This is for those of you who actually still use manual writing instruments (I haven’t picked up a pen or pencil for months). The designers from Art Lebedev Studio bring you a mix of the old and the new, an eraser shaped like the delete key off a keyboard.
It’s not cheap at around the US$10 […]

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Several artists have used their talents to reinterpret a number of kids sketches over at drawergeeks.com with some very cool results.
Looking at these images makes me wonder how these kids sleep at night, it seems that their thoughts are filled with the stuff nightmares are made of.
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Five million kilowatts.. thats how much power servers in the US consumed in 2005.
For a bit of perspective that amount of power is enough to power 4 million homes for a year and costs about $2.7 billion.
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The International Atomic Energy Authority unveiled a new danger sign for radiation today. The sign is the result of five years of research which involved testing more than 1650 people in 11 countries.

So, as well as the traditional exclamation mark trefoil, a skull and crossbones is there to belt and braces the fact that […]

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“You’re in the iWorld Bill,….and I am a God here.”
very clever and amusing vid, enjoy :)

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The geeks over at comicvine.com have put together a list of 35 questions to match you with your perfect Super Hero character..
According to the quiz my Super Hero lover is X-23 and apparently I am in for a wild time :) now where can I find her?

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This is a pretty cool illusion, have a look at the squares marked ‘A’ and ‘B’ in the image above. They look like they are different colors but in actual fact they are not, they are exactly the same.
Placing the squares side by side as in the image below destroys the illusion. Try it yourself.

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Intel have put together a test processor that is capable of processing 1.8 trillion instructions per second (1.8 teraflops). The chip consists of 80 cores and about 100 million transistors all in a package about the same size as a current Xeon chip. The first time teraflop performance was achieved was in 1996 by […]

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Now this is way soooo addictive.. build a slot car track online and then race against a friend or the computer..
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The destruction of a chinese satellite last month greatly contributed to the amount of crap space junk orbiting our planet. The satellite which was destroyed in a ballistic missile test by the Chinese (which pissed off the whole world) is now in millions of pieces with about 900 of the pieces large enough to be […]

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Sony Ericsson have just announced the W880i which is the latest version of their very popular walkman phones. The specs look decent but the killer feature is that the phone is only 9.4 mm thick.

Spec summary:
3G phone
Stainless steel casing
Bluetooth
2 megapixel camera
Flight mode
RSS feeds
Mega Bass
Push E-mail
The only downside is that you have to use Sony […]

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Bush with his version of U2’s classic “Sunday bloody Sunday”. Very well done vid :)

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