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Video: The Popinator Tracks Where Your Voice Is Coming From And Shoots...
The Popinator Popcorn IndianaJust say "pop" and the crunchy, buttery goodness is yours. If you're tired of relying on your merely-mortal hands to catapult popcorn into your maw during snack time,...
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First 3-D Printing Store Opens In U.S.
Outside the MakerBot Store Clay DillowMakerBot will open a 3-D printing shop on Sept. 20 in New York City. Inside, a new breed of machines prints out designs from the web. The hope: to make the hobby...
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Don't Buy A DSLR
Gaaaah What Is This NikonJust getting into photography? Great! When you're looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs--as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into...
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German Art Laser Turns Random Desktop Crap Into Exotic Musical Instruments
The Sonification of Everyday Things via Dennis P. PaulUsing a distance measuring laser and a stepper motor, designer Dennis P Paul turns everyday stuff into audio loops. Dennis P Paul, "gestalter" and...
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The Fastest Way To Crack A 4-Digit PIN Number [Infographic]
Pin Analysis Data GeneticsGood ol' 1234 accounts for about 10 percent of passwords. That's more than the bottom 4,200 combinations put together. We know people default to bad passwords, whether for...
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London, UK, Is In Ontario: The World According To Apple's Horrid Map App
Airfield, in Dublin No runways though, because this is actually a park. via HuffPo UKUnless you need to find an Apple Store, the Apple Maps app is pretty useless. In fact, it's not even great at...
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Your Next Leather Wallet Could Be Grown In A Petri Dish
Petri-dish wallet Flickr user Romana CorrealeIn vitro leather production would be less controversial than growing hamburgers in the lab, Modern Meadow CEO Andras Forgacs says. Science has been trying...
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Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers In Candy Bars To Hunt Down Eaters
We Will Find You oskay via FlickrSelect Kit-Kat bars in the UK will contain GPS devices, which Nestlé will use to find the buyers and give them a cash prize. Customers buying Kit-Kat bars in the United...
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Video: Tour the First Retail 3-D Printing Store In The U.S.
MakerBot Industries is opening the first U.S. retail store dedicated to 3-D printing. Explore a space that may soon arrive at a shopping mall near you. Yesterday MakerBot Industries, perhaps the...
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Harvard Business Review: Data Scientist Is The 'Sexiest Job Of The 21st Century'
Data Science Is Sexy Flickr user Marius B What is the sexiest job of the 21st century? If you said "data scientist," you're probably an editor at Harvard Business Review and probably not anyone else....
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One Gene Lays The Blueprint for A Cheetah's Spots And A Tabby Cat's Stripes
Tabby Cats A mutation in Taqpep converts a "mackerel tabby" pattern (upper) to a "blotched tabby" pattern (lower). Courtesy Helmi FlickA new study is the first to identify a molecular basis for cat...
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PopSci Predicted The Future Of 3-D Printing In 1989
The screen on the three-dimensional CAD terminal shows a design for a plastic connector used in IV-feeding equipment PopSci archives"Presto! Growing parts from liquid plastic" More than 23 years before...
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Most Retracted Scientific Papers Are Pulled Due To Fraud
Piltdown Hoaxers John CookeA recent study finds that only 21 percent of all retracted papers were due to legitimate error rather than scientific misconduct. It feels like not a week goes by without a...
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Simulating Magnitude 8 Earthquakes In The Lab With A Giant Flywheel
Aseismic Creep in California Fault creep has displaced this Fremont, Calif., curb since its construction about 15 years previous to when this photo was taken. WikipediaMore realistic earthquake...
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New Contact Lenses Reshape Eyes, Preventing Nearsightedness
Glasses Are Cool MJorge via FlickrDesigned for kids, these contacts would nip myopia in the bud. Nearsighted kids have to wear glasses to correct their lack of eye focus, but this doesn't cure the...
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The Art And Science Of Nobel Prize Prediction
Nobel Medal WikipediaHow Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury makes impressively accurate predictions of who will win. Every May for the past 10 years, Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury has...
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Infographic: How Fast Is A Cheetah?
And other fascinating details about "nature's speed machine" Infographic designed by Jacob O'Neal Cheetahs are "nature's speed machine," writes graphic designer Jacob O'Neal. It can go from zero to 60...
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3M's New Streaming Projector Has The Brains Of A Roku
3M Streaming Projector with Roku Streaming Stick Courtesy 3MThe MHL-enabled system gets easily-upgradable, one-plug connectivity from Roku's new Stick. Today, 3M became the first company to do...
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How I Survived A Trip Inside A Military Aviation-Testing Plant To Film 'Top...
Popular Science editor in chief Jacob Ward in Top Secret, premiering October 9 National Geographic Channel Popular Science's editor-in-chief stars in a new National Geographic show. One of the great...
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What Absolutely Cannot Go Wrong When Felix Baumgartner Attempts The Longest...
Leaping Into The Unknown BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner plummets toward Earth in a spacesuit during a test skydive. The grand attempt will be a jump from 120,000 feet. Jay Nemeth/Red Bull Content PoolOn...
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