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Globe Making in 1955
Amazing to see how globes were made 60 years ago and how they ended up looking so beautiful.
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Tissot Heritage 1936
At 45mm wide and 12.98mm thick, the Tissot Heritage 1936 is actually large enough to be a pocket watch. In fact, the movement inside of it (a variant of the UNITAS) began its life based on the architecture of a… Read More ›
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One Pokémon card = $54,970
A Pokémon Illustrator card was sold for $54,970 at an auction held by Heritage Auctions over the weekend. Only 39 Pokémon Illustrator cards were ever released to the public, and this one happened to be a 9 out of 10… Read More ›
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Apple Watch has a special Thanksgiving Activity achievement
Apple Watch owners can get a special Activity Challenge for Thanksgiving, this November 24th. Apple Watch owners are waking up to notifications on their wrist announcing a special achievement in the Activity app, the first time Apple has done this…. Read More ›
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The Next Rembrandt
Can The Great Master Be Brought Back To Create One More Painting? Remarkably, yes. In creating the new painting, it was imperative to stay accurate to Rembrandt’s unique style. As “The Master of Light and Shadow,” Rembrandt relied on his… Read More ›
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Apple Watch 42mm Milanese Loop Strap review
A friend of mine owns the stainless Steel Apple Watch and the Milanese loop because he wants people to know he owns the stainless steep version. I’m not kidding, the reason he bought the Milanese loop was so that people… Read More ›
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What are all these Apple people working on?
I just read this. Last month, Apple told reporters that it was formally exiting the standalone display business and ceding it to partners like LG. According to a new report from Bloomberg, it may soon be doing the same thing… Read More ›
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Harry Potter wizard’s chess
Square Off, currently a Kickstarter project, brings the best of modern tech to the classic board game feel – while it looks like a standard board, it’s connected to apps and the web, and can use small magnetic trackers to… Read More ›
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A History of Hard Drives
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the venerable Hard Disk Drive (HDD). While new computers increasingly turn to Solid State Disks (SSDs) for main storage, HDDs remain the champions of low-cost, high-capacity data storage. That’s a big reason why we… Read More ›
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What’s the difference between streets, roads and avenues?
The video is somewhat US-centric, but it’s interesting to see what the differences are.
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