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• Sat nav rip off…

  By Shaun on March 29, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  An investigation by Auto Express magazine found that the cost of updating the in-built sat nav system varies by hundreds of pounds, depending on the make, model and age of your car, even though most get the mapping software from… Read More ›

• Micro-Miniature Sculptures

  By Shaun on March 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Based in Ukraine, Sergey Teterin is an artist on a microscopic scale. Using a fine-tipped burin, he sculpts minuscule bits of solid gold into sculptures measuring a fraction of a millimetre in size. Requiring two to three weeks apiece to… Read More ›

• Mark Zuckerberg Prepares For Congressional Testimony

  By Shaun on March 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  MENLO PARK, CA—Accessing the data his platform has harvested over the years from its nearly 2 billion users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly prepared Wednesday for his upcoming congressional testimony by poring over the personal information of U.S. senators and… Read More ›

• The MeisterSinger Lunascope

  By Shaun on March 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  MeisterSinger is best known for producing watches that utilize a single hand to tell time. This, of course, lends itself to a more relaxing interpretation of the traditional way we read our watches. Rather than following a to the second… Read More ›

• A mechanical Apple Watch conversion

  By Shaun on March 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “It was crafted by Till Lottermann.” via Jon Edwards.

• Holding plank for a long time is pointless

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  According to Stuart McGill, emeritus professor of spine biometrics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, fitness fanatics will see greater gains from doing shorter holds more frequently. He advises three bouts of 10 seconds as the ideal regime, and… Read More ›

• How the Brexit campaigns link up

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Tweeted by Carole Cadwalladr. I will take any excuse for a second referendum.

• The new Helvetica Smartwatch

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Eternally more interested in hyperbole and emotion than actual facts, Mondaine didn’t know by what margin, but the new watch is 40mm, compared to the 44mm of the original. In watches 4mm makes a huge difference, and this new model… Read More ›

• The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Starting around 2009, Wood and several others at Cambridge began trying to separate Hawking’s voice from the failing CallText hardware. The group would include Peter Benie, a computer guru at the university; Paweł Wozniak, a local engineering student; and Mark… Read More ›

• The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable

  By Shaun on March 25, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The latest creation from Kostas Metaxas is another daring piece of design. The Phonographic Perambulator Turntable is machined from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminum and titanium and features a lathe-turned aluminum platter base… More at uncrate. Sort of… Read More ›