Imagine sitting in a theater and watching the trailer for the upcoming 1984 film “Ghostbusters”. Now imagine it without the iconic theme song we all know and love. Instead, the accompanying music track is “Mind Heist” , which was actually…
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Cool Concept Cars
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Buick Streamliner by Norman E. Timbs – 1948 Ford Cougar Concept Car – 1962 Chevrolet XP-700 Corvette Concept Car- 1958 Cadillac Cyclone Concept Car- 1959 Chrysler Turboflite Concept Car – 1961 Sliding doors on this Chrysler concept from the 1960s.…
Houses And Kitchens Of The Future (1956)
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The illustration below was done by Fred McNabb in 1956. Some of what he envisioned includes: 3D Color TV Wall Panel Slide-back Roof Phono-vision Receiver House Control Panel Well, he was right on the money with these predictions. If only…
$1.2 Million Dollar Watch
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Couldn’t find that perfect gift while shopping Black Friday? Not sure what to get that special someone? Well, have a look at this unusual little trinket from Manufacture Royale. For more details go here. Read more [...]
Nikon Small World Photography Competition Winners
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The Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, is an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. Here are few of the winners. This photograph of a bird of paradise seed (Strelitzia reginae) at 10 times the normal size…
Stiller and Meara Talk “Jersey Shore” and Facebook
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Some of you may only know Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller as Ben Stiller’s parents. Or you may remember Jerry Stiller as George Costanza’s father on Seinfeld. A lot of us remember them as Stiller and Meara, the husband and…
New Green Lantern Rollarcoaster
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Six Flags Magic Mountain, in Los Angeles, has announced the addition of three rollarcoasters in 2011. They are aiming to reclaim the title of “Coaster Capital of the World”. Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, the park is introducing a new kiddie…
For The True Stephen King Fans: The Dark Tower
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One of the few Stephen King novels not to made into a movie or TV miniseries, this series of seven books was written by Stephen King over a period of 22 years. The plot involves a gunslinger named Roland Deshain…
Robot and Human Dance Routine
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At the recent Digital Content Expo in Tokyo, visitors were treated to an amazing performance : a robotic woman dancing and singing with her human counterparts to a choreographed pop routine. This is the HRP-4C, a bot made to resemble…
Sci-Fi Predictions that came true?
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Discovered a fun article over on Mashable that presents 11 technological discoveries whose origins may have come from some of the greatest sci-fi writers in history. The iPad, Virtual Reality games,and the atomic bomb: Arthur C. Clarke Tanks and automatic…