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The Pop-up Book of Phobias from donvanone on Vimeo.

What's that smell??

NASA isn’t just good for bringing you awesome space pictures; they can now help you figure out, via your iPhone, if that really is gas you’re smelling. Their chemical-sniffing device is about the size of a postage stamp and plugs into the iPhone to collect and transmit data from its sensor. It uses a “sample jet” to detect chemicals like ammonia, chlorine gas, and methane, even in low concentration. The device’s multiple-channel silicon-based sensing chip consists of 64 nanosensors; after analyzing a sample it can send data via a telephone network or Wi-Fi.

I now pronounce you husband and virtual (videogame) wife

Alternative uses for your laptop

Shutdown Day is a concept started in 2007 by a group of friends in Montreal who noticed they were spending far too much time on their computers. They pledged to shut down their computers for a whole 24 hours and spend that time reconnecting with family and friends, getting out and doing physical activities, and just enjoying the computer-free day. To get people behind the idea of going without their beloved computers for a whole day, the crazy geniuses behind the idea made this video showing some of the alternative uses for your unused laptop! 

Now there are even  more ways to abuse your poor laptop on its one day off per year – or anytime you feel like getting some revenge. Uncovering.org bring  you an entire photo series detailing just what you can do with that expensive piece of technology while you’re not using it to compute.

I think I'll just leave mine to rest peacefully on the table... but hey, I'm a bit boring sometimes!

Humans might not have to walk ever again!

It looks remarkably uncomfortable, and with a top speed of 4 miles per hour it wouldn’t be hard to walk faster than this thing can take you. But at 22 pounds, it’s light enough to load into the trunk of your car so that you can avoid any actual walking at all. As pointed out by Britain’s Daily Mail, this smacks of Wall-E-esque future laziness. Do we really need yet another device that allows us to be lazy? According to Honda, the unicycles are meant to be used by the elderly, who may have mobility problems. However, a unicycle steered by body weight distribution may not be the best solution for seniors who aren’t able to walk steadily. In fact, it seems almost intentionally dangerous.

But the technology is pretty cool though!

Put a smile on your face!

That's got to hurt! But atleast UCLA grad student Lauren McCarthy has come up with an ingenious, if painful, way to make the world a happier place: drive a metal spike into the head of those who dare to stop smiling. Her hilarious Happiness Hat is the first part of a planned series of tools for improved social interaction.

Secret knock door unlocker!

yes it actually does work! Steve Hoefer went and cobbled together a few odd bits and pieces from his lab to make this simple but fully functional secret knock-detecting door lock. Absolutely brilliant!

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Modern Fossils

Technology-wise, the past ten or twenty years has been a Level 5 Hurricane. The Internet, iPods, Alt-fuel cars, viable wind power, portable GPS navigators, social networking and all the rest of it has reshaped almost every aspect of our daily lives. Recording the recent past in a most unusual way, these are the Modern Fossils from artist Christopher Locke’s Heartless Machine

There is a message in Locke’s madness. Apart from a cool, humorous nostalgia, Locke asserts that many of the once hi-tech “species” went extinct thanks to “runaway consumerism and wastefulness at the high end of the food chain.”