I haven’t been to Japan myself, but by the looks of it they have a lot more fun playing games like Super Monkey Ball out there.
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You know what Batman sounds like. Same for Sponge Bob, Bugs Bunny, Bender, and a zillion other characters in cartoons, games and movies.
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Last time it was an intercepted call between our good old plods and the American’s feds, but this time calls inside the Metropolitan Police have been recorded and leaked by Teampoison. If that wasn’t bad enough the MI6’s anti-terror phone … Continue reading
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According to Wikipedia, at one time mankind used reels of thin flexible tape contained in plastic casings to store and share music. And that’s where the creators of the adorably tiny Mixtape Alpha 8-bit synth drew their design inspiration.
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A copy of a Microsoft roadmap has been leaked online, showing what’s in store for some key products, most notably, that an Internet Explorer 10 launch could be imminent.
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At this rate we’ll end up with every individual frame from the movie to gawp at before the film’s actually released, but Prometheus keeps on showing off stuff from the movie, and I’m not complaining.
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Learning to shoot video with a DSLR after years of using traditional video cameras can be an awkward transition. One feature yet absent from DLSRs is a controlled zoom mechanism
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It’s no secret that Google desperately wants Google+ to be the cornerstone of how you use the internet. The problem? No one’s taking the bait
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The universe’s most distant and ancient galaxies are about to be brought into focus. At the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, a multi-university team of researchers has just installed a very sophisticated infrared sensor in the Keck I telescope. The MOSFIRE … Continue reading
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Three simple booklets bring wit, wordplay and graphic design shenanigans to the printed page Boutique graphic design outfit User Design recently released a series of self-published works united by British wit and a simple, hand-drawn aesthetic. The titles include "The Journey of the Larks", "Punctuation...?" and "Life", and show an emerging playful side of the predominantly commercial publisher. Illustrated, designed and created by Thomas Bohm, the trio matches supremely minimal design with an endearing sense of play.
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That small surge of happiness and excitement you get when receiving a text message?
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A core tenet of the human “fight of flight” response begs the question, is this guy bigger than me? A recent study suggests that answer depends on if he’s wielding or not
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HTC’s come in for a bit of stick over the quality of the finish on its new One S Android, phone over the last few days, with some early buyers and reviewers finding the phone rather easy to chip and … Continue reading
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Would you lick an envelope made from used toilet paper? One Israeli firm hopes you will. Don’t gag, paper consumption is at an all-time high (damn Belgium, save some for later) and something must be done
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Sky’s just announced that you’ll be able to catch every single Bond film in glorious HD without ads in the run up to the release of Skyfall, which marks the first time the entire collection will be shown uninterrupted in … Continue reading
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The iPad promises to be a post-PC device to end your need for a desktop computer. But if you’re still attracted to tangible keyboards, there are a range of special cases which can prep your iPad for heavy-duty text editing. … Continue reading
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With all this talk about how the Olympics is going to kill the internet, and how all those tourists are going to clog up London’s arteries and make it an absolute nightmare for commuters, maybe sleeping at work is the … Continue reading
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With an 8-megapixel sensor, the iPhone’s camera has advanced quite far. But in the age of Instagram, where any yahoo with a smartphone can be a photographer, 1-Bit camera is reversing that effect. What does it do
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The Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich update
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We heard that Sky’s going to treat you to all of Bond’s previous exploits, but now we’ve got another taster of his upcoming new one, Skyfall.
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If you went back in time with all the knowledge you have now but none of the habits, what utensil would you invent to eat with? Is the fork, a tiny and instinctive spear, the ideal utensil? Or is the … Continue reading
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Aerial footage of Jamie Johnson cycling in the Peak District captured by HeliPOV, which uses a Droidworx ADX-4 Heavy Lift. (Want more?
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Mermeladaestudio's padded Nansa Indoor Swing. (Want more
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A wall full of horns, floor to ceiling skeletons, and rooms full of taxidermy! A rare glimpse at the natural history collections behind the scenes of the Horniman Museum in London. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )
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Art Light Installation by Luz with light in The Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid. (Want more?
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The Mosser, a small glass terrarium filled with a simple round moss ball. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )
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Somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on the Saigon River floats the most insane, makeshift boat I’ve ever seen. Seriously.
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The Lumia 900 is a hell of a phone. Plus, it should be pretty cheap once it lands in the UK. But it’s not for lack of quality parts: iSuppli crunched the numbers and determined it costs around £136 to … Continue reading
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The Tokyo Institute of Technology, largely considered Japan’s most prestigious university, has unveiled on its campus an impressive new building that is almost self-sustaining in its power use. The Environment and Energy Innovation Building in Meguro Ward features solar panels … Continue reading
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After we saw a sneak peak into one of Foxconn’s factories that revealed what we all already knew, working in one is no fun, now Marketplace has been in to see exactly how an iPad is made. Surprisingly there are … Continue reading

