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  Dancing Samurai Robot Waiters Bring You Sushi, Dance Moves

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  Dancing and singing waiters? Been there, done that. How about Dancing Samurai Robot Waiters with goofy eyes and a toothy grin? Bring it on, right? While Japanese food may be the fare at Thailand’s Hajime Robot Restaurant, these raw-fish serving robot attendants are the real attractions. A fully-automated sushi bar, clients can pick their orders from a touchscreen menu, take their seats and wait for the rolling bundles of steel to show up with their food. Dressed in traditional (okay, [...]

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  Buy Your Own Small Town From eBay

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  Why run for Mayor? Buy your own small town and declare yourself an Emperor. While we’re not sure how to go about making the latter official, you can get a headstart by snagging Wauconda, a small town in eastern Washington currently on auction at eBay. Millionaires have been buying their own private islands for a while now. Do them one better and buy your own town. Who wants to be surrounded by sharks and all that saltwater anyway?  Wauconda, which [...]

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  World’s Oldest Whiskey: Mortlach 70 Year Old

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  Some liquors are aged. Others are just freaking ancient. The Mortlach 70 Year Old is the new granddaddy for your whiskey collection, having stewed patiently a full seven decades. Aged in a special cherry cask that lived to see the world before World War II in the Speyside region of Scotland, it’s as old as it is special. Only a limited number of bottles have been made, none of which I’ll have the heart to ever open even if you [...]

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  China Unleashes New Superweapon: Giant Deodorant Cannons

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  Look out superpowers. China has unveiled a new cannon. And it’s armed with massive doses of…errr…deodorant. Don’t worry, humble citizen who doesn’t take baths. It’s not meant for you. Instead, Beijing will be using the Giant Deodorant Guns to spray gallons of fragrance over the city’s ever-growing landfills, so that nearby residents don’t have to put up with the aroma of freshly-rotting garbage whenever the wind blows their way. That’s how serious Beijing’s garbage problem has become – a direct [...]

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  Computers Know Everything, Even How To Avoid Landmines

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  Sick of military games showing children even wilder ways to kill? A new game, Landmine Lookout, goes the other way, teaching young lads in war-torn countries how to help keep everyone alive. Developed by students and faculty from Michigan State University (MSU), the game looks to educate children on the finer points of avoiding unexploded landmines. Obviously not for the majority of people, it’s designed for use in areas ravaged by years of wars, with landmines intended to catch enemies [...]

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  Matsumura Yoran Offers Service To Bring Orchids Back From The Dead

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  Japanese hobby gardeners who have developed an attachment to their flowers need not be sad when their orchids die. Orchid grower Matsumura Yoran is opening a new business that they claim will Frankenstein customers’ dead orchids back into bloom. Just like the plot to a bad horror movie. According to company president Hidehiko Matsumura, “We want our customers to enjoy the attraction of orchids as long as possible.” And that they will, once the orchids go through the company’s revival [...]

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  Einstein’s Manuscript For The Theory Of Relativity On Display

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   First published in 1916, Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity remains a groundbreaking landmark in modern Physics. Now, the original manuscript detailing the famed scientist’s explanation of the subject has gone on display in its entirety for the very first time. While the manuscript has been shown to the public before, it was always in the form of isolated pages, highlighting one or more of the aspects of the general theory. According to organizers, they wanted to exhibit something [...]

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  PlanetSolar, The World’s Largest Solar-Powered Boat

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  Since the 1980s, skipper Raphael Domjan has been dreaming of sailing around the world using the minimum amount of energy.  Five years ago, he embarked on a journey to fulfill that dream.  Recently, they unveiled the vessel that will help him accomplish it – PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat. Shown off at the HDW shipyard in Kiel, Germany, the catamaran measures 100 feet long, 50 feet wide and 25 feet high.  Using a multi-hull body constructed by the Knierim [...]

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  Save The Office From Lunch Confusion With The Takeout Menu Organizer

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  Lunchtime is always busy time at the office.  That’s because stomachs are grumbling and no one has any idea where to get their food.  Except you, of course, because you’ve got the Takeout Menu Organizer, a three-ring binder designed for putting together a compilation of local take-out flyers.  My hero! Everyone at work likes takeout food.  Despite that, no one seems to bother organizing the stack of restaurant flyers that regularly make their rounds.  That’s where you swoop in, of [...]

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  Forget Work At Home, The H2Office Lets You Work At Sea!

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  You’ve already got an office in your backyard.  Now, it’s time to take unconventional workplaces to the next level with the H2Office, a compact office unit designed to float in the water. Why would you want do that?  Well, I’m not entirely sure.  Maybe, working in a 30-story building at the commercial center cramps your style.  Perhaps, fishing or sunbathing both sound like better activities to enjoy during your lunch break.  Heck, maybe your business caters to the kind of [...]

