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3D Printed Jewelry Made From Personal GPS Traces
Design technologist Rachel Binx (previously) has launched GPX Jewelry, a clever line of personalized pendants that are custom 3D printed from the customer’s GPS Trace.…

Amazing Cakes That Look Just Like Everyday Objects
Cake artist Luke Vincentini of Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey creates highly realistic baked creations that are made to look like ordinary items. Vincentini’s work includes…

Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Has Officially Launched
Since 2015, we’ve been periodically writing about Spot, a nimble four-legged robot by Boston Dynamics (previously) that can accomplish an amazing variety of tasks, including…

Judas Priest Lead Vocalist Rob Halford Performs With Black Sabbath During the Live At Ozzfest Tour in 2004
In 2004, Rob Halford, the legendary lead vocalist of Judas Priest, temporarily took the place of Ozzy Osbourne as the vocalist for Black Sabbath during…

OK Go Spell Their Names in American Sign Language
As part of the OK Go Sandbox collaboration with the Playful Learning Lab at the University of Saint Thomas, the colorfully clad members of the…

A Feature Length Documentary on New Jersey’s Action Park, ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park’
screenshot via Class Action Park In 2013, we wrote about Seth Porges‘ (previously) excellent series for Mashable about the now defunct yet infamous and often…

Why Time Seems to Go by Faster as You Get Older
Neuroscientist David Eagleman offers a brilliant but slightly head scratching explanation for why time seems to go by much faster as you get older. It…

Four-Legged Robot With Actuated Wheels to Navigate Challenging Terrain With Hybrid Locomotion Abilities
An international team of researchers with Cerberus, which includes ETH Zurich, The Autonomous Robots Lab, The Sierra Nevada Corporation, The HiPer Lab at UC Berkeley…

A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming
In a clip from the PBS documentary, a sleeping octopus began changing colors as she seemingly dreamed as she lay upside down in the water.

Colorful Animal Sculptures Made From Plastic Trash
Environmental artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordallo II, transforms every day trash and refuse into absolutely gorgeous, large scale, brilliantly colored animal sculptures. The artist travels…
