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The Amazing Falkirk Wheel Of Scotland

Posted on 13 December 2011 in: Places, Technology

How is it possible to transport a huge boat from one water level to another much higher one? Scotland has the answer; a gigantic wheel that lifts boats. We are talking about the famous Falkirk Wheel that is an engineering landmark for Scotland. It opened in 2002 and is connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal [...]

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Colorful Retro Paper Gadgets

Posted on 29 September 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

These colorful creations are made by the duo Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann who really know how to work with Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann paper. Their paper sculptures are representing cool retro stuff like vintage cameras, floppy disks and old cellphones. Their art work screams the 90′s, and we love it, especially if you [...]

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Astrolabe – An Ancient Computer From The Past

Posted on 13 September 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

They say it’s the oldest computer ever. Well, I wouldn’t actually say computer, but there may be some similarities. I’m talking about the astrolabe. It’s basically an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. It was mainly used to locate and predict the positions of the sun, the moon, planets, and stars. Visually [...]

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Stunning Aeiral Map Of Twitter And Flickr Users Activity Around The Globe

Posted on 30 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Without reading any kind of description you would believe that these maps are showing the continents at night, but that is not the case. The lights are in red/orange, blue and white, and they are showing Twitter and Flickr activity. Pretty crazy, right? So you can easily see who is the most active of the [...]

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Unique Handmade Russian Ring

Posted on 23 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

The decorative ornament that you put on your finger, also known as a ring, is probably something that is not so easy to make. It’s detailed work that you need to have patience with, as well as enough skills. This Russian home made ring looks even more difficult to make than other random ones that [...]

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The Biggest Landfill Of E-Waste In Ghana

Posted on 26 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

When you throw away your old computer or laptop, do you ever think where it’s going? Ghana, India, Vietnam, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. It’s awful, but millions of tons of electronic waste from first world countries goes every year to these countries, mainly to Ghana. People there has therefore begun with illegal e-waste trade. 3000 [...]

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Rusty Russian Jet Fighters’ Days Are Over

Posted on 18 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

If you are into old jet fighters, especially the old Soviet ones you will be amazed by the fact that there is a big field near Moscow that holds several of them. Of course they’re not in use any more, but they still look powerful. As you may notice some of their parts are missing, [...]

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Totally Weird Steampunk Monocles

Posted on 23 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Monocles were really popular back in the 1890′s when this kind of eye wear was associated with rich upper-class men and capitalists. It was a pretty simple glass that they put in front of their eye, but now steampunk lovers have made their own interpretation of the monocle. It’s not as simple as the usual [...]

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LEGO Brick Photo Camera

Posted on 03 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Artist Cary Norton thought of something he thought was crazy one day; he wanted to built a camera out of Lego bricks. And guess what? He eventually built one. First he started by building a model using a Lego builder application on his PC, but he wanted the real thing, so he started building with [...]

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Stunning Alien vs. Predator Metal Sculptures

Posted on 21 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

It’s starting to get crazy how people are making sculptures out of anything. There are almost no creative materials left to use, especially all the ones that belongs to the metal category. Speaking of that here are some very good Alien vs. Predator sculptures made of car parts. Now for those who don’t know what [...]

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Mini Replica Of Ferrari F40 With Smallest Key Ever

Posted on 15 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Miniature stuff has been featured on this blog before, like for example the delicious mini dishes that will make your mouth fill with water,or maybe the smallest postal service office in the world. Now someone has got a crazy idea to create a mini replica of a Ferrari F40.It is eight times smaller than the [...]

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Train Sets Make Letters

Posted on 26 March 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Who said adults couldn’t have fun with train sets? This Norway-based graphic designer Ludvig Bruneau Rossow makes typography out of train sets. He puts the train set in different ways so it looks like letters. In his opinion design should have a function, and not just appear as decoration, and he varies from technical to [...]

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Hard drive parts turn into fun toys

Posted on 12 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Old computers don’t have to be thrown away. You can use their parts to be creative and make several cool stuff. The staff members of the Russian computer and IT store “Vist” have taken old hard drive parts and put it together to several funny and cute toys. A car and something that looks like [...]

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PC Workstation Build Into An Old and Classic Piano

Posted on 08 February 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Is it an option to play a classic music by yourself or to listen in on your PC. For this guy it is. This is one of the biggest PC case modifications that I ever saw. It is truly a PC work station, build into a wooden, stylish and classic piano. All what you need [...]

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Steampunk Pen – A Pen That Can Do It All

Posted on 16 January 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

This pen has to be the most amazing pen ever. It looks like a gun with a bronze/gold color. To be more precise it is a steampunk pen that looks like the Swiss knife, and it has a lot of functions. It can be a flashlight, a pen of course, a flash drive, a spoon, [...]

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Make a Clock Out Of Broken CD-ROM

Posted on 06 January 2011 in: Featured Articles, Technology

If you have one broken CD-ROM drive here is what you can do with it. Try to make your own personal clock, it is cool and if you are geek it may be perfect for your room.

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A Peek Inside Fighter Jet Cockpits

Posted on 07 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Have you ever wonder how fighter jets looks inside? Now you have a chance to take a look at some of them, so many buttons and who knows which gadgets they have.

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Rubberbot – Robot Made Out Of Rubber

Posted on 12 October 2010 in: Featured Articles, Technology

The definition of robot is “an automatically guided machine which is able to do tasks on its own, almost always due to electronically-programmed instructions”. Well, looking at these rubberbots, it is almost a fact that they can do neither. They are tiny robots made out of rubber using a laser machine and glue. It’s pretty [...]

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Batmobile Golf Cart

Posted on 18 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Batman seems to be pretty active guy who also likes to play some golf when he is not occupied with chasing for Joker. But, when you are Batman then you have to keep your image and you cannot go to golf fields with usual golf cart. This one looks more like “Yo Dawg Golf Cart” [...]

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Awesome Custom Made R2-D2 PC Case Mod

Posted on 13 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, Technology

Most lovable robot from Star Wars series, a R2-D2 (Artoo or R2 for short) can be turned into a awesome PC mod case. This PC case mod is made for “Science Fiction Case Mod Contest” by Frenki Janse . Best part about it was that the budget for this was low and Frenki spent only [...]

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