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DIY Desk-Embedded USB Hub Puts USB Ports at Your Fingertips. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. <map name="admap71632" id="admap71632"><area href=" shape="rect" coords="0,0,728,90" title="" alt="" target="_blank" /></map><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:728px;border-style:none;background-color:#ffffff;"><tr><td><img src=" style="width:728px;height:90px;border-style:none;" usemap="#admap71632" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;" colspan="1"><center><a style="font-size:10px;color:#0000ff;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;font-family:Tahoma, verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-transform: none;letter-spacing:normal;text-shadow:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:normal;" href=" target="_blank">Ads by Project Wonderful!

Your ad here, right now: $0</a></center></td></tr></table> Archives Contact Forum Store! February 17, 2011 Whee! Luminous Mushroom Night Light. I was originally going to use part of a birch branch I cut from our tree (it had been partly rotted). Once I started sawing the rotten part off, two spiders and an earwig crawled out and I lost my nerve. I considered my other options. A smooth, decaying stick I found in the strawberry bed seemed aesthetically pleasing... but all the cracks almost guaranteed lots of bugs. The maple branch I'd removed from our tree a few weeks ago was almost certain to have very few things that might crawl out and bite me, but it just wasn't very interesting to look at. Finally, I decided on the root end of some evergreen bushes I recently ripped up. I then drilled holes where I thought mushrooms should go. I decided to put the wiring etc in the back, rather than hollowing out part of the log.

Funny Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry Comedy Sketch! 'Your Name, Sir?'. Imeüble 2.5 dimension shelf system by Bjørn Jørund Blikstad. Second and a Half Dimension Shelves This project goes by the name “Imeüble” and it’s a shelving system that accesses not just your eyeballs and book-storing hands, it works with your mind to help you store information the same way you learn to associate words to their meanings! The easiest comparison is one the designer uses: when you read the word “cornfield,” you imagine a field full of corn, not the word “cornfield.” In that the shelf appears to be 2D but is actually 3D, this whole system works in the same environment of learning. Confused? It’s really quite simple and wonderful.

In this fabulous work of associations, designer Bjørn Jørund Blikstad hopes to inspire you to take another look at what storing items on these shelves really means. Fabulovely! Designer: Bjørn Jørund Blikstad. Spezify. Search results for watch. Sadebayauction1.png (PNG Image, 1263x845 pixels) - Scaled (64. Bp6.jpg (JPEG Image, 990x648 pixels) - Scaled (83. AbcDARIAN – Text Reader Device by Sandra Brügmann. Never Too Late to Learn How to Read Adult illiteracy comes with social stigmas that prevent many people from trying to learn how to read.

The abcDARIAN is designed to discreetly help them achieve their goals. The two-sided, touch enabled device is transparent. You skim over written matter and it phonetically reads it out into an earpiece. Designer: Sandra Brügmann. Average Faces From Around The World. Added on Feb 08, 2011 / Category : StrangeNews / 228 Comments Finding the average face of people across the world was a tough job but someone had to do it.

This guy basically takes a thousands and thousands images of everyday people from any city and the software makes an 'average' of the people, giving one final portrait. Take a look at this amazing project called "World of Facial Averages" If you like this article, Share it with the world: 201011191019.jpg (JPEG Image, 442x700 pixels) - Scaled (73%)

What The ‘New Heart of Wall Street’ Looks Like « Data Center Knowledge. The cages housing customer equipment inside an Equinix data center. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The New York Times devoted more than 3,000 words Sunday to a feature story on the rise of high-speed trading operations. But the Times offered no visuals of any of the facilities housing the servers supporting the surge in electronic trading. So here’s a glimpse inside the data centers powering the “new heart of Wall Street.” The photo above provides a look at the inside of a data center operated by Equinix, the company that runs the “New York Four” facility in Secaucus described by the Times as a “vast technological sanctum.”

