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Red Bull Kluge, An Athlete-Powered Rube Goldberg Machine
Kluge: /Klooj/ noun, slang – A witty, yet inelegant solution that succeeds in performing a particular task. Red Bull is back again to show up…
Sandisk Cruzer Fit, A Tiny 32 GB USB Flash Drive the Size of a Dime
The Cruzer Fit USB Flash Drive by Sandisk crams 32 GB into a drive the size of a dime. The largest part of the drive…
Who’s Who & What’s What in the Books of Dr. Seuss
Who’s Who & What’s What in the Books of Dr. Seuss is an index from A (Letter of the alphabet central to a question–in The…
Urine Powered Generator at Maker Faire Africa
photo by Eric Hersman At last week’s Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, four girls presented an ingenious urine powered generator. The system generates six…
Two Kittens Watching Tennis
Funny cats and nice fish uploaded a video that shows two of the adorable Ninja Kittens watching a tennis match and getting very much into…
3D Printer Photo Booth Makes Figurines Instead of Photos
Tokyo’s stylish Harajuku district will soon be home to an unusual pop-up photo booth—customers will walk away not with photos, but with 3D printed figurines…
A Series of Bets That You Will Never Lose
British psychology professor, author, and performer Richard Wiseman created a video that showed 10 Bets You Will Never Lose and (due to the popularity) has…
Rolling Jubilee: Campaign to Buy Debt, Then Abolish It
Rolling Jubilee an intriguing campaign to raise funds to buy debt, with the intention of abolishing the debt rather than collecting it (video). The Jubilee…
MTV Explains Why They Don’t Play Music Videos Anymore
California comedy team Brian Firenzi and Maria Del Carmen of 5secondfilms pose as both a fake MTV programming head named Micheal Destiny (Brian) and mid-20s…
San Francisco’s Roxie Theater Raising Funds on Kickstarter
San Francisco’s Roxie Theater, one of the city’s last remaining independent movie theaters, is turning to Kickstarter to help fund much needed upgrades and the…