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5 Awesome Carbon Fiber Gadgets, Accessories Geeks Would Love

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Scientifically speaking, to produce carbon fiber, carbon atoms are bonded together in crystals that are more or less aligned parallel to the long axis of the fiber as the crystal alignment gives the fiber high strength-to-volume ratio (making it extremely strong for its size). Several thousand carbon fibers are bundled together to form a tow, which may be used by itself or woven into a fabric. With that said, here are five awesome gadgets and accessories that are sure to please carbon fiber lovers. Click here to view the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for the ultimate viral video compilation of sons scaring their dads.

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Some Street Art Destroys Buildings, These 28 Examples Interact with Them

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Photo credit: Oak Oak

While we don’t recommend anyone go out and adding their own art to buildings, some artists actually make a living doing so, like Oak Oak. Not a trained artist, his work normally appears on the streets of his native St Etienne, France, or made on his travels. His favourite artist is Amedeo Modigliani and loves the feel / atmosphere of Saint-Etienne, as he notes it was an industrial city with many coal mines; now it’s in regeneration and still quite poor. Continue reading for more.

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This Might be Someone’s Worst Nightmare, But Divers Love Training at Nemo 33

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What you’re looking at above is Nemo 33, the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world, located in Brussels, Belgium. It has a maximum depth of 34.5-meters (113-feet) and contains 2,500,000 litres (660,000 gallons) of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30 °C (86 °F) and holds several simulated underwater caves at the 10-meters (33-feet) depth level. After the second platform, divers can plunge 108 feet down into a manmade abyss. Continue reading for two videos, more pictures and additional information.

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7 Ultra Sleek Computer Setups That Geeks Would Love

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Laptops and tablets may be the best solution for mobile warriors, but for a computer geek, nothing beats sitting down in front of a nice desktop workstation, and these 7 sleek setups are definitely no slouch. They range from wall-mounted PCs to crazy multi-display setups. Click here to view the first image in this week’s geek life gallery. Continue reading for a viral video showing how to make your very own Batman Batarang.

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Seiki SE50UY04 50-inch 4K UHD TV Gets a 56% Reduction to $699 Shipped, This Week Only

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Seiki’s SE50UY04 50-inch 4K UHD TV is currently being offered for only $699 shipped, this week only, originally priced at $1499.99. With over 8 million individual pixels (3840 x 2160) compared to about 2 million (1920 x 1080) on your current HDTV, the picture provides stunning clarity and colors that far surpass anything you’ve seen before. Put simply, you have to see it to believe it. Product page. Continue reading for a video unboxing and more information.

Notable features:

  • 4K2K Resolution 4 times 1080p.

  • Upscales HD to 4K.

  • One year replacement policy.

[via Amazon]

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Even Though Nobody Knows What It’ll Look Like, This May be the Best iPhone 6 Video Yet

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Another day, another iPhone 6 rumor, this time a video comes courtesy of YouTube user “Soldierknowbest”. The iPhone 6 will most likely sport a larger screen, from 4.7 inches to 5.5 inches, with the larger having a display resolution of 1704×960 – triple the ‘base’ resolution of 568×320. Software wise, the iPhone 6 will be released with iOS 8, and where iOS 7 featured a massive design overhaul, this version is expected to return us to “Apple’s usual modus operandi of gradual evolution,” says Extreme Tech. Continue reading for the video and more information.

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21 Funny First World British Problems That Might Surprise You

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Fond of a queue? A Prince Charles-like accent? Apologize for anything and everything? Then according to one sub-Reddit, you’re officially British. You’ll find gems from: “Once I was so alarmed when someone bumped into me that I panicked and squeaked ‘Thank you!’ by mistake,’ they remembered.” To things like: “A man at the supermarket was browsing the food I wanted to browse, so I had to pretend to look at things I didn’t even want until he left.” Continue reading for more.

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They Come in Short Bursts, But These Might Actually be from Aliens, Say Researchers

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A new series of mysterious signals, known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), has gotten the attention of astronomers worldwide, some of which are wondering if we’re picking up alien messages. They appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but hard to study as well. They’re perplexing because it’s not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst, leading some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages. Continue reading for two videos and more information.

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20 More Extremely Interesting (Yet Random) Photographs

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It’s that time again, time for another batch of extremely interesting, yet random, photos. First up, we see how a thunderstorm looks when viewed from space. Some camera manufacturers modify their products to be used as astrophotography cameras, such as Canon’s EOS 60Da, based on the EOS 60D but with a modified infrared filter and a low-noise sensor with heightened hydrogen-alpha sensitivity for improved capture of red hydrogen emission nebulae. With very low light capability, a few specific models of webcams are very popular to shoot the night sky for astronomers and astrophotographers. Continue reading to see them all.

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