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  • Rolex Oyster Cosmograph & Documentation, ca. 1971

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    Travel with ANTIQUES ROADSHOW to Bonanzaville in West Fargo for the biggest find of the season, and watch as the owner is floored by the appraisal–literally! This is insane!

  • Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

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    Our testing, using Ring for Android version 3.21.1, revealed PII delivery to branch.io, mixpanel.com, appsflyer.com and facebook.com. Facebook, via its Graph API, is alerted when the app is opened and upon device actions such as app deactivation after screen lock… Read More ›

  • The new King Turtles

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    The bezel features two upgrades. The insert is now ceramic, which I recall people asking for way back when the Turtle first hit the market, and the grip-able pattern along the bezel’s edge now features a harder, more angular groove… Read More ›

  • Things Come Apart 2.0

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    In Things Come Apart, fifty design classics arranged by size and intricacy are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills. Welcome to Todd McLellan s unique photographic vision of the material world…. Read More ›

  • 2048 Balls 3D

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    I don’t mention games often, but I saw my wife playing 2048 Balls 3D and it seemed interesting. You need to pay £2.99 to remove the ads, they are persistent to say the least, but it ends up being a… Read More ›

  • The perfect iPhone?!?

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    I found an iPhone 3GS in a drawer and I have to say it is a revelation. That sounds ridiculous for a phone that is so old and which has been improved upon countless times, but roll it around in… Read More ›

  • The ugliest colour in the world

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    Pantone 448 C, also known as the “The ugliest colour in the world”, is a colour in the Pantone colour system. Described as a “drab dark brown”, it was selected in 2016 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette… Read More ›

  • A Perfectly Useless Afternoon

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    Aptly titled ‘A Perfectly Useless Afternoon’, the watch comes set against the backdrop of a swimming pool, with two transparent discs that rotate to tell the time. One of the discs holds a floating rubber-duckie while the other, a human… Read More ›

  • It ends!

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    I guess that many of us thought that Desert Golfing would never end, but this tweet proves otherwise. I realise that there is a scary Chinese virus spreading around the world and that Trump is set on destroying the world… Read More ›

  • The A. Lange & Söhne Lange 1

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    Since introducing the model, A. Lange & Söhne has done a great deal of experimentation with the Lange 1, from the introduction of new hand-wound movements to the development of cutting-edge case materials, including something called “honey gold.” They’ve even… Read More ›