“While this ‘Tron’ landscape is dominated by the titans of Wall Street, it affects nearly everyone who owns shares of stock or mutual funds, or who has a stake in a pension fund or works for a public company,” The Times writes. Like most major financial companies, Direct Edge uses more than one data center provider. Driscoll Middle School Trick Play. Energy Lock by Young Suk Kim. A More Powerful Lock Not even a lightsaber could bust it. This is the “Energy Lock” from designer Young Suk Kim. Alas it is not the kind of lock you keep your bike secure with, instead it is for your plug-in objects around the house. This project goes by the name “Energy Lock,” and it’s about to totally change the way you plug in your coffee maker at night.

Before we get to flipping out: the plug you see isn’t from the USA. Next, take a look at how simple this is. Designer: Young-suk Kim. Learn the Science Behind Glow Sticks by Making Your Own. Shiba inu white pupy 【超可愛い】【初公開】白柴くもくんの鳴き声. Earth View. Moogaloop.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) 99 Foot Rope Swing. Thrift Toothpaste Package Design by GUO Lili. In Case Of Emergency Cut Toothpaste! I thought I was being a miser, but in all honesty I cut open the end of my toothpaste tube to get to the last wee bit of paste. Call it conservation or being stingy but that’s what I do. So I totally identify with the Thrift Toothpaste package design and hope someone like Colagte or Crest adopt it! It will save me the trouble of hunting for scissors…I’ll just tear open the rear end! Designer: GUO Lili. KeepMeOut.

Bees Solve Complex Problems Faster Than Supercomputers. In a new study, researchers report that bumblebees were able to figure out the most efficient routes among several computer-controlled "flowers," quickly solving a complex problem that even stumps supercomputers. We already know bees are pretty good at facial recognition, and researchers have shown they can also be effective air-quality monitors. Bumblebees can solve the classic "traveling salesman" problem, which keeps supercomputers busy for days. They learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers even if they find the flowers in a different order, according to a new British study.

The traveling salesman problem is a problem in computer science; it involves finding the shortest possible route between cities, visiting each city only once. Bees are the first animals to figure this out, according to Queen Mary University of London researchers. This is no small feat, especially considering the tiny size of bee brains. Electrolux Pure Washer – Eco Automatic Sink Concept by AHHA Project. Split-Face Sink, Very Nice! It’s so natural for us to put all the dirty dishes into the sink and come back later to tackle them.

Wouldn’t it be great if our sink got intelligent enough and cleaned up the mess automatically? Ah, the pleasures of the concept world peppered with practical solutions! Here’s the Pure Washer – Eco Automatic Sink that does just this. It’s a sink that is divided into two rotatable parts, where in one part you put in the dishes, and it rotates away under the counter to wash them. Designer: AHHA Project. 10 Unbelievable, Unlikely Animal Friendships. Friends and enemies in the animal world tend to be pretty clear-cut -- there are some species that just weren't born to get along. But as these unlikely pairs show, even Mother Nature doesn't set things in stone: Who says that orangutans and tigers, dogs and deer, cats and birds can't all be friends somehow? From a sheep that brought a baby elephant out of a deep depression to natural enemies that snuggle down together for every nap, these 10 heart-wrenching relationships are incredible and unforgettable.

Take this macaque, for example, who, according to The Daily News, was rescued from Neilingding Island in China after his mother abandoned him and left him for dead: His recovery was dragging until he made friends with this pigeon, and now the two are rarely apart. Photo via The Daily Mail. Pinky and The Brain prove why old cartoons are better. Worlds Strongest Man 30 Years of Pain — Strongest Man. Anderson Silva’s Front Kick of Death - SportsUntapped.com. Added February 6th, 2011 by Matt Anderson Silva retained his UFC Middleweight Championship title by defeating Vitor Belfort at UFC 126. Early on Belfort landed the only significant blows of the first round. Then Silva landed a most amazing KO. Silva gave credit to Steven Seagal after the fight for teaching him that technique.

Joe Rogan he has called over 1000 fights and has never seen anything like that. Silva’s win gives him a UFC record 8th title defense. Is it time for Anderson to fight Wanderlei Silva? The Evolution of the Eye. Russian Systema: most efficient martial art in the world. 1928 Tommy Gun photo - C. G. Anderson photos at pbase. The gorilla that walks like a man.

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