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Cars

Print Your Own ’69 Mustang

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3:00PM October 4, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Pretty sweet ride, right? Sweet right up until the point that you get into it and it crumples, or simply melts away in the rain; this is a full-scale 1969 Mustang made entirely of paper. More »


Gadgets

Turn Your iPod Touch Into A Fingerprint Scanner

5:48AM May 20, 2011 | Casey Chan

I got my fingerprints done the other day (no, I wasn’t in trouble), and I was surprised at how stone-aged the whole process was. The FbF MobileOne actually smartens up fingerprintin’—it uses an iPod Touch to grab ‘em. More »


Science

Print Your Own Skin

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5:15PM February 22, 2011 | Daniel Long

In what sounds like a scene from Robocop or The Terminator, scientists have invented an artificial skin printer, inspired by inkjet printers that could one day print skin which behaves in the same way as living tissue. More »


A Century Of Popular Science

1:20AM November 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

How has Popular Science changed since it was first published in the late 1800s? It got a whole lot more colourful, for one thing. Here’s 125 years of the magazine’s history captured in one massive 74 million square pixel image. More »


Software

Apple And News Corp To Announce The Daily At December Event?

1:18AM November 24, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

It seems like Apple and News Corp are indeed in cahoots on The Daily, a new iPad-only newspaper that would be the first support the iTunes subscription billing, and John Gruber says he’s hearing December 9 as a potential date for it’s announcement event. The 9th, he notes, is a Thursday, so it’s possible it might get pushed to the week after, perhaps arriving along with the Mac App Store. [Daring Fireball via SAI] More »


Entertainment

The Next Playboy Centrefold Will Be In 3D

11:40PM May 11, 2010 | Mark Wilson

When Hugh Hefner launched Playboy back in the ’50s, he hired a photographer to shoot two nude women in 3D. But the price of bundling anaglyph glasses with the magazine was too high. This week, Hef’s dream becomes reality. More »


Geek Out

How 3.6 Zettabytes Of Data Get Consumed

10:20AM December 11, 2009 | Brian Barrett

You probably already saw that the average American tears through 34GB of data per person per day. Here’s how the media has evolved these last few decades (sorry print), and below a way to compare your consumption with Joe Average. More »


Computing

Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks

9:00PM September 30, 2009 | Brian Lam

Steve Jobs said people don’t read any more. But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.” And they’re not just going for ebooks and mags. They’re aiming to redefine print. More »


The Kaleidoscopic Dance Of The Inkjet Printer

12:00PM July 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

It probably isn’t the most environmentally-friendly idea, but we love this stop-motion video of a bunch of HP printers busting out some sweet paper-and-ink patterns to an electro soundtrack. Check it out, you’ll like it. [Vimeo via Crunchgear] More »


10 Ways Tech Magazines Are Failing Readers

5:59AM March 26, 2009 | Brian Lam

Mike Elgan, former editor-in-chief for Windows Magazine, writes a great column on how gadgets blogs fail readers. It’s solid feedback and tough love. Here’s my list on why Tech Magazines are failing readers:

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