Archive | August, 2010

Do You Remember These Vintage Toys?

Posted on 28 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Before Nintendo, Playstation and X-box existed, children, especially boys, were playing with construction toys. Some of them that were the most popular are The Erector Set (change the name to Meccano) that was first produced in 1913. The toy had a whole collection of screws, bolts, metal beams, nuts, gears, and even electric motors. Other […]

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Awesome Photomontages Without Photoshop

Posted on 26 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Today almost no one gets impressed by photomontages, and we can all thank Photoshop for that. A lot of people can already use that photo program and it is just not so shocking to see a montage anymore unless it looks super realistic. But something that is impressing are these photomontages were made and published […]

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Shangai Represented Like a Detailed Scale Model

Posted on 24 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Probably the world’s largest scale model of a city is this one of Shangai, and is to be found in the Shangai Urban Planning Museum on the third floor. Shangai is China’s most populated city, and one of the country’s most important cities, also known as the “Pars of the East”. It serves as cultural, […]

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Beautiful Underwater Caves in Bahamas Blue Holes

Posted on 23 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Bahamas – known for its tropical islands, miles upon miles of sandy beaches, clear warm water and coral reefs. But it hides a little secret called the “blue holes” that are located under the water and look like beautiful blue vertical caves. Bahamas has quite a few blue holes that make up a whole […]

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Probably The Worst Spider Bite Ever

Posted on 15 August 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

Most people do fear these little creatures called spiders even if some of them are harmful. Still there are several that are dangerous, and one of them is the hobo spider from North America, also known as Tegenaria Agrestis, that belongs to the group of funnel web spiders. What’s special about this kind of spiders […]

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Playing With Electricity Thanks To Nikola Tesla

Posted on 14 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Most people have heard about the legend and genius Nikola Tesla. Some of the things he invented were X-ray, the radio, microwave oven, electron microscope, neon lights, speedometer, and he was the first to design the hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls. A lot of his inventions were unfortunately credited by others, and his biggest […]

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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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Café With Fishes Swimming Through Pipelines

Posted on 12 August 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

Aquariums have always been a popular item, whether it’s for decoration or just for “pet purposes”. They are to be found in apartments, restaurants, hotels, malls and several other places, they are joyful and pretty to the eye, and come mostly in a square shape, but there are exceptions. This guy who owns a café […]

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Skeleton of The Snakes

Posted on 11 August 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

They are not alive and they cannot attack you but still they are scary as hell and amazing to observe. The backbone of the snakes is made up of many vertebrae attached to ribs. Humans have around 24 ribs and 33 vertebrae but snakes can have from 100 up to 400 vertebrae with many ribs […]

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Famous Cartoon Characters In a Quite Unusual Form

Posted on 10 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

Hyungkoo Lee has come up with the idea to represent famous cartoon characters as skeletons. He wanted to figure out how the anatomy of the cartoons would look like if they were alive, and the materials used to manage to create this are some synthetic materials and surprisingly enough real animal bones. He called his […]

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