Rovio made one of the most popular games in the history and after cashing in on games, merchandise, theme parks, stickers and stuffed animals the company is now focusing on sweets. it has partnered with Fazer sweets and very soon will be churning out Tutti Frutti sweets in the form on pigs and colorful birds.

Give the Coca-Cola Hug Machine a hug and it will love you back, by giving you a free Coke.

This is as exciting as getting a tour of North Korea's nuclear facility or walkthrough of Area 51, and yes it does exist. Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is the second reporter in the world to gain access of Foxconn's top secret factory assembling iPads

Japanese design house Nendo, led by designer Oki Sato, will be debuting new design brand K% in Milan with an exhibition titled black&black. Above, the Gather pendant lamp.

Constellations is a hand-cut paper installation by Casey Watson. The viewer is invited inside the starry globe to see the stars turn into city lights

London based design firm, Superflux, pushes real world science to its limits. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )

Toccata, an interactive on-screen installation by Angelo Semeraro. When the visitor walks by, a textile reacts to movement, changing its form and giving the perception of modifying the equilibrium of the environment. (Want more

Bring your own device (BOYD) is spreading through industry like wildfire. Instead of being given a company device, people are opting to bring their own phones, tablets and computers. What if you could opt to do that for your flight, … Continue reading

When guns came along and became mankind’s primary weapon, axes were relegated to chopping firewood and other mundane tasks—ending the medieval golden age of axe design.

Somewhere in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on the Saigon River floats the most insane, makeshift boat I’ve ever seen. Seriously

The best thing about the Nike Fuelband is that it can keep track of any activity you do. Yes, any. You know what that means, right?

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Dyson engineers compete to see who can make the fastest toy car from a Dyson vacuum parts. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )

Chateau Bethlehem is a a 13th-century chateau in the Netherlands close to the Belgium border. It is surrounded by bucolic gardens and is also home to the Maastricht Hotel Management School.

Australian artist Matt McVeigh's Trolling shopping cart sculpture (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )

Miler Lagos' Book Igloo is amazing. A whole new alternative to book shelves? (Want more?

Smart of Argentina makes new ad with an ASCII animation in twitter. Using each tweet as an animation frame, you can scroll through the story

A Portland collector's antique imagery and artifacts add new depth to a Swedish workwear label's NYC shop The seemingly surprising collaboration between Portland's Ampersand Gallery and Swedish workwear company Dunderdon came about in a wholly organic fashion. Les Szabo, a long-time Portland resident and the owner of Dunderdon USA, walked into Ampersand one day and simply liked the way it looked

Thomas Schnur's Rubber Table will debut in Milan! (Want more?

