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Augmented Reality Finger Billboard Prods, Destroys Passersby
2:20AM John Herrman | Chris O’Shea, an artist with latent fantasies about growing into a giant and teasing, then destroying, the people of Liverpool, England, has a new installation! It’s a live video billboard that teases, then destroys, the people of Liverpool, England. More »
GPS
Ancient Man Used Stone “Sat Nav” 5000 Years Ago
10:20AM Sean Fallon | New research is suggesting that Stone Age Britons were arranging hilltop monuments in an elaborate grid of isosceles triangles—allowing travellers to navigate the country without maps. Apparently, these markers included famous sites like Stonehenge and The Mount. More »
Random Stuff
Britain Putting CCTV Cameras In Homes To Make Sure Kids Do Their Homework
12:20AM Adam Frucci | Thousands of “the worst families in England” are being put in “sin bins,” or subsidised housing outfitted with closed-circuit cameras. The cameras will be used to ensure that children do their homework and go to bed on time. Holy shit. More »
Vehicles
Tiny Oil Tanker Makes Pilots Better Trained, Slightly Awkward
1:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The Warsash Maritime Academy in the UK uses these $US245,000 miniature oil tankers to train its pilots—they’re incredibly difficult to drive, and simulate all kinds of different emergency situations, all while looking like a coin-operated children’s ride. More »
Vehicles
Extremely Confident Man Builds Extremely Tiny Car
4:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Possibly the smallest street-legal car in the world, the 39-inch high, 26-inch wide, cheekily-painted project was made by a British man out of one of those coin-operated children’s rides.
Vehicles
Defenseless Elderly Woman Held Hostage by Maniacal Scooter
8:45AM Dan Nosowitz | As predicted by Battlestar Galactica, machines are beginning their takeover. An elderly woman in Cornwall, England was seated peacefully on her supposedly-helpful scooter when the iron-hearted machine forcefully drove her onto a highway without permission. More »
Online
Buckinghamshire, UK Says ‘GTFO’ to Google Street View Via Mob
2:00PM Andi Wang | Due to a string of recent burglaries, residents of Buckinghamshire had been on the lookout for any suspicious vehicles nearby—so naturally, the Google Street View car was welcomed to the neighbourhood with an old-fashioned mob. More »
Toys
16-Foot Tall Lego Pharaoh Floats Down the River Thames
10:00AM Sean Fallon | Holy crippity crap! It’s a giant Lego pharaoh floating down river Thames. Have mummies in the British museum come back as zombies to find that Lego is easier to build with than stone? Not quite. More »
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