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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Science

‘It’s Possible to Receive a Small and Quick Electrical Shock From Your Earbuds While Listening to iPod’

7:35PM John Herrman | From Apple’s support pages, a warning about potential static electricity buildup in earbuds, in which Apple has been reduced to explaining basic physics to its customers. [via Crave UK] More »
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Toys

Olga and Victor’s Wonderful Van der Graaf Levitation Toys

12:00PM John Mahoney | The aptly named “Fun Fly Stick” houses a mini Van der Graaf generator that produces enough static electricity to give shape to the levitating foil webbing. [Toy Fair 2009] More »
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Random Stuff

Anti-Static Shoes Will Make Sure Rich Bachelors Cling to You

3:20PM Elaine Chow | All you entrepreneurial gold-digging nurses out there, listen up. Your efforts to marry that rich, sick dude are for nothing if you don’t have this handy object in your repertoire: anti-static shoes. [Japan Probe] More »
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