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Sticky Tape Magic Trick Turns Frosted Glass Clear

11:00PM April 25, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

If you’ve ever worked in a cubicle surrounded by frosted glass partitions, you may’ve seen this trick before – but for those of you who haven’t, come in and let us surprise you with this magic trick. More »


The Struggle To Find Where The Sticky Tape Begins Could Be Over

10:40AM September 4, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Whenever I use sticky tape, I find myself struggling to figure where it begins—mostly because I don’t use tape dispensers or fold back the end—but my struggle might be over thanks to this new tape concept. More »


Gadgets

Magnetic Ink Pens Let You Write Audio Messages

6:40AM September 1, 2010 | Gary Cutlack

The Rec & Play pens are part of a modern art exhibit that covers sound interaction. The red one records sound on paper, the black one plays it back. It’s no concept, it actually works. More »


Gadgets

Tape Up Your Box With Hinges

11:40PM July 23, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Tape? You use tape to tape up a box? Do you have a death wish?? More »


Cars

Would You Fly In This Plane Fixed With Tape?

4:40PM June 15, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

“I don’t believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape,” said Miles in the Lost finale. This, however, isn’t TV. This is a real aeroplane flying. And that’s real duct tape. Heat tape. UPDATED. More »


Just Chillin’ In My Gigantic Packing Tape Spider Web

10:30AM June 6, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

What’s the coolest thing you can do with 117,000 feet of packing tape? If you said anything besides building a humongous, self-supporting spider web inside a historic Viennese stock exchange, then you are oh so very wrong. Let’s explore! More »


A Brief Survey Of Recent Tape-Based Anamorphic Illusions

9:42AM February 7, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

With just a roll or two of painters tape, some patience, and a willingness to forfeit their apartments’ aesthetic respectability (except from a single perspective), some brave souls have created an impressive collection of tape-based illusions. Let’s have a look. More »


Decorating Tip: Tron-ify Everything

6:20AM July 30, 2009 | Mark Wilson

If we’d known living in Tron were this easy, well, let’s just a lifelong disfigurement from ramming head-first into a Battlezone cabinet may have been avoided. More »


When A 13-year-old From 2009 Uses A Walkman For A Week

1:40AM June 30, 2009 | Jason Chen

Here’s what happens when you give a 13-year-old from 2009 a Sony Walkman—the tape kind—and ask him to figure it out without any outside help: incredible confusion. More »


Gadgets

Calendar Tape Marks Your Organisational Crime Scenes

4:00AM April 14, 2009 | John Mahoney

I kind of like the idea of adding a monthly calendar to just about anything with this Calendar Roll tape. $US10 gets you one roll each for weekdays and full months. [ThinkGeek via BBG]

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