The classic martini - gin & vermouth. (Still thirsty? See Liqurious )

The infamous French artist creates an invisible installation of his dripping logos at the newest W Hotel To celebrate the opening of their newest property, the W Paris Op

SymbiosisO: Voxel - Thermochromic interactive grids invade Issey Miyake's Tribeca location (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com )

It seems anything ship-related with a hint of Titanic about it is cursed, even in this modern age. A memorial cruise that set off from Southampton to recount the Titanic’s fateful journey was delayed by high winds, rough seas and … Continue reading

An old man in a nursing home was described as being depressed, unresponsive and “un-alive”…but wait until you see him “come to life” when he hears music from his era. After his caretaker puts the headphones on him and flips … Continue reading

Totally making up for the utterly annoying one and two dollar coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has created a series of limited edition glow-in-the-dark quarters featuring the likenesses of dinosaurs discovered in the country’s western provinces. The first in the … Continue reading

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Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube.

Are these geodes? Is that a view from inside Hef’s grotto? Kate Bush’s brainmap

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The Flashback trojan has infected more than half a million Macs (and counting!). But until now, detecting it and removing it hasn’t been dead simple. F-Secure, the same company that previously posted instructions for detecting and removing Flashback via the … Continue reading

Innovators: they walk among us, work near us, and sit in the seat across the aisle on airplanes. Though typical solutions to making a long flight go by faster include reading, watching movies, listening to music, or sleeping, pioneers like … Continue reading

Sports equipment maker Easton strapped hundreds of GoPro cameras to athletes and their gear for this awesome short film titled Inside Out. Sure, it’s really just a commercial for the company’s equipment, but it worked on us. The video gives … Continue reading

Intimacy and illusion in a range of contemporary photography seen at the show Representing 120 galleries from 16 countries, the spring Art Paris Art Fair offers a prime opportunity to observe the latest tendencies in the modern and contemporary art markets. This year we found particular attention paid to photography, unveiling the intriguing progress of the exploration of intimacy. The images that stood out to us traced a progression from a series of building facades taken in 2007 to today's more revelatory shots exposing the private lives of those that inhabit such spaces

The amazing petroglyphs at the Petroglyph National Monument (Want more? See Notventures and NOTCOT.com )

Itsykini is a customizable bikini kit, with four beautifully tailored triangles that tie together with a rainbow of interchangeable bows... (Want more?

Windows Phone 7 users in the UK can now enjoy some cool streaming facilities on their phones, thanks to the Netflix app making itself available in the kingdom. This service was earlier withheld owing to certain technical differences in Netflix's service delivery in the UK and the rest of the world.

When you know that the world's coming to an end and if your motive in life is to silence all nagging thoughts of going all out then here's where you can indulge.

The major data bug that disabled Nokia Lumia 900 users from accessing AT&T's network seemed to have let many down.

Swedish retailer Komplett.se went on to list the illustrious 4GB Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Graphics Card. Though details were kept minimal, we're looking at it to make a more global show in the near future. However there's nothing said about the card's sale in the rest of Europe and America....

A watch with e-paper is a real good bet.

Notes. They follow us all our life, guiding us, teaching us and becoming a significant part of our existence. That's why we need to simplify their arrangement with an appropriate filing system

Tracing the sport's past and present in a pair of complementary books Written, edited and designed by professional snowboarder, graphic designer and filmmaker David Benedek, the new two-volume book " Current State: Snowboarding " marks three years of hard work across 450 pages. Interviews with some of the sport's most prolific characters, such as Jake Burton , Terje Haakonsen , Shaun Palmer and Peter Line , are included alongside images from the past three decades

A modular storage system is reminiscent of the low-resolution aliens in the popular Space Invaders video game.

…The Dyson Car Challenge, of course. With a bit of time on their hands and a load of spare parts, the Dyson folk decided to hold a drag race.

Okay, enough of all the gadgets and gizmos that we regularly peddle in this here daily deal round-up – it’s all far too skewed in favour of the lonely individual who likes to lose themselves in a haze of technology.

That’s right, all that fancy “driver tracking” and live streaming of