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  Make The Ocean Your Living Room With The Electric Sofa Boat

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  Your living room’s a bit too cramped?  Entertain guests in the biggest living room ever – the ocean – with the Sofa Boat, an electric-powered, floating watercraft with a couch on top. Recently shown off at the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show, the unusual vessel is intended for ferrying people over short distances.  So why is it in the yacht show?  Because you can use it to carry guests from your luxury yacht to a party at George Clooney’s luxury yacht.  [...]

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  Hoverwing Floats Your Boat…Literally

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  Hovercrafts are awesome.  Because they’re supported by a cushion of slow moving, high-pressure air, they can travel equally well on land, ice and water.  The Hoverwing, a DIY hovercraft by New Zealand mechanic Rudy Heeman, goes the extra mile, hovering well above the water at heights of up to five feet. What’s so spectacular about this one?  As you can tell from the photo, it doesn’t just hover like a regular hovercraft – it soars.  Even better, it can perform [...]

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  Boneyard: Where Dead American Warplanes Go To Die

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  From afar, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) looks like an airplane modeler’s wet dream.  Lots of miniature flying machines just sitting there, waiting to be cast in a suspended animation scene.  Amusingly enough, they aren’t toys.  Instead, they’re real, decommissioned birds awaiting their future fate. The place, more popularly known as the Boneyard, is where old military airplanes go to die.  Reputed to be the world’s largest aircraft cemetery, the airbase covers a sprawling 2,600 acres of [...]

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  Forget Cops And Robbers, Get Your Kids Playing Sellers And Suckers With The Kaufladen

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  Want your kids to grow up filthy rich?  Get them started early with the Kaufladen, a mobile kiosk stand marketed to German kids.  That way, they can steal stuff from your fridge and sell it back to you for a profit.   Clever. Anywhere you go in the world, it’s always the business owners raking all the money.  Forget having your children play cops and robbers – nobody makes real coin from that deal.  If they’re going to roleplay, they might [...]

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  Vacuum Cleaner Museum Showcases 120 Vintage And Classic Dust-Sucking Home Appliances

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  All things that suck go here. No, not our website – we’re cool (well, we try). They go to Nottingham, England’s Vacuum Cleaner Museum, possibly the single most dust-free place in the world. Yep, a real, true-to-life depository for everyone’s favorite dust-eating home appliance. Don’t expect a floor that looks like the home cleaning shelves of your local appliance store, though. None of that lame, robotic modern vacuums here. Instead, it’s filled with lines upon lines of vintage and classic [...]

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  Bloom Energy Shows Off Their Bloom Box Fuel Cell Power Generators

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  After being featured on 60 Minutes, the entire world is abuzz with Bloom Energy once again.  Nearly forgotten due to a lack of recent press, the alternative energy company’s current spate of publicity is sure to light a fire in water-cooler discussions over the next few months. Why is it such a big deal?  Bloom Energy produces fuel cell boxes that, when combined with an energy source (such as natural gas), can produce usable electricity.  See those two boxes founder [...]

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  Zingy Is A Super Safe Two-Person Boat That’s Cute As A Button

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  Unlike cars or gadgets, boats aren’t exactly something most regular folks think about buying.  Inventor Clayton Turney wants to change all that with the Zingy, a sea-capable, two-person boat that prides itself on accessibility. Designed for novice boaters, it looks nothing more than a toy at first glance (like a real boat with the rest of its body hacked off).  Don’t let the harmless appearance fool you.  While small, it boasts excellent sea-keeping abilities, described as a “super safe, super [...]

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  In Gangland Taiwan, The Handgun Of Choice Is A Shotgun Revolver

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  Shotguns pack a punch, but those things are also huge – not the type of weapon you can stick under your pants when you want to roll down packing quietly.  In gangland Taiwan, they’re supposed to get over that hurdle by using these: shotgun revolvers. Yes, it’s a small handheld weapon that you can, theoretically, hide under baggy jeans.  Really baggy jeans.  Unlike other pistols, though, it can take standard 12-gauge shotgun slugs and shells, allowing you to put a [...]

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  Workaholic Pillow Adds A Disguised Head Cushion On Your Desk For Those Sneaky Office Naps

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  Like to sleep at work when no one’s looking?  Doze off comfortably with the Workaholic Pillow, a soft head cushion that folds up into an innocent-looking book to keep your office hour naps a secret. Yep, it’s a downy pillow disguised as a giant book.  We can’t read the Japanese inscriptions on the side, which is awesome, since no one at my office can understand what it says either.  If anyone asks, just say it’s your private diary that no [...]

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