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Yesterday at a special event in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced Surface, their all new new tablet computer running Windows 8. The device has 10.6″…

While on my annual Vashon Island retreat, I stopped by locally owned fast food restaurant Zoomies to fulfill my once-a-year quota for fried clams. I…

Bibliomulas (book mules) are mule-borne bookmobiles that transport books to remote villages in Venezuela. The project is by the University of Momboy in Venezuela. For…

These beautiful curved-crease sculptures are by father-son duo Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine. The sculptures are self-folding origami—creases in the paper cause the sculptures to…

Wonder Sauna Long Hot Pants An alert for the “Health-Watchers of America”: No matter whether you choose to don a long or short one-piece pair…

Swedish design studio Bedow created this wonderful world map out of 3,000 coins from around the world. Each continent is made up of coins from…

The Culinary Adventures of Baron Ambrosia is a new and wonderfully eclectic Cooking Channel show hosted by Chef Baron Ambrosia ( Justin Fornal) that…

Corn syrup and food dye are mixed and then unmixed by this apparatus in a demonstration of laminar flow on New Scientist. The apparatus was…

ThinkGeek has introduced Japanese Nanotechnology Pet Beds, silver-y shark-shaped pet beds for big and small pets. Animals enter and exit through the shark’s large toothy…

Swedish designer Viktor Hertz created this series of pictographic rock band posters. He is pre-selling the posters on FundedByMe. We’ve written previously about Hertz’s clever…