This cell phone is even handier than yours.
Talk to the hand. Bryan Cera’s fully functional cell phone slips onto your hand like a glove. Put the pinky finger to your mouth and the thumb to your ear. You can watch a demonstration video at the link…
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The replicants knew when feeding time was upon them.
Thursday lunches were always insurance salesmen. Fridays were always leftover bankers.
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Quote of the Day: “I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.” – – Norman Wisdom
Mathematical sweater
Sondra Eklund, a knitter, mathematician, and YA librarian, designed and crafted this sweater. It shows, in colors, the prime factorization of every number between 2 and 100…
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Unbeknownst to David Letterman, the Cleveland Philharmonic spent over 400 hours
practicing to land a 4 minute spot on his show
Quote of the Day: “The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” – – Johnny Carson
Seed of Yggdrasil: nifty 3d-printed sculpture based on Celtic-style knot in Norse mythology
Mythology comes to reality.
Joaquin Baldwin, whose wonderful creative work we’ve featured on Boing Boing before, shares these photos of a lovely 3d-printed sculpture he’s just created. You can purchase your very own, right here. Cat not included.
Joaquin explains…
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When life begin to look like the Matrix, it’s time to pause and drink the wine.
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Quote of the Day: “The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.” – – Paula Poundstone
Pirate Bay’s “Promo Bay” flooded with submissions from hopeful artists
Torrenfreak covers The Pirate Bay’s new “Promo Bay” service, which has been flooded by 5,000+ submissions from artists who want to have their work promoted on The Pirate Bay — mostly musicians, but also writers like Paolo Coelho…
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Moby Hotel or disaster relief housing?
Is this the shape of the future?
If you happen to be curious about what the future home of your grandchildren might look like, take a glance at Remistudio’s concept hotel called The Ark. Russian architect, Alexander Remizov, is the mastermind behind the project, he believes that his floating “slinky,” which can hold up to 10,000 people can have multiple uses, including a safe house for disaster relief. The prototype’s main materials are timber, steel ,and high-strength ETFE plastic and it is built to handle land and/or water…
An Igloo for Book Lovers
Now there’s something an iPad can’t do.
Miler Lagos’s installation at the MagnanMetz Gallery in New York City is entitled simply “Home”. After he finished it, the dome was completely enclosed and self-supporting. Just imagine if you had one of these, consisting entirely of the books that you have read over the course of your life…
Paper iPhones as burnt offerings for the dead
The dead want an iPhone?
Apple’s iPhone is so popular in China that even the dead want one! It’s the latest trend in burnt paper offering, a distinctly Chinese tradition where Hell Bank Notes, and paper items resembling cars, luxury villas, computers and so on, are burnt to send to the deceased…
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Two young sweat shop workers on a smoke break,
huddled under an umbrella to talk rainbows and politics.
Quote of the Day: “I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” – – Robert Benchley
Now you can turn yourself into a Batman Action Figure
Most of our childhoods were spent alternatingly dressing up like superheroes and playing with action figures in their likeness. Now you can combine the two by actually getting your own head on the body of your favorite superhero, like Batman or Superman, on one of these custom action figures.
All you’ve got to do is send Personalised Superhero Action Figures two photos of yourself—one portrait and one profile—and the company will use them to make your noggin into an action figure…
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