I like these ice records by artist Katie Paterson. She recorded sounds from a number of melting Icelandic glaciers, then pressed the recordings into ice to make single use records.
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Ice records play glacier sounds
The Espresso Italiano offers an adjustable built-in ceramic disc grinder with auto shut-off, tri-colored digital display with three different colors to help easily identify the functions of the display screen, programmable brew buttons, RapidSteam means no waiting between frothing milk and brewing espresso. The OptiDose adjustable doser regulates the amount of beans to grind per serving and a swivel base allows for convenient rotation.
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SAVE $300 on Saeco 00566 Espresso Italiano Super Automatic Espresso Machine
In a previous post , we shared with you ideas on how to keep your iPhone looking spankin’ new even after using it for quite some time. We bring you a few more of these protective cases, as they will not only serve the purpose of protecting your iPhones – you can share the “love and protection” and give them away as presents to other iPhone buddies this holiday season! Case-Mate Barely There Hipster combo . This combination of case and holster ensures protection for your iPhone all around – whether it is resting comfortably on your hips or being used out in the open.
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Keep iPhones Spankin’ New for a Long Time
Staples was cheated out of more than a hundred thousand dollars, and the men who initially pulled it off are now paying the price. A man from Loveland, Ohio was found by a federal jury to be guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The conviction was actually the result of the participation of the accused – Paul Shumbayaonda – in a scam that enabled him to purchase cameras, printers and computers from Staples for next to nothing, thanks to a friend who worked as a customer service representative at a Staples call center.
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20 Years in Prison for ‘Discounted’ Printers at Staples
Intel’s High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won’t Be Released Anytime Soon [Intel] Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn’t ever coming out “as standalone discrete product,” because they’re behind where they’d hoped to be in development, meaning you won’t be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon. And you have to figure that’s pretty far behind, since the Larrabee launch timeframe was 2009/2010.
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Intel’s High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won’t Be Released Anytime Soon [Intel]
7 Favorite Ways to Say Goodbye (For Now) [Danny Allen] It’s been an amazing ride on the Gizmodo train, but this is my stop; my last daily post. I’ll be swinging by for some cool features we’ve got planned…but for now, I leave you with 7 of my favorite posts… From hilarious TV scams to amateur space photography, to personally overdosing on caffeine in the name of pseudo-science, the early morning shift has let me cover stuff you just don’t see anywhere else but Giz. But it’s time to spread the freelance wings.
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7 Favorite Ways to Say Goodbye (For Now) [Danny Allen]
If you’re in Phoenix tonight or tomorrow, don’t miss this awesome (and big) show at Bragg’s Pie Factory. Pictured above is Kris Waid-Jones’ “Cherry Bomb Pie” (cast entirely in aluminum, even the cherries), various carved soap objects by Ann Morton, and a piece by Andrew Hadle. Grand Delusion An Exhibition of Works by School or Art Students in Fibers and Sculpture Bragg’s Pie Factory 1301 NW Grand Avenue (enter on McKinley) Phoenix, AZ Opening Reception: First Friday, December 4th, 2009 6:30pm – 10:30pm Closing reception: Saturday, December 5th, 2009 6:30pm – 8:30pm Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this!
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Grand Delusion art show in Phoenix tonight
“Security is mostly a superstition,” wrote Helen Keller. “It does not exist in nature..
Build a fun-for-all-ages mini car launcher for next to nothing. Thanks go to Nancy Dorsner for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Rubber Band Power video click here and subscribe in iTunes
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Weekend Project: Rubber Band Power
Spotted over @ Matrixsynth , is this unusually fleshy-looking fingerboard synth known as the Imesco polifónico. Not much info aside from what the demo vids show us and some incidental descrips translated from YouTube- this is the same instrument that was introduced some time ago, now a little over, also lack enough practice since the video was done in haste, […] with a little practice you can play continuously, alternating between the surface and color sector Fairly certain I saw one of these used by a lounge act in Existenz .
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Bizarre polyphonic synth looks like it might have a pulse
It’s the holiday season, and if you’re stuck in an airport, this is a great opportunity to have some ham radio fun! You can listen to air traffic of flights as they take off and land. I find this amusing because it’s like listening to a live airport reality TV show that you’re a part of. You learn a lot about how the coordination of flights.
