hyperbolic space is to think of a lettuce leaf. It’s a two-dimensional surface on which the curvature is bunched up in such a way that it puts a twist on flat Euclidean geometry. For years, mathematicians had a difficult time modeling the space visually until the late 1990s when Daina […]
Size still matters
From now on Pluto won’t just be any dwarf planet, it will be a ‘plutoid.’
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name today after two years of deliberation. The new classification will be used to refer to bright dwarf planets that spend the bulk of their time outside Neptune’s orbit.
Now You Can Really Be Cockeyed.
Brandish reports on what may be an upcoming trend in sunglasses: asymmetry. These “Occhiali” from Italian firm Sugarkane are just regular sunglasses with a permanent half-wink as well as lenses that go dark in sunlight. (As seen in many prescription glasses.)
21 is much better than 3 or 4 leaves
Shigeo Obara, a farmer in Japan’s Iwate prefecture discovered a clover last week with an amazing 21 leaves! The current world record is an 18-leaf clover, which Obara himself grew in 2002.