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Anybody who has read Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy knows what the Babel fish can do:
“…if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into [...]

Alyce Santoro creates the Sonic Fabric by weaving 50% prerecorded cassette tape and with 50% cotton, which can then be fashioned into clothing, handbags, flags/banners. I don’t know how it works, but its website says you can yank some tape head and run it on the fabric surface to “playback” the old recordings on the [...]

Many respectable people have already slathered Shandong Erge with the to-die-for moniker of “Aleksey Vayner of China” or even the “Yao Ming of Douches,” but it doesn’t stop us from pitching in our own gallon of bile as we say that he is, indeed, Vayner’s Chinese doppelganger of sorts.
Erge is a 29-year-old gym instructor at [...]

Eepybird’s mad scientists have put in many precious mad-scientist-hours in taking cans of Coke and Mentos and making these well-loved products of modern civilization annihilate one another in a breathtaking performance called, “Experiment #214.”
Prepare to be awed.
via GOOGLE BLOG

Por muchos años, hemos blasfemado casi toda la herencia y legacía de España sin pensamiento cuidadoso, sin justicia inteligente, pero con mucho prejudicio ciego. Pero ¿hemos parado a pensar que sin estos “malos” que España nos ha dado, seríamos nada?
Sí, había habido una cultura distinta que ha existado en el archipiélago. Pero debemos ser recordamos de un [...]

It is not well-known that Philippine national hero José Rizal joined an obscure organization called the Círculo Hispano-Filipino, a group of Filipino students and some Spaniards who had stayed in the Philippines. He joined the group while he was studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Rizal used to write for the said group’s magazine. When the Círculo and its [...]

The new phone from the alliance between Bang & Olufsen and Samsung sports an interesting keypad design. That’s it, keypad. Maybe you’re supposed to lick it when calling someone.
via COMPUTER LOVE

Literally. And if you’d hurry, you might still get a piece of that hot ass.
via MOSNEWS

No combustion, no gas, no emissions. Just pure compressed air “fuelling” this new-fangled vehicle.
The skinny:
Compressed air in a carbon-fiber tank, something like scuba divers use, drives the pistons and turns the crankshaft. There is no combustion and no gasoline. That’s why there’s no pollution. You fill it up at an air compressor.
via CBS

Tim Tucker’s Tetris Weightlifting gives a new, calorie-sensitive side to the old game.
Tetris Weightlifting is a prototype entertainment fitness system that allows players to lift weights as the means of control for a modified version of Tetris. User testing with the device suggests great potential for combining casual games with exercise activity.
Try it. I would [...]

If you have $8,999.85 to burn, get yourself your own personal Zoltar fortune teller from Hammacher and Schlemmer.
Zoltar acknowledges your presence and invites you to approach him. Once you insert a quarter (coins may be removed), Zoltar nods his head up and down as his crystal ball illuminates and he sweeps his hand back and [...]

Russia’s Saint B mp3 player completes the common Goth’s requisite paraphernalia, but it maybe has more potent uses as some Catholic protection of sorts. Designed to dangle from your neck, it has USB connectivity and an earphone plug.
Flash-player in a chrome-plated steel body frame.
Control elements and OLED-display are covered by flexible, semi-transparent plastic. A log [...]

Human employees are probably giving one another worried glances at Fukushima’s Aizu Central Hospital, which has two new employees: a receptionist and a hospital guide, both robots.
The first is the job of receptionist, which goes to the blue robot. The blue robot is there to ask you where you are going, and to help you [...]

Bittorrent, Inc. has made available for free download the following nine horror films:
Carnival of Souls
Night of the Living Dead
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
The City of the Dead/Horror Hotel
The Vampire Bat
Nosferatu
The Bride of the Gorilla
The Wasp Woman
Nightmare Castle
These are already free public domain films, available on Archive.org, so you don’t have to worry that people in [...]

Ultimate Fighting Championship brawler Tito Ortiz had been supposedly the guest of honor at the Marine Corps’ birthday ball, but he’d been ditched at the last minute after hot-blooded Marines learned Ortiz was bringing porn star girlfriend Jenna Jameson.
“We invited him, and he accepted. Then, it became aware to us that his guest was going [...]

It took the FBI days to track down Christopher Soghoian after he launched online his fake NWA boarding pass creator, which was supposedly a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of how easy it is to get a fake boarding pass.
Soghoian, a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, says he has never used one of the fake boarding passes, which [...]

People with prosopagnosia can see your eyes, your nose, your mouth – but not recognize your face. It’s a brain disorder and yes, real people exist and have the strange brain dysfunction.Take 48-year-old Bill Choisser:
For most of his childhood, Choisser thought he was normal. He just assumed that nobody saw faces. But slowly, it dawned [...]