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Ham radio fun for holiday air travel
A group effort from the minds and hands of Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Kuribara Yusaku & Ishikawa Masatoshi – scoreLight (we covered an earlier demo prior) can be seen above fascinating visitor’s to Tokyo’s Miraikan science museum – “scoreLight” is a prototype musical instrument capable of generating sound in real time from the lines of doodles as well as from the contours of three-dimensional objects nearby (hands, dancer’s silhouette, architectural details, etc). There is no camera nor projector: a laser spot explores the shape as a pick-up head would search for sound over the surface of a vinyl record – with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself. The light beam follows these countours in the very same way a blind person uses a white cane to stick to a guidance route on the street.
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Confine Your Baby in a Motorised Suitcase Concept [Concepts] It’s like someone actually thought the adult-sized vehicles in Wall-E were a good idea. Thankfully, like with most things on Yanko Design, this individual baby confinement torture-device is just a concept, but it’s also a scary insight into someone’s mind. That someone being designer Pouyan Mokhtarani, whose baby buggy contains a LED screen so you can gurgle and babble away at your baby from a distance, lest you pick up diseases from it, and the air purification unit ensures your baby breathes nothing but the cleanest oxygen
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Confine Your Baby in a Motorised Suitcase Concept [Concepts]
Google Ending Unlimited Free Access To Subscription News [Google] The days of bypassing subscription fees on Google News appear to be numbered now that Google has updated their First Click Free program. Publishers can now limit access to five articles per day before readers are routed to payment pages. Previously, publishers had to make a choice between making their content less discoverable on Google or allowing unlimited access to subscription content via Google News.
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The Engadget Show: Kindle etching and DIY adventures with Adafruit Industries . Some footage and a tour of the show at Adafruit, I hang out there quite a bit 
Josh writes – If you’ll recall, some months ago we held a little competition for readers to submit artwork destined for laser-etching on the backsides of Amazon’s Kindle.
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Kindle etching and DIY adventures (video)
[Warning - abruptly loud bits around the 1m50s mark] Dave Wright ‘s Magneto-Conga percussion sequencer is just dripping with handmade DIY awesomeness – using three Hall Effect Sensors dc speaker is pulse width modulated for speed control mangets are placed on spinning mole can to make rhythms three channels – as many magnets are you can fit on it i only have four magnets right now sorry three twin-tee drum tones and small amp i was lazy and put them all on the same transformer im going to put another supply in just for the audio section but the motor interacting w/ the amp is funny was orig built on piece of wood as base – and then built case around unit from scrap See more of Dave’s work over at not breathing [via Matrixsynth ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Digg this!
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Curiously cool magnetic beat sequencer
Remainders – Good and Bad Stuff We Didn’t Post (And Why) [Remainders] iPhone Provider rumors, crazy putty, Japanese security systems and Dell smartphones are showing up in the remainders today. Plus, four things we actually like, but aren’t gadgety enough to post. Some analyst says that T-Mobile, and not Verizon, is going to be getting the iPhone when AT&T’s exclusivity ends
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Remainders – Good and Bad Stuff We Didn’t Post (And Why) [Remainders]
Optical Sensor-Laden Skin Gives Robots a Softer Touch [Robots] As robots become more involved in delicate tasks such as autopsies or surgeries, we need their touch to be as precise and sensitive as possible. To have that, we’ll need to give them a skin-like surface full of optical sensors . Existing sensors, which are essentially pressure switches, don’t detect subtle changes in pressure or texture, which translated into an extreme scenario could mean you’d get your bones pulverized by a robot hand
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Optical Sensor-Laden Skin Gives Robots a Softer Touch [Robots]
ASUS brings you convenient mobile computing with powerful features and all of the tools you need to stay productive. The ASUS P50IJ-X1 comes equipped with an Intel Pentium Dual Core and 4GB of memory so you can run even the most demanding applications confidently. The included 320GB hard disk allows you to work on your most important files, whether they’re large images, videos or more! The 16-inch display gives you all of the viewing real estate you need to finish tasks without feeling cramped
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SAVE $150 on ASUS P50IJ-X1 NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T4300
Twitter Co-Founder Begins Trial On SquareUp iPhone Credit Card Payment Service [IPhone] Basic details about Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s plans for an iPhone credit card payment service have been floating around for some time, but it appears that his SquareUp startup has finally gone live for trial users—and it looks promising. There are several apps on the iPhone designed to accept credit card payments but, as far as I can tell, SquareUp has the best set of features. It doesn’t require any contracts or monthly fees, and card payments can be accepted through a small device that plugs into the audio jack
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