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This article was written on February 15, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

Signs of Life is a website I recently stumbled across and it’s an ongoing community project where people can submit photos of signs that “transcend their objectivity to reveal our humanity.” In their “Frequently Asked Questions” section they explain that the signs can have a funny spelling, a grammatical error, another meaning, or it could simply be the existence of the sign itself that makes it worth submitting. After flipping through a few of the submitted photos, I thought several of them were worth sharing. Today’s Fun Friday is collection of photos I found from the Signs of Life site. I highly recommend going to their site to look through more of them if you have a spare minute, they’re all pretty funny.

–Explosives–

Found in Parks, Canada. Use Caution when hiking! (Note: In case you’re wondering, explosives are used to trigger avalanches in this area, hence the sign)

The sign reads: Danger: Explosives on the mountain. Unexploded Warheads or Avalauncher Projectiles may be found in the target area.  Unexploded Warheads or Projectiles may be distorted.  If you find a Warhead or Projectile do the following:

1. Do not touch or disturb.
2. Mark the location at a distance of 3-4 metres
3. Immediately report location to the Warden Service

–Good Dog!–

Found in North Vancouver

–Separation of Church and State–

Actual street signs found in Redlands, California

–Elderly Crossing–

This sign is actually found in the Cayman Islands. Here it’s Deer Crossing signs. There it’s Elderly Crossing signs!

–Those coconuts are dangerous!–

Found in none other than Hawaii!

–Only in Texas–

–A Hot Dog is There to Help!–

–Animals could eat you!–

Found at the Knoxville Zoo

–Trash does not belong in the toilet–

Visit the Iron Furnace in Illinois and this is what you’ll find.

–Danger!–

Not your typical warning sign.

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It looks as if we’ve located the proverbial “ugly stick”: behold the Snakebyte Premium Remote XL+ Wii controller. It’s not the first third-party Wiimote to have built-in MotionPlus, in fact, Nyko beat Nintendo’s own upcoming Wii Remote Plus to market with the Wand+. Still, the Sunflex’s Premium Remote XL+ has a certain lack of stylistic direction that may surpass even the drab gray Wand+ for the title of “ugliest Wiimote.” The Snakebyte, which includes USB-rechargeable batteries in addition to its traditional duties, is out now for $35, $5 under Nintendo’s pricetag.

Sunflex Snakebyte Premium Remote XL+ does integrated MotionPlus, third-party style originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Segway inventor Dean Kamen just stole the show at TEDMED 2010, with both a far-reaching lecture on how technology can save the developing world, and a peek at his latest projects. We’ll spare you the wave of guilt for now and get right to the cool stuff, like the latest rendition of his Luke prosthetic arm and Slingshot water machine. Dean admitted he’s having difficulty finding companies interested in manufacturing the former, but it’s looking snazzier than when it last grabbed Stephen Colbert, with components like this shoulder piece printed out of titanium in a custom 3D printer, and it’s slated to look like this. The Slingshot’s seeing even more action, as Dean and company have pulled it out of the ugly box into these svelte tubes, and finally has a distribution deal (with Coca-Cola, of all companies) to bring the clean-water-from-any-source machines to developing countries in trials early next year.

Last but not least, the man’s got a product you might be able to afford for your home. In the quest for an item for his FIRST young engineers to sell — a la Girl Scout cookies — he tapped LED manufacturer Cree to produce an 450 lumen light bulb that draws just 7 watts and will retail for about $25 door-to-door. In case you’re wondering, that’s cheaper and more efficient than most any lamp we’ve seen before. Dean says they’ve already produced several hundred thousand of the bulbs thanks to a surprise $3 million investment from Google, and plan to have them in the hands of every FIRST kid soon. Keep on fighting the good fight, Dean.

Dean Kamen unveils revamped bionic arm and water machine, LED light bulb powered by Cree originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I’m not sure if this costume is the coolest because of the way it works or the most annoying for the way the video was made, but this is definitely the most true-to-life iPhone 4 costume you’ll likely ever see.

John Savio, shown in the costume above, decided that he didn’t just want to wear a pair of cardboard panels with app icons on them for Halloween, he wanted to be a fully functional iPhone 4, so he picked up a 40-inch LED LCD display, mounted it in portrait mode inside the frame of his costume, and hooked up his own iPhone to the display using VGA out.

The result is an iPhone costume that actually shows you what’s on the screen of the iPhone in John’s hand, whether he’s about to snap a photo with the built-in camera, playing a video game, or surfing the Web. According to a post at CrunchGear, the costume gets 2 hours of battery life, weighs 75 lbs, and took 3 days to complete. You have to admit he’ll be the center of attention at Halloween parties this weekend.
 

Get your slashing finger ready! In iSlash, your job is to cut away chunks of the play field without accidentally swiping any of the bouncing stars.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas