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Artist Makes Creepy Self-Portraits Using His Own Frozen Blood

Many years ago British artist Marc Quinn started an art project where he created cast self-portraits using his own frozen blood. On one hand, it’s incredibly creepy and unsettling. But on the other, how many artists’ can turn to their creations during a medical emergency?


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Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Rocks Out To AC/DC While He Gets Hit By Lightning Bolts

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You may have heard of ArcAttack!, the electronic rock group that makes use of a robotic drummer and Tesla coils to generate music via interpreted MIDI tracks. In this clip, Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame is locked inside a Faraday cage while bolts of electricity from the coils zap harmlessly against it. The band’s tune of choice? AC/DC’s “Back in Black”. I must say, it’s quite a sight.


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13 Ways To Smuggle Your Booze

Weekends were made for booze, but there’s a catch. Footy games, parks, concerts and bars: none of them allow you to bring in your own booze. We’re not saying you should break the rules and bring clandestine beverages into such locations, but if you wanted to, here are some great ways to do it.


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Watch A Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

Tupac hologram, you were amazing. Beautiful girl in lingerie hologram, you might be even better. A lingerie store in France called Empreinte is using a hologram woman in lingerie after the store closes to attract people. I think it’s working.


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Good News Kodak, This Little Black Dress Has Found A New Use For Film

When the lights are off, Emily Steel’s Little Slide Dress just looks like your standard black cocktail dress. But it’s hiding a secret that’s revealed when she turns on its embedded array of LEDs.


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A Tasty Bread For The Gluten-Intolerant

As a baby, I was diagnosed with celiac disease — my body is unable to process gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and malt, that gives bread its elastic quality. If I eat it, I throw up, so I avoid gluten entirely. It’s mostly easy; avoid breaded foods and sadly, beer.


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Life, If Everything Was Reversed

Ryan Jay and Alexander Shahmiri created Life Backwards, a little short showing what life would look like if it was all in reverse. It’s hypnotic and tickles that part of your brain that’s been numbed by too much normalcy.


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Iran Is Building ‘New’ Helicopters Based Around 50-Year-Old US Technology

Iran’s military, purported haters of the west and all things American, revealed designs for new helicopters which will be “100 Per Cent Made In Iran.” But for all their grandstanding, there’s one detail that shouldn’t be overlooked: it’s based on 50-year-old US technology.


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Season Your Food With Salt Made From Real Human Tears

Would you like to season your french fries with some anger? No, really. I’m not being aggressive. Would you? Because the folks at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies have gotten really weird with it and made a line of salts from different types of human tears.


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This Spinning Indoor Garden Was Built Using NASA Technology

What was once intended to be a garden for outerspace could someday be a garden for your living room. The DesignLibero Green Wheel is a planter box fashioned into a rotating wheel, offering the benefit of light and space economy for small, sun-starved environments.