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Low Lai Chow
Low Lai Chow is a spacebar invader and freelance writer from Singapore. She travels light and is working on exercising demons from her past.
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Conveyor belts turned into bags
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It’s amazing what we can make stuff out of these days. Dutch company Kazmok, for instance, makes an entire bag range — such as briefcases, travel bags and even iPad sleeves — out of rubbery conveyor belts. The materials are sourced from the flower industry, postal depots, distribution centers and the recycling industry.
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Superhero portraits of people
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Portraits of people with superhero-inspired logos, illustrations and comic panes imprinted all over their faces? We are all living a bit larger-than-life these days. Artist Sandra Chevrier wields quite a bit of magic with watercolor, acrylic, pencil and collage.
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How to use your cheeks to listen to music underwater
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Two things we learnt today: there is such a thing as bone conduction technology, and it is how California-based FINIS’s Neptune music player works underwater. Traditional headphones won’t work thanks to water seeping into your ears, so bone conduction is used to transmit crystal clear audio through the cheekbone directly into the inner ear. We [...]
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Look At My Fucking Red Trousers: a blog all about un-ironic red pants
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These days I’m seeing quite a few decidedly non-hipster folks in red trousers, but wearing these without a ounce of irony. The slightly rude sounding site Look At My Fucking Red Trousers — self-described as “a collection of photographs in celebration of the vibrant and burgeoning red-trousered communities of London and elsewhere” — really say [...]
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Social afterlife in the form of… tweets
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How would you like your social life to continue long after you decease? Well, Lives On promises you a social afterlife by making sure your tweets roll long after you hit the sky. While the service is still in development, it promises to eventually be able to analyze your Twitter feed to learning about your [...]
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Chocolate prescriptions by New Zealand’s Bloomsberry
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New Zealand-based Bloomsberry carries a range of chocolate bars with witty packaging that anyone with any sort of problem would be glad to accept as a gift. There’s Bochox, for example, a 70% dark chocolate to address these pesky age-related wrinkles; the Marital Bliss chocolate that proclaims to be ’50% his 50% hers” but is [...]
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Amazing street murals in Navajo Nation
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“What’s an old black doctor man doing wheat pasting on the Navajo nation?” asks Chip Thomas on his blog. Well, the kickass Painted Desert project that gets artists to make fantastic, beautiful murals out in the vast Southwest, that’s what. Has to be seen to be believed.
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Till death do us part? This calls for a zombie wedding cake
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When a certain couple, Charles and Monica, decided to get hitched, they did it with a zombie-themed wedding cake that had random zombies climbing up a three-tiered wedding cake while the cake toppers — presumably the wedding couple — wielded a shotgun and a katana. Well, you know, if you’re going to be partners for [...]
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An illustrated guide to man boobs
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Drew Friedman did a series of illustrations for MAD Magazine depicting the various forms of man boobs. There’s enough diversity not just for one volume, but three volumes. The belt sniffers hit so close to home it’s not funny, while we’ve also seen loads of Gorillas in the Mist.
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Shock yourself to make your brains go faster… would you?
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After a Startup Weekend event in Lansing MI, the team behind GoFlow — which touts itself as a ‘collaborative brain experiment‘ — were inspired to build its own tDCS transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) machine. Now, tDCS is a neurostimulated technology that delivers electric currents directly to the brain via small electrodes. The team is now [...]
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Scrap metal creatures by Prageeth Manohansa
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Sri Lankan sculptor Prageeth Manohansa recently held his first solo exhibition in Singapore’s Galerie Steph, which includes a series of life-sized animal sculptures made out of recycled scrap metal. He started using found metal objects to create art since 2005, when he graduated with a Bachelor of Sculpture from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. [...]
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Google Street View Hyperlapse
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When Teehan+Lax Labs motion designer Jonas Naimark wanted a tool to create hyper-lapse videos with available data sets and emerging technology, the lab built just that so he could build a video with it. The result is Google Street View Hyperlapse with purposely low site settings (maximum of 60 frames per animation) for greater accessibility. [...]
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Bun B’s Jumbo Coloring and Rap Coloring Book
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Rapper Bun B and music critic Shea Serrano teamed up for Bun B’s Jumbo Coloring and Rap Activity Tumblr, a collection of rap coloring and activity pages you can print out and color. The actual book will be out this fall. Start the kids young, we say.
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Now you can subscribe to cocktails too
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These days, you can subscribe to anything in the world. We’ve already got the bacon base covered, and now we’ve discovered a subscription service to… cocktails. Every month, Julibox literally delivers two careful curated cocktail recipes to your doorstep with all the ingredients you need to mix them yourself, including the spirits and mixers. There’s [...]
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Least Helpful: Best of the Internet’s worst reviewers
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Curated by writer Hudson Hongo, Least Helpful rounds up reviews of products on Amazon from well-meaning people who unfortunately are rated as not helpful by other users instead. You’ll have to try very hard not to giggle.
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