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Lovely Craig Ferguson rant on the cult of youth and stupidity

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From PhysOrg:

The acrylic intraocular lenses are implanted into animals’ eyes when their vision has clouded to the point of total impairment, and are fitted for various species, from…

Grind on your pets, starting with contact lenses for animals

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Doug Rushkoff’s appearance on The Colbert Report. Great to see his book Life, Inc getting increased exposure!

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Rushkoff vs Colbert

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From Mashable:

How would you like to be able to point your iPhone towards an object – the Eiffel Tower, for example – and instantly see the admission price, working hours, its height and other…

AR may be built into future iPhones

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Via BoingBoing Gadgets comes the amazing transformations of Alex Kovas

Here’s a walk through of his transformation, not quite as easy…

Alex Kovas – manimal!

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MIT’s Spacebook project looks to be a very interesting exploration of post-privacy:

Spacebook is a project to design an interactive house whose walls gradually change in transparency with…

spacebook – an interactive, post-privacy house

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From A Distinctive World:

The Autonomobile (ATNMBL) is a concept car is designed around passenger, rather than driver, experience with architectural styling, a lounge-like interior and…

The Autonomobile – a passengercentric, driverless car

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From PhysOrg:

The methods that are currently used to stimulate nerve signals in the nervous system are based on electrical stimulation. Examples of this are…

Artificial nerve cells that much closer

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3D printing service Shapeways are now offering QRCode stamps, so you can do cool stuff like this:

Here’s how they did it:

1. I went to a QR code generator, typed in the URL and…

make your own QRCode stamps with Shapeways

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This one’s a bit old, from 2006, but I’m pretty sure we haven’t posted it before.

The first eight minutes are a brief background in the kingdoms of biology. The second half is where it’s at,…

Kevin Kelly’s TED talk on how technology evolves

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