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Stop Everything and check out the World’s First 3D Drawing Pen

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Hey crafty people, in case you haven’t already been trawling the tech blogs of the internet this morning, your crafty lives as you know them are about to change. There’s not much to say about the 3D pen, oh, except that it’s awesome. But okay, here are your basic facts. It was launched yesterday on [...]

Quirky Bookstore unveils a Literary Vending Machine

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I‘m the worst in bookstores. It’s kind of like witnessing someone choose the last book they’ll ever read. So when I heard about a bookshop in Toronto by the name of Monkey’s Paw with the world’s first “antiquarian book randomiser”, essentially a literary vending machine that dispenses books like a lucky dip, the idea really spoke [...]

Need to send a Smell via text? There’s an iPhone app for that.

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Question: What does present day cell phone technology lack? Answer: “You can’t send smell through a cell phone,” pointed out a female staffer at the Japanese perfume company Chaku Perfume. And that ladies and gentlemen, is how a new and refreshing take on ‘smell my finger’ was born…. An application that enables you to send smells through [...]

Before Google Earth: Camera Pigeons c. 1908

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In 1908 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism. The invention brought him international notability after he presented it at international expositions in Dresden, Frankfurt and Paris in 1909–1911. Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the camera-equipped carrier pigeons, and the photos were immediately developed and turned [...]

Male Anti-Masturbation device, 1871-1930

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This may be teetering on the edge of inappropriate content but I’m presuming that’s one of the reasons you come here, is it not? Anyhoo, let’s talk about this anti-masturbation device… During the late 1800s, masturbation was considered to be not only morally wrong, as it is a form of self-gratification, but also harmful to [...]

The Secret Invention behind Michael Jackson’s Anti-Gravity Lean

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Ever since the first time I saw Michael Jackson do his infamous gravity-defying lean in Moonwalker, it’s remained a total mystery as to how he and his dancers did it. I hopelessly attempted it in front of the television screen for years. But today, the mystery came to an end today and it feels ever [...]



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