Gus Lopez and Pam Green must love Star Wars. A lot. Just take a virtual tour of their house, and you’ll never ever complain about your husband’s old Star Wars collection anymore!

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The Apple Key is a huge USB plug & play single, glorifieing Apple Key for Apple fans and Windows user. Yes, that’s right: It works on Windows and gives you all the advantages you have on PowerMacs! Big question: why is it that huge – about 47,5 x 7 x 7 inches? Because I want Windows user to get something for their money.

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The kitten was born Wednesday morning in Ohio. It has two mouths that meow in unison, two noses and four eyes that have not opened yet.

The little boy who owns the cat said he hasn’t decided on a name for the kitten yet, but said he wants to name it Tiger. Two other kittens were in the same litter, but they are normal.

Veterinarians say this occurrence is very rare, but the kitten could be just fine. It has already begun nursing just like the other kittens in the litter.

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We’ve featured Bathsheba Grossman’s mathematical art sculptures before – now, she’s collaborated with designer lighting manufacturer Materialise MGX to create some awesome lamps …

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German artist Winfried Baumann created these homes on carts called instant housing for the homeless, emergencies and the urban nomads

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Andrew Nestler has compiled a neat list of math and mathematicians on the popular TV show The Simpsons [wiki]:

Lisa dresses up as a boy to get into the boys’ math class. The teacher writes the equation Y x Y = 25 on the board.

Teacher: Now, how many different numbers can Y be?
Lisa as Jake: That’s easy – just one, the number 5.
Teacher: Wrong.
[Lisa gasps.]
Martin: There are two possible solutions: 5 and -5.
Lisa interior voice: Oh my god, I was wrong – and by being corrected, I learned! [happily] And no one cared about my feelings!

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Scrags is one ugly duckling:

There’s just no way of ducking the issue – little Scrags is one ugly duckling.

While his brothers and sisters preen their beautiful yellow downy fluff, he barely has two feathers to rub together.

He can’t swim, either:

When his owner Lara Madge tested out the brood’s water wings, Scrags floundered about until she fished him out.

‘Scrags flailed his legs and wings about and I did not dare let him go because if I had I’m sure he would have sunk to the bottom,’ she said.

But people (and his sibling ducks) sure love him:

Mrs Madge, 36, said: ‘People either laugh at him or cannot look at him at all. But he was never rejected by the other ducklings because of the way he looks.

‘In fact, the others love him so much they look after him and snuggle around him when they sit down.

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New technology has enabled Matthew Nagle, who is paralyzed from the neck down, control a computer using only his thoughts!

Paralyzed from the neck down, but connected to a computer by a wire implanted into the top of his brain, he used his thoughts to draw a rudimentary circle on the video monitor, to pick up objects with a robot arm and even to play simple video games — chatting with researchers while he did so. …

In June 2004, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital surgically implanted through the top of Nagle’s skull a pea-sized sensor that picked-up the electrical patterns of his intentions — to move a cursor up, down, right or left — and a wire leading to computers that decoded the signals from the brain and delivered electronic orders to the video screen.

Similarly, he could use his thoughts to cause a rubber prosthetic hand to open and close, or to manipulate a robot arm to grab a piece of candy and drop it on command. He could change the channels and control the volume of a television set.

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What do you get when you cross an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) with a jetski? You get an amphibious quadbike/ATV called the Quadski!

The Quadski represents the third demonstration of Gibbs’ HSA technology, following in the tire tracks of its Aquada and Humdinga vehicles. The Quadski is capable of travelling up to 50 mph on land and water and makes the transition, according to the company, at the flick of a switch.

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French photographer Cedric Delsaux has a neat photo collection of Star Wars characters in Paris!

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From the TV show America’s Got Talent, here’s 11-year-old Bianca Ryan singing "And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going" by Jennifer Holliday. Listen …

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That’s Seth Weiner’s art project, a vehicle called Terranaut:

"The vehicle conveys a fish-pilot, or Terranaut, in an aqueous vessel that is propelled by two drive wheels, each driven by its own highly efficient servomotor. The vehicle’s power is stored in a bank of electrical cells that deliver energy ot the motors at 36 volts.

The Terranaut swims safely in an aqueous vessel called the "cockpit" steering the vehicle with its movements. A camera above the cockpit tracks the movement of the Terranaut within the vessel. The Terranaut’s location is then wirelessly transmitted to a remote processing station, where the data is converted into motion commands and transmitted back to the motion controller on the vehicle"

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Zhang Baoxiu, a farmer, shows an odd duck with 4 legs at Minzhu village in Zaozhuang city, east China’s Shandong Province, July 7, 2006. Zhang Baoxiu bought a duck in June, 2006. The duck has four legs, two of 4 webbed feet are normal, and the others grow together. The duck can walk on land and swim in the water like other normal ducks.

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