.: The Bong Mask

Topic science & new tech (By Cif!, Sunday 31 October 2010 @20:47) Contribution by Tobozo

«Greetings “medicinal” marijuana “patients.” Have you been looking for a better way of ingesting every last puff of “medicine” that escapes your bong? The Bong Mask straps across your face and surrounds your respiratory system with sweet, sweet pain relief.»

Source: gearfuse.com

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.: The BoomCase by Mr. Simo

Topic music (By Cif!, Tuesday 26 October 2010 @13:17)

«Mr SiMo’s Boomcase Project recycles suitcases by making them into very portable very cool speakers. Each one is bespoke and works with iPods, iPhones and any device with a headphone jack yadda yadda yadda. The exciting bit is that the cases have chargers built-in and last for over seven hours»

Source: theboomcase.com, Vintage Suticase BoomBoxes

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.: L’emballage qui tue

Topic conspiracy (By Cif!, Monday 25 October 2010 @22:50)

«À l’heure où les produits “longue conservation” sont de plus en plus prisés, les clients ne soupçonnent pas l’existence de substances dangereuses dans les emballages hermétiques et dans les aliments avec lesquels ils sont en contact. C’est le cas du Bisphénol A, que l’on trouve dans les contenants en plastique rigide et qui peut provoquer des maladies cardiaques ou affaiblir le système immunitaire. Même risque avec les phtalates utilisés pour plastifier les matériaux servant au conditionnement. Agissant comme des hormones, ils peuvent entraîner la stérilité chez les hommes..»

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Hauptsache Haltbar (Youtube)
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.: The century of self

Topic conspiracy (By Cif!, Sunday 24 October 2010 @18:37) Contribution by Eion

«Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar..»

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.: The planet

Topic The End of the World (By Cif!, Sunday 24 October 2010 @18:00)

«The Planet is a unique collaboration between a film-production company, a science portal and Swedish public-service television. Our aim is to enhance public awareness about the planet and our future; to show the limits, threats, and possibilities we are facing today. During the campaign global change issues headlined the news, and was a subject much discussed among Swedes.»

Source: svt.se

(Video) “The planet”: part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

(Video) “Planète sous pression”: part 1: Le grand tournant | part 2: Chacun pour soi | part 3: Dans notre bulle | part 4: Réagir

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.: McDonald’s Happy Meal shows no sign of decomposing after 6 months

Topic vrak (By Cif!, Tuesday 19 October 2010 @17:55) Contribution by Stephane.V

«Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald’s Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old.

Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mould or decay.

In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestructible fast food meals progress as it refuses to yield to the forces of nature..»

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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.: Old to New: Typewriters

Topic Geek stuff (By Cif!, Wednesday 13 October 2010 @22:48)

«Last week I stumbled upon the USB Typewriter etsy shop and my jaw dropped! Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase typewriters or you can buy a kit and do it yourself

Source: frecklednest.blogspot.com

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.: The mobile wind turbine concept

Topic science & new tech (By Cif!, Wednesday 13 October 2010 @21:34) Contribution by aXs

«A network of designers coming together under the banner of Pope Designs has come up with a mobile wind turbine concept that could just change all that. Able to generate and store enough power to meet its own needs, the turbine could also be erected anywhere the wind blows to provide a source of clean energy to those who need it.»

Source: gizmag.com

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