Brain Trip: Brain wave reading game gives museum visitors a surreal trip

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‘Brain Trip’

The Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is offering an additional experience for its ‘Surreal Worlds’ exhibition that monitors visitors’ brain waves. Interactive agency Rhinofly developed the interactive installation ‘Brain Trip’, which enriches visitors’ trip and enables them to experience surrealism in an innovative way. (Video)

 

 

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Inspiring a Better World Ahead, the Museum of Future Inventions

Futurist Thomas Frey: What images come to mind when you think about the future? Do you think about near-term futures with 3D printers, driverless cars, and robotics, or do you think about more distant futures of space travel, human cloning, and teleportation devices?

 

 

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MoMath – math museum is first of its kind in North America

The National Museum of Math

A new museum has opened in the U.S. that will quench your thirst for patterns, fractals and puzzles galore. The National Museum of Math opened in New York City last week; and it’s a good thing too because we cannot wait any longer. (Pics)

 

 

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The Swimming Pool that Turned into a Museum

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Have you ever been to a museum swimming pool?

The city of Lille, France had a beautiful municipal swimming pool. It was an Art Deco masterpiece built between 1927 and 1932 by the architect Albert Baert. But over the years, the support underneath the pool was weakened, and it was declared unsafe in 1985. Instead of abandoning the building, the city undertook an extensive renovation project, turning the facility into a museum called the La Piscine-Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent. The locals just call it La Piscine…

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Vintage Boom Box Museum

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A Classic Music Device

Department stores such as Sears and K-Mart began using the boom box in their marketing as early as 1983. Merriam-Webster pins it at 1981, and defines the boom box as ‘a large portable radio and often tape player with two attached speakers.’

As the masses began to embrace this assemblage of electronics gadgets as an indespensible form of portable entertainment, it became an icon of popular culture…

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Meet the Thermometer Man

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Thermometer Man with his collection

Thermometer Man is the perfect name for the 83-year-old Richard T. Porter. He has the biggest collection of thermometers, almost 5000 in different shapes and sizes. Before losing his daughter to a brain tumor he promised her to do something with his collection, and therefore he opened The Porter Thermometer Museum in the small village where he lives; Onset in Wareham Massachusetts…

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Man Claims Aliens Are Pelting His Home

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One of the 6 meteorites that hit the home of Radiovje Lajic
A Bosnian man whose house has been hit six times by meteorites claims aliens are targetting him. The white-hot rocks have hammered Radivoje Lajic’s house repeatedly since 2007, forcing him to reinforce the roof of his Gornji Lajici home with a steel girder.

Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks he has produced are meteorites, but Lajic believes their trajectory is no accident, claiming: “I am obviously being targeted by aliens…”

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New Exhibit Of Bust-Boosting Bra Dates Back To The 1800s

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Breast enhancer: The padded bra, which will be on display at the Science Museum on Wednesday, was designed and made in Europe in around 1880

Breast enhancer: The padded bra, which will be on display at the Science Museum on Wednesday, was designed and made in Europe in around 1880

The bra did not become commonplace until 1907, when it featured in Vogue. Until then, it would have been a luxury item only available to wealthier women, and made-to-measure.

Cup sizes as we know them, denoted by letter, were not introduced until the 1930s in the U.S.

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Las Vegas Museum Rivalry Pitches Murdered Mobster’s Daughter Against Mayor Who Represented Suspected Killer

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Sam Giancana, the murdered mobster whose daughter is backing the Las Vegas Mob Experience.

By the time you discover whether you’ve been tapped for the path to unquestioned respect and cash handouts, or for a bullet through the brain, it will be too late.  But unlike the real gangsters, visitors to the Las Vegas Mob Experience will get a second chance to discover what led them down the path to being “made” as a full member of the mafia, or getting “whacked”.

 

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Vacuum Cleaner Museum Opens

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What a sucker selection!

Some people collect stamps, but James Brown of Nottingham collects vacuum cleaners. In fact, “Mr. Vacuum Cleaner” has so many of them that he opened a museum:

He was eight, and desperate for a cleaner of his own, when he spotted a red Goblin 800 lying on a rubbish dump. “I took it home, wiped all the muck off it, plugged it in, and it worked,” he sighs.

“That was one of the most fantastic moments of my life…”

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