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Unusual Maps

Unusual Maps

Hideous monsters devouring ships? Cryptic symbols, correctly showing storm fronts & dangerous currents I’ve always been fond of maps, from those antique ones showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past. Maps have, of course, been with us in one form or another, for a long time. Jerusalem...
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Extreme Sleeping, Part 2

Extreme Sleeping, Part 2

Sweet dreams are only part of the story Like any extreme activity, it requires the nerves of steel, good choice of timing, location and the absence of suspicious cops. All this however is easier to achieve, because you are, well… asleep, so you can trust the unseen powers to take care of the rest. Long & restful sleep is by no means guaranteed, but perhaps somebody will take your picture and you’ll wake up...
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Extreme Sleeping

Extreme Sleeping

Tired! (Getting sleep, no matter what) Planning to sleep in on a weekend, get some well deserved rest? Check out these extreme sleep positions… We’ve covered the emergence of this new urban “sport” before . Since then, new sleep yoga tips and tricks were captured on camera… among them: “Rope sleeping” seems to be a good new way to train athletes: (this is training in Chinese Army...
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The Machine-Animals of Nantes

The Machine-Animals of Nantes

Your Essential Steampunk Stable & Garage French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: “Les Machines de l’Ile Nantes”, designed by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice. Claude Joannis has a few photographs that’ll give you some idea about how extraordinary cool this exhibition is (the first on my list of museums to visit, if possible!) (all...
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Decorative And Funny Robot Creations

Decorative And Funny Robot Creations

Some of them are cute, all are ingenious Paul Loughridge has a little army of robots that he’s preparing to unleash upon the world. He may not be the only one (see our previous post), but he’s certainly one of the most talented. “Lockwasher Design” (his website) displays some robots and guns, but most of the recent work is kept in his Flickr account. With Paul’s exclusive permission, we give you...
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Bio Robots

Bio Robots

Swat that fly! It’s spying on you! The future is friendly, even to bugs. They get to be transformed into flying cybernetic machines; all you have to do is spray area around yourself if you decide to do something private. Seriously, even if these insectoids “break down” sometimes - …the trees and the plants will carry on “eyeing” you, and even point their cute little guns at you: Israel...
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