| Firing of the World's First 3D-Printed Gun Documented On Video | | Can guns really be 3D-printed? The answer to that question is a simple yes. If you don't believe it, just watch Cody Wilson, the man behind the world's first 3D-printed gun, firing the weapon on video. Following a test firing, documented by Forbes, in which a string was used to pull the trigger, Wilson now took the gun into his hands and successfully fired it.
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| This Mask Gives You Superhuman Abilities | | Fans of "Iron Man," take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing. The first prototype covers the wearer's ears, mouth and nose and uses a directional microphone to give him the ability to hear an isolated sound in a noisy environment. For example, you could target a person in a crowd and clearly hear his words without the surrounding noise.
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| Digital Camera Features Designs Inspired by Bug Eyes | | Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of arthropods — that is, animals such as insects, spiders and crustaceans. Instead of the single-lens eyes that humans have, compound eyes are made up of many small visual units.
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| YouTube Launching Paid Subscriptions to Some Video Channels: Report | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:25 PM | Anita Li |
| YouTube is set to launch a paid subscription model for its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to a report. The move, which has been in development for months, aims to help channels finance a wider range of content such as television shows and films, and will serve as another source of revenue, according to the Financial Times.
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| 11 Epic Graduation Falls Worth a Diploma | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 8:58 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Hang in there, seniors. The light at the end of the tunnel is just a couple exams away. Whether you're embarking on the next step into high school, college, or this is finally the end, there is nothing sweeter than walking across that stage and taking your rightfully earned diploma. SEE ALSO: High School Graduates Perform Nostalgic Pop Music Medley But don't think it's all downhill from here just yet, unless you literally mean it.
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| 12 Excellent Etsy Shops for Mother's Day Gifts | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 7:30 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| You appreciate your mother year-round, but Mother's Day is the time to really show your appreciation. However, finding the perfect gift for the woman who helped you become the person you are (and probably made a lot of sacrifices to do so) isn't a simple task. SEE ALSO: 11 Terrific Tech Gifts for Mom To help you with the shopping process, we've rounded up 12 Etsy shops that offer great Mother's Day gift options.
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| Kinetic Floor Generates Energy From People Dancing | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 6:42 PM | PSFK |
| Around the world, engineers and architects are rethinking the current design of architectural and environmental infrastructure, in favor of regenerative systems that are capable of harnessing wasted energy and resources and redistributing them where needed. A company in Rotterdam in the Netherlands has created a modular dance floor system that collects kinetic energy from dancers' movements and converts it into electricity.
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| Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Cracks Jokes During Commencement Speech | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 3:55 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| "When I was your age we didn't have the Internet in our pants," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joked, flaunting his phone, at his University of Michigan commencement speech. "We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants — that's how bad it was." That was among Costolo's lines that incited UM's 2013 graduating class to break out in laughter Saturday at Michigan Stadium.
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| Beer Drones To Deliver Brew to Concertgoers | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 3:00 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Thirsty music festivalgoers in South Africa this summer may be able to get beer instantly delivered to them — via drones. During August's OppiKoppi Music Festival, attendees can order beers from their phones to be delivered the event's District 9 campsite. The beer-equipped drones will swoop down and deliver beer via parachute to the appropriate customer, as explained in the video above.
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| This Tiny Town Is Getting Ultra-Fast Google Fiber Before You | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:00 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Google continues to expand its Google Fiber service to more cities, adding a small city in Kansas to the lucky places slated to get the search giant's ultrafast broadband connections. The city council in Shawnee, Kansas — population just upward of 60,000 people — approved the Google Fiber expansion Thursday night. Shawnee joins Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah, as the latest Google Fiber additions in the past month.
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| 10 Pics From My Dog's Google Glass | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 1:19 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Humans are foaming at the mouth over Google Glass. The tiny projection screen, voice commands and user-friendly experience could very well be the technology of the future.
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| Get Psyched for 'Iron Man 3' With This Superhero Remix | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:45 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Tony Stark makes his epic return to the big screen this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, but it's been a while since we've been privy to the superhero's — shall we say — swagger? Ease yourself back into Stark's world of wealth and fighting evil with the "Iron Man Trilogy Remix" by YouTuber relmvision.
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| Watch Hugh Jackman Answer Twitter Users' 'Wolverine' Questions | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:14 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman unleashed a series of YouTube videos this week in which he answered 11 Twitter users' questions about The Wolverine movie. Fans submitted questions via Twitter using hashtags #AskHugh and #TheWolverine. Jackman, who is playing the disgruntled hero with regenerative abilities for the sixth time in the X-Men film franchise, tweeted his answers and links to the videos on his @RealHughJackman account.
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| 15 Notes That Prove Kids Write the Darndest Things | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:53 AM | Neha Prakash |
| Children. Those precocious, adorable, sassy little humans. As any parent can tell you, kids are oh, so awesome and oh, so witty when you least expect it. And especially so when you give them a pen and a piece of paper (or for the 21st-century family: a tablet). Bill Cosby may have proven that kids say the darndest things, but clearly kids have no issues writing some pretty darn funny stuff.
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| 'SNL' Mocks How Google Glass Can Be Used 'Discreetly' | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 11:13 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| There has been a lot of chatter about how Google Glass will allow us to do things more discreetly. For example, the new gadget lets you take a photo with a slow wink or tweet with your eyes.
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| 5 Reasons Informational Interviews Are Important | | Sunday, May 05, 2013 10:10 AM | Jennifer Parris |
| There is a strategic tool to help you find a job faster, and it's rarely taken advantage of: the informational interview. And an informational interview is just what it sounds like. It’s not a job interview, where you’re vying with oodles of other candidates for one coveted position. It is simply a request to gain further information about a career you might be interested in, or a company you would like to work for.
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