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There are the LED lightbulbs you know you should buy, and then there are the insane 10 for $10 sales that try to lure you back to the incandescent days. But between everlasting
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Millennium Falcon Mirror: You Looked in THAT Thing? You’re Braver Than I Thought
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhile they never came out and said it, I always imagined that Han Solo liked to look at himself in the mirror for hours every day. With all of that swagger, he had to be just a little self-absorbed. And what better mirror for him to check himself in but a Millennium Falcon?
This mirror based on the ship that did the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs was made by the guys from Funky Mirrors, and it is the perfect thing to round out any Star Wars themed room. It’s been lovingly hand-painted to replicate the details of the battle-worn spaceship, except for the part where the whole middle of the ship has been replaced with a mirror, of course.
The Millennium Falcon mirror measures 70cm (L) x 53cm (W) (~27.56″ x 20.87″) and is selling for $191 (USD) over on Etsy. I think if I had one of these, I’d rig it to display an image of Chewbacca every time you walked up to it.
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Peter Mowry with the Marquis, a 56-inch Lego rendition of a spaceship in the novel he's working on.
(Credit: Caylin Feiring)
Apart from the massive collaborative re-creation of “The Wizard of Oz,” the recent Lego festival at Brickworld 2013 Chicago had plenty to gawk at.
Not least was an incredible Lego spaceship designed and built by Peter Mowry (aka Abathar). It’s called The Marquis.
Tipping the scales at about 50 pounds with roughly 16,500 bricks and standing 56 inches tall, the arc-shaped vessel took eight months to build. It has an elaborate original backstory with highly detailed, inspired illustrations.
It’s part of a fictional Hexan colonial fleet that features in a novel Mowry and friends are working on. As he describes them, the ships are truly enormous:
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Jun 23
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.
This week’s been arguably less hectic than the last, but both Samsung and Facebook decided to up the tempo on Thursday. The Korean hardware maker announced a stack of new hardware, from tablets to cameras to desktop PCs, while Facebook’s Instagram went toe to toe with Twitter’s Vine, announcing a new video-sharing feature. On the very same day, Tesla had something to show, deftly switching batteries on its Model S faster than you’d be able to fill a gas tank. There were, however, six other days to the week, and we’ve pored over all of them for this week’s numeros.
Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, Transportation, Samsung
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It’s kind of hard to scope things out on Venus because the surface probes we send get obliterated pretty quickly by the heat. Pictures of Venus’ surface do exist, though, and this one shows "large circular domes" that look pretty darn hot. The domes are thought to be magma erupting through vents, in a process that happens on Earth too, called volcanism. Get it? Volcanoes? Get it? Okay. Moving on.
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Google Mine is a service that is reportedly being tested internally right now. The service will apparently be used to catalog items that users own or would like to own, they will also be able to update the status of items that they own.
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