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Geek Out

Now You Can Sleep Inside A Giant Book

11:20AM December 7, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

I’m glad someone turned something as boring and utilitarian as camping tents into something beautiful like FieldCandy’s Fully Booked tent, which is designed to look like an open book. More »

Geek Out

Why The Heck Is This Guy Using A Sheep As A Dialysis Machine?

2:40PM May 4, 2011 | Casey Chan

PETA and PETA loving people, chill. It’s not real. Well, the animals could be real but the sheep isn’t really being used as a dialysis machine. Okay. The man and sheep setup is actually part of an art piece by Revital Cohen called ‘Life Support’. It’s examines whether we could use animals as medical devices. More »

Science

Dolly The Sheep Is Alive, Alive, Alive, Alive!

10:00AM December 2, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines for being the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. She was put down in 2002. But as it turns out, Dolly’s still alive today. A scientist secretly made four copies years ago. More »

Online

Did You Mean Battleship?

2:20PM October 14, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Hey, look at that! It’s Google being funny in a print ad. More »

Entertainment

If Only Everything In Life Could Be Coded

2:40PM May 18, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

If only this trick worked, I’d actually learn to code. More »

Sheep-Shearing Robot Is Tough to Watch in Action

1:50AM May 5, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Now I’m no PETA member, and I consider a nice lamb chop to be one of life’s great pleasures, but even I get uncomfortable watching this robot do its thing to a racked-up sheep.

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Entertainment

Sheep-Powered LED Display Lights Up Welsh Hillside

3:15PM March 18, 2009 | Elaine Chow

In one of the funnest examples of merging animals with technology yet, these herders took to the hills of Wales to create huge sheep-driven LED displays. Baaaad ass!

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Gadgets

Modified New Zealand Wool Resists Blowtorches, Dog Bites, Sharp Knives

11:15AM September 13, 2008 | Wilson Rothman

Call it cliche (or just inevitable), but those sheep-herders down not-quite under have created the ultimate fabric by weaving a synthetic textile fibre called Vectran with ordinary sheep’s wool. It’s so amazing, its said to withstand blowtorches, dog bites and even knife attacks.

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