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Interactive Mirror Fulfils Your Manimal Fantasies

6:00AM January 31, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

Ever wish you were a goat? Of course you have! Good news: Borrowing some basic concepts from Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride, artist Karolina Sobecka modified this mirror to make your dreams come true. More »

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Would You Read The News While Brushing Your Teeth?

12:00PM September 2, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

The New York Times Company’s Research and Development Lab studies novel ways to deliver news to people. Their latest creation is a bathroom mirror that uses Microsoft Kinect to detect motion and deliver a stream of news while you comb your hair or put on your makeup. More »

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What Important Scientific Breakthrough ‘Stirs Considerable Passion In The Breasts Of Physicists’?

12:40AM June 7, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

If proven true, the theoretical physicist John Pendry’s hyperbolic statement won’t just apply to physicists’ breasts, as who isn’t excited by the suggestion that empty space is far from empty. In fact, it might be possible to make sparks fly. More »

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Super Duper Roasting Coffee With Hundreds Of Robot Mirrors

12:00PM June 2, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Solar Roast’s current sun-powered coffee-roasting machine, the Helios 4, is composed of 600 mirrors and weighs 5000kg. But they need a bigger one. The Helios 5. And your money to build it. More »

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The Mojave Desert Solar Farm With More Mirrors Than A Lady Gaga Funhouse Of Horrors

1:30AM June 2, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

As nuclear power continues to fall out of favour, California is making big investments in alternative energy sources to meet rising demand. One of its most ambitious projects will use the Mojave sun to power over a quarter million homes. More »

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How The Webb Telescope’s Beryllium Mirrors Reflect Reality On Earth

7:47AM May 26, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

“Mirrors, mirrors on the Webb, who in the land is fairest of all?” project scientist Mark Clampin asked six of the mirrors to be built on the Webb Space Telescope. More »

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Deception Of Reflection Mirror Hopes To Get You To Look At Yourself Differently

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5:30PM May 16, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Aussie designer John Leung, the mind behind most of the concepts we’ve seen from Melbourne architects Clarke Hopkins Clarke, has come up with one final design ebefore going out on his own. The Deception of Reflection mirror uses a honeycomb structure in the frame to make it seem like the frame is a different colour in its reflection. More »

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Super Roasting Coffee With 600 Mirrors And A Giant Ball Of Fire

8:40AM April 30, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

A not atypical coffee roaster, like an old-school Probat favoured by Stumptown, looks like this (or this). Not a small machine. Unless you compare it to Dave Hartkop’s Helios 4, a solar-powered coffee roaster. More »

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Teen Glued 5800 Mirrors Onto Satellite Dish For SOLAR DEATH-RAY

8:20PM January 31, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

There’s something very incongruous about Eric Jacqmain’s video where he demonstrates a solar death-ray with the intensity of 5000 suns (or so he claims)… backed by plip-plop music you’d normally find in a day spa. More »

3D Mirror Accessory Turns iPhones Into Fun 3D Cinemas

8:20AM November 16, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Whoa. While you can’t actually buy this i3DG peripheral for your iPhone yet, I’m already imagining playing 3D games created especially for it. You can kiss the 3DS buh-bye. More »