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Dyskograf, A Music Player That Plays Hand-Encoded Paper Discs
Dyskograf is a music player that plays paper discs (video). Users can encode discs using a marker—different areas of the disc trigger different sounds and…
More Rejected Star Wars Promotional Merchandise Concepts
Texas toy and merchandise designer, website creator and Star Wars fan Jason Geyer (aka “ToyOtter“) was part of a team in 1998 tasked with creating…
New York City Subway Recovery Service Map After King Kong Rampage
Very Small Array imagines what the New York City subway recovery service map might look like after King Kong rampaged through the city in 1933.
Tiny Scale Replica of an 18th Century Tool Chest
Miniaturist William Robertson made this astonishing 1/12th scale replica of an 18th century English Gentleman’s tool chest. The chest’s metal lock actually functions, as do…
Vintage Spoof Advertisements by MAD Magazine
“Sham-Bug’s Convincing Beat-a-Check Soup Kit” Washington-based John (“Jasperdo”) has created a fantastic Flickr set of spoof advertisements that were originally published in print copies of…
Disney Wars, A Disney & Star Wars Musical Mashup by Eclectic Method
The musical mashup video titled Disney Wars (relating to the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm) created by Eclectic Method is a mixture of their custom Star…
Dark Sky, An iOS Weather App for Minute-By-Minute Predictions
Dark Sky is a state-of-the-art weather app for iOS devices that is described as being able to predict “when it will rain or snow —…
How To Avoid Unbearable Facebook & Twitter Bullshit On Election Day
In this War For The White House segment, correspondent Jason Copeland offers wise tips to avoid “unbearable Facebook bullshit on election day.” He tells you…
Koshik the Elephant Learns to Imitate Korean Speech
In the journal Current Biology, (Dr. Angela) Stoeger et al. are reporting that a young male Asian elephant named Koshik has the ability to…
Scientists Revive 1878 Sound Recording from Edison Phonograph
This summer scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory resurrected a 134 year old sound recording from Thomas Edison’s first model of phonograph (video). The recording,…