by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Art, Cool, Featured

Everybody loves colorful butterfly wings, and they’re just as beautiful and colorful up close. Photographer Linden Gledhill has a penchant for macrophotography, and one of her series focuses on a closer look at butterfly wings. They are beautiful, so is their slight resemblance to flower petals.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Gadgets

You may not know it, but your PlayStation 4 loves to suit up. Buy it a nice dress and make it happy. Balolo has come up with a precision cut wooden cover for the PlayStation.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Science & Tech, Videos
Forty year old Jo Milne suffers from Usher Syndrome and was deaf from birth. She recently got bilateral cochlea implants, which allowed her to hear for the first time. The video documents her reaction to the first time the implants were turned on.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Automobiles, Design

Lamborghini, it would be fair to assume, has zero interest in making a rat rod. Yet, as an independent design study, the Lamborghini Rat Rod looks magnificent. A concept by Pawel Wisniewski and Jans Slapins, the rendering imagines the appearance of a classic rat rod with modern influence of the Lamborghini design language.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Cool

Zombies fear Disney stars. They don’t just kill by sunshine and adorable looks, when it gets down to business, they are pretty scary hunters of the undead. Just look at them enjoying the kill in these illustrations by Kasami-Senei. Don’t be fooled by their appearances, they are absolutely heartless psychopathic killing machines, who seem to have found a way to vent on the zombies. We should be glad.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Cool

HBO’s crime drama True Detective has proved itself a success, and gained quite a following. Art inspired by Detective Rustin Spencer “Rust” Cohle and Detective Martin Eric “Marty” Hart, the protagonists of the show, was simply expected to follow. In this series, artist Todd Spence imagines True Detective characters as covers for Hardy Boys books. Yup, the detectives make quite a match to Hardy Boys, except all the ass.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Videos
This video from October last year shows an orchestra playing the Game of Thrones theme in a street in Spain. The orchestra is the Youth Orchestra from the Collegium Musicum La Rioja in Logroño, Spain.
by HarshPaul | Mar 31, 2014 | Cool

Germany based graphic designer Zhi-Yun Zhang imagines a “collaboration”, a mashup if you will, of famous pop culture icons represented by music stars, with cartoon characters. As the artist says, the attempt was to match the stars and characters in a way that both would have some similar qualities and be as close to their counterparts as a subject like this would allow.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 29, 2014 | Cool

Octopus Avengers are here to save the day. They are soft, they are cute, and they are the non-scary kind of octopedes. Available on Etsy.
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by HarshPaul | Mar 29, 2014 | Science & Tech
[Note: The video shows a part of the surgery. If you don’t have the stomach for it, do not watch beyond the 50 second mark.]
3D Printing is well on its way to changing the way we live. From making toys, art, food, cars, and medicine, the technology is making its impact felt in nearly every aspect of modern life. For a 22 year old Dutch woman, the technology has been especially helpful in helping her battle a medical condition.
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