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Month: August 2013

Nextdoor App Lets You Get to Know Your Neighbors, Virtually

If you long for the days when everyone in the neighborhood knew each other's names - and business - you'll either be delighted or horrified by Nextdoor, an app that lets you get to know your ...

7 Crazy Theories About Life, The Universe & Everything

Our universe is located inside the black hole of another universe - or it's just a holographic projection - or it's all one big computer game being played by bored super-intelligent aliens. Or ...

Street Origami: 30,000 Pieces Folded to Create Colorful Art

An urban art play in multiple acts, this staged installation colorfully spans brick walls, stone steps and wood facades as part of an art festival in Angers, France. Mademoiselle ...

Good Pie & Farewell: 10 Crusty Old Abandoned Pizzerias

Hold the anchovies and everything else! These 10 crusty old abandoned pizzerias have sliced their penultimate pepperoni and will cut the cheese no longer. ...

4 Scenes in 1 Photo: Illusion You Have to See to Disbelieve

Without proof, it makes for a tough sell - what looks like four photographs arranged into a square is indeed a single shot, meticulously staged, as only accompanying images and videos will ...

Crack the Code in London Street Art Created for Tech Fest

If you're among the attendees of international technology festival Campus Party, which will take place during the first week of September in London, you have a much better chance of cracking the ...

Book of Cities: Rise & Fall of 10 Places Over 200 Years

We take it for granted that London and New York will grace the pages of books, but would you be surprised to learn that Madrid and Cairo were once as commonly referenced, or that Mumbai and ...

House Turned Inside Out: All Walls Cut, Flipped & Reattached

An ambitious art project, the House Turned Inside Out peals away facades, those outer layers of mystery physically surrounding abandoned buildings, and reveals the internal structure. From ...

Is This 3D-Printed Robot The Future of Surveillance?

Mobile robotic surveillance devices are nothing new - you can purchase remote-controlled ones online, and the government has been developing spy gadgets that get smaller, faster and harder to spot ...

PhotoFuture: 13 Innovative & Intelligent Digital Cameras

Digital photography innovations have led to cameras that can capture images at the speed of light, see the world from the compound eye of an insect or describe scenes via speech for the visually ...

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