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Unglamorous Space Catastrophes That You'll Never See In A Movie
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How Much Would It Cost To Build The Starship Enterprise?
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Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For A Living)
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Google Just Went And Fixed The Samsung Galaxy S4
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The Most Fun Photocopier Teardown You’ll Ever See
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Like the Science Guy before him, Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy takes stuff you ordinarily might not be interested in – like how exactly a photocopier works – and makes it fun and digestible. Now where’s the Taxes Guy.
Welcome To The Future, Tables
Henceforth, all four-legged tables shall have at least one hollow leg which shall be named the magic leg. And should a table have more than one magic leg – a rare splendour – they shall be named the magic legs.
The Copy Machine Is 50 Years Old Today
Dearest copier, thank you for making office tasks simpler, tolerating our very NSFW pranks, and frustrating us with error messages for over 50 years.
Sex, Blood And Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On A Scanner
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It’s one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It’s another to do it well. With Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it.
World’s First 3D Photocopier Goes On Sale For $US17,000
Ortery’s Photosimile 5000 3D photocopier has taken two years to go on sale since it first surfaced in 2008, providing digital 3D replicas of whatever object you place inside it. Think of the possibilities!
Hands On: Herman Miller Envelop Reclining Desk
The sister product to the amazing Herman Miller Embody chair, the Envelop desk actually slides out and down on rails to give you the correct angle for working while in incline. It’s amazing.
