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Achtung! Ecke! (von atelier v.)

Here’s a quick-and-easy “warning: low ceiling” sign… a playing card.  You can check out other everyday items for innovative solutions at atelier v. (in German, but you can click through the numbers to browse different ideas).

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Caution: Exploding Paint

For a bit of an amusing commercial, check out this one for Sony’s Bravia (a color LCD TV).  It’s hard to tell what the advertisement is for, but more importantly, it’s a pretty awesome display of color.  Exploding color.  Exploding paint.  All over buildings.

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Power Outage? Let’s Party!

Rotterdamm, NL is looking forward to welcoming a Sustainable Dance Club using rather novel Energy-generating Dance Floors.

“The club they envision will feature energy-generating dance floors (excellent way to extract kilowatts from energetic clubbers), toilets that flush with rain water, walls that change colour as a reaction to temperature changes, a rooftop garden and other elements that combine to create a sustainable clubbing environment.”

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(Exploded) Python vs. (Partially Digested) Alligator

Not quite Freddy vs Jason, but in the Everglades there’s a new battle for the position of “Top-of-the-Food-Chain”: Python vs. Alligator. In the latest round, a Python “won” against the alligator… although it ended up exploding while attempting to consume its victim. If the python survives next round, we may be doomed…

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Building a smarter foot…

Did your foot get bitten off by an alligator?  No? Looking a better prosthetic foot anyways? Check out this New York Times Interactive Feature that steps through how a $12,000 “intelligent” prosthetic foot works…

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Remember, Kids…

Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires!


Smokey Bear Website: the main site, educating kids about the dangers of campfires

The Smokey Bear Valut: looking at the history of Smokey the Bear as the spokesman for campfire safety.

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