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Concept: visualize the contents of a hard disc
Your hard disk drive is a black box in more meanings than one. Wouldn’t it be pleasant to be able to directly visualize its contents? That is the core of the following proposal: an external hard disc drive whose surface is covered by an OLED screen used to display a treemap contents like it’s done…
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Forgotten technology: Sound mirrors
Did you know that, before the actual deployment of radar, the localisation of flying planes was done by listening to them? With a good sound mirror, you could hear the motor of a plane from very far. And a sound mirror is essentially a wall able to reflect sound (like in a subway station or…
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Please, remove the little frog
In a Pantanal fazenda, inside the room, we could find those information signs. In addition to the most usual “Do not disturb” and “make the room”, we could notice the most unusual “Please remove little frog from bathroom”. As a matter of fact, the little guy was waiting in the shower. Brazil, 2007.
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Valentine’s Day
Source: XKCD.
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X-rays of celebs and stars
The stars of show business and other stars are chased all around the world by paparazzis. Sometimes even catch them in X-ray photos. Here are the evidences: Pamela Anderson Homer Simpson Mickey Mouse
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The old table cloth trick, both ways
Link to YouTube
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Drink your coffee dangerously in Roumazeilles.net mugs
If you’re a friend of Roumazeilles.net, you may want to drink dangerously in the company of Brazilian crocodile. That is now possible at CafePress.com where I opened the Roumazeilles.net shop. Price: $15.99
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TSA recent failures
The TSA (or Transportation Security Administration) is in charge in the US of the organization the safe transportation of people in planes and through airports. Unfortunately, either they have a lot of other responsibilities (which is true) and fail at this one (which is also true), or they utterly incompetent at insuring the security of…