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September 16, 2011
No more spritzing, spraying or dabbing, now you can start you day with confidence knowing that all you need to do is swallow a simple digestible perfume capsule to smell great all day. The Swallowable Perfume, created by renowned Australian artist Lucy McRae, in conjunction with Harvard University biologist Sheref Mansy.
“Once absorbed, the capsule enables the skin to become a platform, an atomizer, a biologically enhanced second skin synthesized directly from the natural processes of the body,” explains the artist’s website. “Fragrance molecules are excreted through the skin’s surface during perspiration, leaving tiny golden droplets on the skin that emanate a unique odor.”
The strength of the scent is determined by varying factors including an individual’s ability to acclimatization to temperatures, reactions to stress, exercise, and sexual arousal.
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luapo |
September 15, 2011
It sounds like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe tale of horror. A man becomes agitated by strange sounds only to find that they are emanating from inside his own body—his heart, his pulse, the very movement of his eyes in their sockets. Yet superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is a very real affliction caused by a small hole in the bone covering part of the inner ear.
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luapo |
September 15, 2011
Modern technology has made it incredibly easy to emulate the sound of a rock band. Plug the right guitar into the right amplifier and you’re already on your way to sounding like Kurt Cobain. In fact, you don’t even need the amplifier.
Just plug the guitar into a computer and choose the “Kurt Cobain” setting on your favourite music software. Almost every sound in rock and pop history that’s caused your ears to prick up, or your eyebrows to raise, has been sampled or digitally reconstructed for our music-making convenience.
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luapo |
September 14, 2011
Oh, Winter. We really wish you’d go away, but you come back every year. Snowing on us. Wintry mixing on us. So we’re out in the cold, scraping the ice off our cars and of course, our phone rings. Then the following sequence of events happens:
1. Stare at phone.
2. Swipe at screen with gloved hand, out of reflex.
3. Say words Mother doesn’t appreciate.
4. Attempt to hold phone with one hand while removing glove from opposite hand with teeth.
5. Repeat step 3 when the call goes to voicemail because you took too long.
Don’t let your gloves keep you away from your smartphone! Digits are mini conductive pins that convert the gloves you already own and love into smartphone-compatible gloves. They’re made of conductive silicone with a metal pin on the back for attaching to your glove. They’re super easy to install and each set comes with four pins so you can either have four fingers on one set of gloves, or two fingers each on two pairs of gloves.
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luapo |
September 14, 2011
This tool calculates the approximate value of a guest’s stay, based on the rent of the house and the length of the stay. Just fill in the form on the left and hit ‘Calculate’ to learn about the cost of couch-surfing!
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