Check Out This Creepy Han Solo Carbonite Case

Check Out This Creepy Han Solo Carbonite Case:

In the vast universe of Star Wars merchandise, there exists a sizable subgenre called Han Solo Carbonite. Another variation is Han Solo Encased in Carbonite. The point is there’s an endless line of both official and fan-made merch depicting dear old Han in his carbonite prison. In our opinion, it’s one of the worst pieces of movie memorabilia, an awful sculpture whose details have gone awry. But it’s hyper-popular in many places.

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Parasound Zphono USB Preamplifier Helps Turn Old Vinyl and More into Digital Tracks

Parasound Zphono USB Preamplifier Helps Turn Old Vinyl and More into Digital Tracks:

If you have a big collection of music on vinyl records, cassette tapes, or CDs that you want to get onto your digital audio player easily, but with great quality the Zphono USB is the product. This thing is a preamplifier that has been designed to connect to your PC via USB and allow for analog to digital music conversion. The device has an A-D converter and will work with Mac and PC computers.

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Sleep On the Moon With Moon Shaped Floor Pillow

Sleep On the Moon With Moon Shaped Floor Pillow:

Since pillows and mattresses are just boring, it falls upon designers to reinvent the medium, so to speak. Seen bellow is a full moon being slept on by a model. It’s not a camera trick or some artist’s fevered vision. It’s a collaborative project between Lili Suh and Chin Wei Loon. The latter is an astrophotographer and multiple frames of the moon surface that he photogrpahed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were used to piece together the giant pillow.

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13 Year Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence To Increase Solar Panel Efficiency By 50 Percent

13 Year Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence To Increase Solar Panel Efficiency By 50 Percent:

Aidan Dwyer is just 13 years of age, but has been able to use the Fibonacci Sequence to increase the efficiency of solar panels yielding 50 percent more with his new design than a standard flat solar panel.

Aidan had a eureka moment while hiking in the Catskills and was intrigued by the patterns tree branches produce. After a more in-depth look he discovered that the branches of the trees were created using the Fibonacci sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …**

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Chinese Geniuses Have An Idea For Deflecting Scary Apophis Asteroid

Chinese Geniuses Have An Idea For Deflecting Scary Apophis Asteroid:

What a team of physicists from Tsinghua University plan to do is launch a small solar-sail powered spacecraft to intercept the asteroid and smash it off course. The tiny details involving such a hair-raising operation are still vague, which is understandable. For starters, who’ll build the spaceship?

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Bloon Is The Simplest Semi-Orbital Craft Ever

Bloon Is The Simplest Semi-Orbital Craft Ever:

Or should it be suborbital? It’s basically a large helium balloon that goes up, up, up until the passengers feel they can touch the stars. The people who got the idea of the ground is a Barcelona based company called zero2infinity and they are now accepting reservations for a 2013-2015 schedule. The whole idea of this project called ‘bloon’ is to make pseudo-space flight a little more exciting adventure without the attendant hardware, i.e. Virgin Galactic.

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Tree Stump Speaker, Inspired By Nature

Tree Stump Speaker, Inspired By Nature:

This unique speaker design created by Thomas Laenner has been inspired by a tree stump and can either be wall mounted or comes in a table top version as well.

The wall mounted version of the stump speaker has been designed to appear as if it were a cut tree growing out the wall. With a small branch acting asa stand for your smartphone or music player.

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