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This is what happens when a drone interrupts your Christmas date

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As reported on Engadget. by Aaron Souppouris You’re on a date at TGI Friday’s, casually sipping your discount cocktail, trying to ignore the disappointed look on your partner’s face as they attempt to cut into their overcooked steak. As if this situation wasn’t awkward enough, the smooth sounds of the Billboard 100 playlist are interrupted by a high-pitched whining. A lone quadrocopter hovers above, dangling a collection of stale mistletoe leaves. Looking to make the…

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How to live for a month in virtual reality

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As reported on The Verge. Artist Mark Farid will spend 28 days as someone else in ‘Seeing I’ By Adi Robertson Next year, artist Mark Farid wants to give up a month of his life to virtual reality. If a crowdfunding campaign succeeds, he’ll spend 28 days in a gallery, wearing a VR headset and a pair of noise-canceling headphones. For the duration of the show, all he’ll experience will be video and audio captured…

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An abandoned mall in Bangkok has been overtaken by fish

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As reported The Verge. By Carl Franzen Travel writer stumbles upon a deep, dark secret There’s something particularly eerie about an abandoned shopping mall. Perhaps it’s the stark contrast from its intended purpose: to see such a sterile place once designed to entice throngs of shoppers into its doors, now so completely devoid of any human life, dilapidated and darkened with time. It’s basically the very definition of post-apocalyptic. But in the case of the (now ironically…

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Panasonic’s 4K-ready Lumix GH4 priced at $1,700, ships in late April

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER Panasonic promised it would deliver a GH mirrorless camera capable of recording 4K video for under $2,000, and now we know just how far under that is. The Lumix GH4 camera body and its 16MP CMOS Micro Four Thirds sensor will cost $1,700, while the optional YAGH pro audio/video interface unit is available for an extra $2,000. The pre-order listings on Panasonic’s website currently show an estimated ship date of late April. EOSHD.com confirms the same…

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What Musicians Can Tell Us About Dyslexia and the Brain

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As reported on Wired. BY GREG MILLER Daniel Paxton/Flickr   Dyslexia is a frustrating disorder that gives otherwise smart people trouble with reading. Nobody knows exactly what causes it, but one popular hypothesis is that the root of the problem is a deficit in the brain’s ability to process sounds, especially during childhood. Kids who have a hard time parsing all those talky sounds that grownups make also struggle to learn the connections between speech sounds and…

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Turn any Tumblr into an interactive Fractal Fest

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris IBM has created a site that will turn any Tumblr into a series of fractal images. Why? 38 years ago, one of its mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot, discovered that nature’s repetitive, complex patterns are based on simple math. Mandlebrot called these hidden patterns “fractals,” and in 1978 he and others began to visualize the formulas behind them. Fractal imagery is typified by elaborate boundaries that are recursive; when magnified,…

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Excel’s Power Maps take bar graphs to some new and mildly interesting places

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon There are only so many ways one can juice up boring Excel data, but Microsoft’s new Power Map Preview for Office 365 looks like it’s up to the challenge. The 3D map visualizer has just graduated from “project” status with a handful of features sure to please number crunchers and map lovers alike. Power Map can automatically recognize geographical data in your spreadsheets — from latitude and longitude coordinates to city or country…

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‘Could you poison your child?’: images from a century of medical propaganda

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Health, history, and design collide at the National Library of Medicine The US National Library of Medicine is much more than a library about medicine. Founded in 1836, the Maryland-based NLM is home to the world’s largest collection of biomedical resources, including old books, videos, and scientific studies. It also houses a fascinating online collection of public service announcements and health-related propaganda — a century-spanning trove of posters, advertisements, and pamphlets from…

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Researchers print biometric sensors directly on skin, make wearable health monitors more durable

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman MC10 might be best known for its wearable electronics aimed at athletes, but the company also makes a medical diagnostic sticker called abiostamp. Its creator (and MC10 co-founder), John Rogers has refined that design so that it’s no longer an elastomer sticker — now he can apply the biostamp’s thin, stretchy electronics directly on human skin, and bond it with commercially available spray-on bandage material. By losing the elastomer backing of the…

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The ghostly photographs of President Truman’s White House renovation

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor In the late 1940s, then-President Harry S. Truman called for a massive renovation of the White House, which, at 150-years-old, was in dire need of an upgrade. The result was a comprehensive overhaul, as workers completely gutted the interior, leaving only the mansion’s exterior intact. National Journal has compiled some of the most stunning photographs from the project, providing a rare glimpse at one of America’s most iconic buildings in a…

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