Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos Sometimes something begs for a simple solution. The nearly-ubiquitous USB port is perhaps the technological poster child for an obvious failure to work both ways (right-side-up or upside-down) despite looking perfectly symmetrical on both sides. Thankfully, and finally, this has been tackled from two directions (appropriately enough): one more idealistic, one more realistic, but both ingenious. Ma Yi Xuan is a student designer who has solved the problem in theory, and in reality by UltraTek‘s new Flipper. These answers have been a long time coming. Newsletter Sign Up Get the latest design news! Sign up for our newsletter and get the latest design news. Thanks for subscribing! In the student version, there is a piece on either side of the interior that slides out of the way to reveal a data connection – which half moves depends on what way the plug is placed into the accepting slot.
Water is dangerous. This was found on the newsgroup: rec.humor.funny A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide. " And for plenty of good reasons, since: it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting it is a major component in acid rain it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state accidental inhalation can kill you it contributes to erosion it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical. He feels the conclusion is obvious. Red Eye. 30 Best HTML5 Games to Kill Your Boredom. HTML5 and JavaScript games are getting popular day by day that leads game developers to increase the quantity of HTML5 games on app stores and social networks every day.
Numerous large game developers are taking interest in HTML5 game development and releasing game version for HTML5 platform along with iOS and Android platform. Couple of years ago Flash ruled the multimedia applications, though the importance of Flash can not be overlooked, but arrival of HTML5 has changed the entire scenario of web development. We have seen numerous number of websites are implementing HTML5 instead of Flash, even for games.
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Anyways, strap yourself into the nostalgia train while we take a look back at Apple before it was cool. First up is the Apple Power Mac G4-themed case. The Power Mac G4 was Apple's high-end tower from 1999 until the Power Mac G5 came out in 2003 (though the G4 lived on until mid-2004). The iPhone case pretty much captures the things that made the G4 unique, including its slot-loading drive [Update: it was a Zip drive, according to readers] and the built-in mono speaker--which sadly does not actually work as a speaker with the case. Next up is the iMac G3-inspired case (pictured at top), and of course it’s the one that comes in the most (neon) colors.
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Showcasing the future design direction for Lexus with an emphasis on a driver-focused vehicle, the LF-LC concept will be at the Lexus display through January 22. “The concept we’re showing here in Detroit continues the Lexus design revolution started with the CT and GS,” said Mark Templin, Lexus group vice president and general manager. “The concept hybrid 2+2 liberates the idea of a sport coupe and pushes the boundaries of performance, style and technology.” Fake Name Generator. Collection-of-very-weird-photos18.jpg (JPEG Image, 580x476 pixels) The Most Badass Tombstones Ever from Ace of Base. 1. Looks like we all found a new hero 2. Deal with it, Red Coats 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Forbidden Fruit: Illegal Fruits & Foods. The Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery that Got a Scientist Kicked Out of His Own Lab. A dogmatic theologian? Actually, they're both horrible. At least dogmatic theologists, notwithstanding their other faults, are not hypocrites. That's assumed. That was the correlation I was making. Dogma's only place in this world is in close minded religious zealots numb skulls. Everyone else should have a completely open mind. Yep. "Despite its pretensions to objectivity, science, like any other human institution, places a certain vested interest in its own self-preservation. One of the chief resistances to this progressive penetration of understanding is the dogmatic tendency to adhere to orthodox modes of assigned pattern when confronted with novel details that call for a reordering of understanding. For science this intuitive speculation consists in its assumption of the knowability of the world - in its belief that every event can be correlated with its antecedents in a definite manner exemplifying general principles.
The Dwight Schrute Knows Best Meme. Oh Dwight, you are the best thing to happen to the US version of The Office. The wry second-in-command at the Scranton office of Dunder Mifflin is famous for his obscure knowledge and comically literal interpretation of… well… everything. And so the Dwight Schrute Knows Best meme or simply, the Dwight Schrute meme was born: Enjoy the Dwight Schrute meme? Check out Part 2: The Return Of The Schrute Meme and Schrute Facts.
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These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic or mysterious (or all three) that they definitely qualify as "haunted. " Places like... Aokigahara is a woodland at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan that makes The Blair Witch Project forest look like Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. It probably has something to do with all the dead bodies scattered around. What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. More than 500 fucking people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly started after Seicho Matsumoto published his novel Kuroi Kaiju (Black Sea of Trees) where two of his characters commit suicide there.
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