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10:20 pm Fri
Apr 17, 2009
The Rotterdam Zoo is giving away cardboard glasses that make it appear that you're looking off to one side; these are gorilla-viewing glasses, meant to avoid incidents in which gorillas attack visitors for making eye contact with them. The glasses' introduction follows an attack on a woman by an escaped gorilla; the specs are sponsored by a local health-insurance company.
(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
The Vernepator Cur was once a ubiquitous dog breed in the UK and the American colonies, and it had a job: for six days a week, it ran tirelessly in a wheel in the kitchen that was geared to turn a meat-spit over the fire (on Sundays it went to church with its owners and […]
Binding arbitration is corporate America's favorite dirty trick: to use a product, you are forced to give up your right to sue if the company hurts you, cheats you, or even kills you.
In PrinTracker: Fingerprinting 3D Printers using Commodity Scanners (Scihub mirror), a paper to be presented at the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security conference in Toronto this month, a group of U Buffalo and Northeastern researchers present a model for uniquely identifying which 3D printer produced a given manufactured object, which may allow […]
Whether you already have hearing loss or want to save what you have, it’s time to look into bone conduction earphones. Well, guess what! These True Wireless Bone Conduction Earphones are on sale and a great introduction to the tech. If you’re not familiar with bone conduction, you’ll notice something different about these otherwise minimalist […]
Next time you treat yourself, try holding the guilt hangover. There are plenty of ways to add to your inventory without adding to your clutter. In fact, some of these gift ideas might clear it away. Nobody’s path to zen is the same. Check out this roundup of ways to escape and find your own. […]
If you’re shopping for a camping lantern, you’re looking for reliability, period. So it’s nice to find something like the Revogi Convertible LED Lantern that jumps over that low bar and actually offers some versatility. Made of simple materials, the Revogi is high-tech in a refreshingly minimalist, eight-ounce package. Yes, it’ll light up the campsite […]
