Etsy seller GreenTeaJewelry makes beautiful but complicated light switch covers using brass gears and wood. They're fully functional. Turn the crank and the toggle switch will flip.
Link -via Boing Boing
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Etsy seller GreenTeaJewelry makes beautiful but complicated light switch covers using brass gears and wood. They're fully functional. Turn the crank and the toggle switch will flip.
Link -via Boing Boing
This amazing sundial at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris in Valbonne, France is designed so that on the day of the summer and winter solstices, sunlight shining through it displays the word "solstice." On the days of the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sunlight forms the word "equinoxe."
Link | Photo: Jean-Marc Mari
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Whether it's stabbing meat or punching humans, robots play to win. And thanks to human collaborators at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, robots will always prevail at games of rock, paper, scissors. It has a high speed camera that sees the shape that the human competitor's hand is forming and plays a winning move one millisecond before the human finishes his own.
Link -via Gizmodo
If you see a young person heading down the wrong path--one that leads to a life behind bars--then help him out. Teach him how to read and write well. It may get him out of prison faster:
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Image: Be a Novelist
Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil's most notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year, the government announced.
Prisoners will have up to four weeks to read each book and write an essay which must "make correct use of paragraphs, be free of corrections, use margins and legible joined-up writing," said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette.
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Image: Be a Novelist
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Tailgunner is a maker of custom motorcycle exhaust pipes that look like the rotating barrels of miniguns. Why? Because awesome.
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Daniel Russell is an expert in online searching who works for Google. During a lecture about advanced web searching, he showed this photo and asked "What’s the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped?"
Can you answer with just the information in this picture?
At the link you can find Russell's answer and an explanation of how he got it.
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Enough of that travelling on foot nonsense. Link is now crossing Hyrule in a sleeper truck, which redditor teslas_notepad spotted in a Wal-Mart parking lot in northwestern Ohio.
Link -via Geekologie
Mike M sent photos of his new tat to Geeky Tattoos. They say in PHP programming language "Nothing risked, nothing gained, nothing lost, nothing learned."
Link | Tattoo Artist: Tyson Pederson
New York City-based artist Steph Mantis sells pizza slices in blocks of lucite. She calls them "Ninja Throwing Slices," but I think this project as the ultimate achievement in food preservation. Is that pizza that has been sitting on your kitchen counter for two days still safe to eat? This one would be.
Artist's Website -via That's Nerdalicious!
An adulterer won't be able to just slip off his/her wedding ring before heading out on the prowl. The Cheeky's titanium wedding ring leaves the words "I'm Married" imprinted on the wearer's finger.
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Be polite. Just look her in the eyes and pretend that you don't see it. It's rude to point out physical deformities.
In this case, it's just paint. A Japanese student who goes by the handle Chooo-san has a knack for body painting. She uses it to create extra eyes and mouths on her face and arms.
Link -via Oddity Central | Chooo-san's Blog
Even with the limited transportation technologies of the time, the passage of trade over the world carried glass beads from the Roman Empire to the Fifth Century A.D. Utsukushi burial mound in Nagaoka, Japan:
It found that the light yellow beads were made with natron, a chemical used to melt glass by craftsmen in the empire, which succeeded the Roman Republic in 27 BC and was ultimately ended by the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The beads, which have a hole through the middle, were made with a multilayering technique -- a relatively sophisticated method in which craftsmen piled up layers of glass, often sandwiching gold leaf in between.
Link -via The Agitator | Photo: Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
Previously: East Asian Man Found in Roman Empire
For a bulk order of frozen pizza, our heroes headed to a Sam's Club in Nashville. That's where redditor kvnmahan spotted their tricked out station wagon. Supposedly the QR code on the window leads to the website of a rapper named Lex Top Dollar, though I can't get it to scan on my phone.
Link -via Geekologie
This jeep and its controller are scaled to match the iconic 1979 Wild Willys RC car. It was built at The Bug Box, a mechanical shop and studio in Weiden, Germany. The jeep even has the old school ribbed RC car tires.
Link (Google Translate) -via Jalopnik
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