| Michael Brown (no, not the FEMA guy) and his team of astronomers who discovered the "10th" planet (yes, behind pluto) in our solar system said that the object has a moon. The new planet - if it is a planet, is dubbed Xena and the moon is now called Gabrielle after the popular TV series. Link |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have invented a technology that detects a digital camera and shoots a targeted beam of light to it. |
| TV Cream has worked out the top 100 nostalgic toys - you'll remember them if you're born before the 1980s. Link |
| Boodles Jewellers made this world's most expensive teabag. It took 3 months and was handcrafted using 280 diamonds. The price? £7,500 or about $13,000. Other things: most expensive bra and underwear: $15 million, cocktail drink: $26,000, shoes: $1.7 million. Wanna buy me something for Christmas? http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1234791.cms (via grow a brain) |
| Hitachi explains how new MP3 player hard drive technology gets around the paramagnetic effect (huh?) in a cute animation called "Get Perpendicular". Link |
| This ad showed soldiers descending from an airborn Boeing's Osprey helicopter onto a roof of a bombed out mosque. The caption said "It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell." The ad ran twice in National Journal and Armed Forces Journal, before complaints caused it to be yanked. Link (via grow a brain) |
| The Internet has everything, including a website dedicated to old TVs. MZTV is the web's museum of television, and it has some pretty amazing collections of old, old TVs. Link (via Look At This ...) |
| Apparently, car pool means something completely different in Japan. See this real life car pool. Link |
Vito Acconci is a renegade artist that designed an artificial island designed like a giant bowl named the Mur Island in Graz, Austria. Link (via Aberrant News) |
| Malnourished all his life, Gopal Haldar couldn't work in the fields in India's Sunderbans mangrove region. Because of his poor health and stick-like body, his neighbors said that he was "born to play a ghost" - so in a when-life-gives-you-lemon-you-make-lemonade fashion, Gopal now makes a living playing a ghost. From the website: "He says it takes him only 10 to 15 minutes to do his makeup and transform his emaciated self into a ghost-like creature -- mainly by painting his sunken face, protruding ribs and skeletal limbs with soot." Link |
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