Jonas Pfiel’s “Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera” sports 36 cameras and contains firmware that stitches their output together to form a global panorama; you throw it into the air and at the top of its arc, it takes a snap and processes it…
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Teens are vain too?
Here’s a disturbing trend: Between 1996 and 2010 the number of teenagers aged 13-19 having elective cosmetic surgery has increased by 548% – from around 14,000 procedures to 76,841 last year, according to American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The vast majority of these surgeries are rhinoplasty, followed by octoplasty (ear-pinning, typically), breast augmentation, asymmetry correction and reduction, and liposuction…
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Today kids think the world revolves around them. They think that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
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Where do passwords go when you die?
I have pretty secure passwords, as much to keep would-be miscreants at bay as to keep my friends and family from finding out just how horrible a life I’m living. But according to a study, a full 11 percent of Brits plan to leave their passwords in their will.
There’s some sense to that, actually…
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Taking off like a rocket.
Popular crowd funding platform Kickstarter has announced that more than 1 million people have backed at least one project, resulting in more than $100 million dollars in pledges.
Kickstarter allows users to post their projects and find funding for them from the Kickstarter community. Everything from the iPod nano watch to indie films have gotten their start on the crowd funding website.
It took Kickstarter just under two-and-a-half years to reach the 1 million backers milestone, according to a plethora of stats the company published on its blog…
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Wunderland Kalkar amusement park
Nothing says fun for all ages like an abandoned nuclear power plant cooling tower! That’s the sentiment behind Wunderland Kalkar amusement park in Germany. Wunderland was formerly known as the Schneller Bruter cooperative energy project–where you’re more likely to encounter cotton candy and motion sickness than Geiger counters and radiation poisoning. (Pics)
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Little Rohan Ajit Kokane whizzed into the Guinness Book of World Records
after performing the furthest ever roller-skating limbo.
He managed to fly under an incredible 20 cars while performing the splits during the stunt in Mumbai, India. Rohan picked up speed before bending down and making his chest parallel to the ground…
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Totally trippy!
Milan design group Carnovsky created what is probably the most psychedelic fun wallpaper you’ll ever see today (without having to ingest anything)…
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Is a spork the best of both worlds?
The Spork is a confusing utensil that in theory has the scooping and liquid-holding properties of a spoon combined with the food-stabbing features of a fork. However, with the spoon part too shallow to hold an acceptable amount of soup, and tines too short and stubby to properly penetrate anything firmer than a canned peach, the spork has become one of the longest standing jokes in culinary history…
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Are you serious about using your jacuzzi? Are you ready to take it to the max, or do you just use it to relax? If the latter, then you’re definitely not ready to participate in the sport of extreme jacuzzing, which involves sitting in a jacuzzi in the most extreme environments. In the past, this band of daredevils has warmed up in a jacuzzi at the top of an Alpine peak. For their latest stunt, they suspended a jacuzzi 39 meters below a bridge in the Switzerland…
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Will he be tossed soon?
If one Florida legislator gets his way, “Big Brother” will no longer trample the freedom of Floridians to enjoy a good old fashioned dwarf tossing contest…
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Hundreds of Chinese twins, triplets and quadruplets dressed in matching outfits celebrated their rare brother-and-sisterhood over the weekend in a country where most people grew up as the only child in the family.
In a bustling park decorated with gigantic red lanterns, the Beijing Eighth Annual Twins Festival featured a parade as well as music and dance performances. At least 500 pairs of twins attended the event on the second day of China’s week-long National Day holidays…
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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