The best optical illusion ever

Posted by raluca in February 17th 2007

IMHO this is the best optical illusion ever. The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray, yet they appear different. This isn’t a joke! It is for real. If you don believe us you can test it: just save the photo, load it in Photoshop and roll the color picker over [...]

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Ugly WET Lamp

Posted by raluca in February 5th 2007

The WET Lamp by Scott Franklin designer is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light bulb at its center. Putting an exposed light bulb in water certainly raises some eyebrows, but it also creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch. When a thin silver rod is slid into the water, [...]

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8 million Dolar Car

Posted by raluca in February 4th 2007

Do you think Maybach Exelero is expensive? I think is ugly, too! No tag for this post.

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Catastrophic earthquake

Posted by raluca in February 3rd 2007

A series of recent tremors emanating from deep Ocean is a warning that a giant quake (magnitude measuring as high as 9) may hit West Coast of North America. Geological statistics show that [tag]giant[/tag] earthquakes occur in [tag]West Coast[/tag] of North America once every 500 years. Scientists have alerted [tag]British Columbia[/tag]‘s emergency-planning department to the [...]

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MP3 watch with Bluetooth

Posted by raluca in February 1st 2007

iRiver present a 2GB mp3 watch with Bluetooth. So, you can use a Bluetooth headset. Unfortunately you must use USB to upload your files to mp3 player, so no Bluetooth for this. No tag for this post.

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The Youngest Grocer In America

Posted by raluca in January 6th 2007

After the only grocery store in Truman, Minn., closed earlier this year, 17-year-old Nick Graham bought and re-opened it to help save the struggling community. Steve Hartman reports. … No tag for this post.

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ASUS W5Fe SideShow notebook

Posted by raluca in January 6th 2007

ASUS present at CES W5Fe, the first dual screen notebook. The compact 12” wide notebook with SideShow, external auxiliary display on the LCD cover, has a lot of other nice features like webcam, card reader slot or Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. The W5Fe’s auxiliary display is a short cut to viewing a wide range of information, including [...]

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Home Made Jetpack Flight and Crash

Posted by raluca in December 26th 2006

Kid genius Mackenzie builds and fly a jetpack made from model rocket motors. No tag for this post.

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Optical Device to Advance Computer Performance

Posted by raluca in December 24th 2006

IBM announced its researchers have built a device capable of delaying the flow of light on a silicon chip, a requirement to one day allow computers to use optical communications to achieve better performance. Researchers have known that the use of optical instead of electrical signals for transferring data within a computer chip might result [...]

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