Some people are very particular about how their coffee is made. While there are those who prefer to use a French press, some want to use a percolator, and others don’t care how they get it, so long as they get it. While some may not see the art to this tasty and varied brown beverage, others enjoy it to the point that they’re willing to splurge on items that will brew them the perfect cup.
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Candles are wonderful at setting a mood for a party or event. However, they’re kind of a pain to keep buying. If you had three of the same color, and one is used up before the others, then you’re going to have a hard time finding the exact same shade again to complete the set. Not to mention you’ll have to deal with wax drippings and the ends of candles that no longer have a wick.
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To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub. For in that sleep of death, what noise may come to wake us, but through the fury of electronics attached and speakers blaring? But wait, what light from yonder curtain falls? Could it be an playlist calling to mine eyes?
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Apparently there are over 300 million people in the world today who suffer from some form of color blindness (or ‘color vision deficiency’ as the professionals call it). The problem can range from a mild form which confuses specific colors to a full blown version which can be severely debilitating. Now a new innovation from an American company could help these people see what the rest of us see.
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When you’re out jogging, hiking, or biking, there’s a good chance you’re going to want to listen to some music. Not that any of those activities aren’t fun, but it’s easier to do a longer workout when you’re not as focused on the physical strain you’re experiencing. The only bad thing that comes with having earbuds in is that you aren’t as aware of your surroundings.
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If you like to build and make things of all shapes and sizes, you’ve likely come across a situation that called for soldering. For those of you out there that have never done it before, this seems like a daunting task. They make is look all too easy in how-to videos, but where do you find your equipment, and what are the ins and outs of it all?
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Kids best learn through hands-on experience, so it’s hard to help them understand how different things are in space. Gravity doesn’t apply in the vacuum of space, and on different planets, you may weigh two times your amount, or only one sixth of it! While you can’t ship your kids off to the moon, you can teach them what it would be like through another medium.
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Nature and computer technology don’t often mix, but when they do the results can either be great or a real disaster. A mobile phone made of hay is one idea we’re not totally sure about, but on the other hand we’d love to see this wooden electric car built and sold at dealerships.
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Go on, admit it. Secretly you’ve always wanted to have a cool job as a rocket scientist, if only to impress people at parties. Of course such jobs are relatively difficult to get, especially if you lack some of the basic skills, like an IQ of 845 and a fondness for advanced nuclear physiotranstritration. But fear not, intrepid adventurers, for help is at hand.
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We’ve seen some converters that take a cassette and change it to a digital medium in the past. However, it stores the information on your computer, and then you have to put it onto your device to listen to it. If you are an iPod or iPhone user, then you will be pleased to know that you will be able to skip over that last step entirely.
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Seeing as Halloween is coming up, we all want to do something over the top. Some of us will get pre-made costumes at one of those Halloween stores that are only open in the fall. However, when you really want to wow a crowd, it’s going to take a little more creativity to make a costume larger than life.
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We all enjoy Doctor Who to some extent. Whether you started watching a few decades ago, or with the ninth Doctor, it holds a special place in your heart. While we all wish we could run off to fight cybermen and daleks, we still have work to do in the here and now. That doesn’t mean we can’t pretend we’re on adventures of our own though.
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There are times when only a flat thin piece of dough with multiple awesomely delicious toppings will do. Know what we mean? It’s a silly infatuation, but it’s almost universal in one way or another. From the ancient Romans with basic flat bread and olives, to modern day monstrosities such as the Modified Hawaiian with stuffed crust and trimmings.
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There’s always too much to do and too little time to do it in, which is why we tend to forget stuff. Most of the time we get away with it, until those times when we forget something Really Important ™, like the mother-in-laws visit or the appointment with the parole officer. That’s when you’re going to wish you had some nuclear strength tool close by to help you remember stuff when it counts.
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It can be hard sometimes to remember what life as a human is really like, what with all the doom, gloom, crazy and so forth that we face on a day to day basis. But then, just when you think it’s all but done, you stumble across a small place off the beaten track which restores your faith in our ability to survive despite the odds.
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