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With The Help Of HBO’s Silicon Valley, Google’s Moonshot Factory Did A Better Job Of April Fools’ Than Google
So Google itself might have stuffed up with its April Fools’ Day antics this year, but its (well, Alphabet’s) X “moonshot” factory put in a stellar effort, especially if you’re a fan of HBO’s Silicon Valley.
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This Gorgeous Solar-Powered Watch Is Less Than 3 Millimetres Thick
All you fancy people with your Pebbles, Apple Watches and Samsung Gears and what have you. There’s still a heck of a lot of life left in the humble mechanical watch. In fact, so refined are our skills in making traditional timekeepers, we now have watches like Citizen’s Eco-Drive One that are not only incredibly…
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This Kiwi Music Video Was Filmed With A Kinect And Industrial Laser Scanner
Video: New Zealand electronica artist Devin Abrams, under his solo project Pacific Heights, has just released a music video for his newest single Buried By The Burden. The video wasn’t actually filmed with any cameras, though — instead, the entire environment was depth-captured with an industrial laser scanner, while the song’s vocalist Louis Baker’s likeness…
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Watch What Happens When Gallium Touches Aluminium
Not everyone is a materials expert, so when someone asks the question “What happens when metal X touches metal Y?”, you don’t have to feel bad when you don’t know the answer. Except when it comes to gallium and aluminium, in which case you’ll sound like some sort of SCIENCE WIZZARD (feel free to put…