August 2011
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Idea #3: Grave Sponsors
Sell ad space on or near tombstones, especially those of well-liked people.
Advertisers: Your business or product will gain exposure from an audience that is usually difficult to reach - mourners. Grave site marketing is especially strategic for…
Therapists
Flower shops
Dating sites
Feel-good movies
Future Corpses: Choosing to rent out your headstone for marketers will help your family...
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The Bathe: A Customizable Bathtub →
William Taft probably could’ve used one of these.
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Bento Book →
Crystal River →
“The most beautiful river on earth.” (Photos.)
Enough Already →
Using the Video Experimenter Shield, the Arduino is able to decode the closed captioning transcription track, which is transmitted along with the NTSC picture signal. The incoming text is processed for a set of keywords such as “KARDASHIAN” or “SNOOKI” and sends my television’s IR remote control mute command, muting the TV for 30 seconds and then unmuting it (as long as a keyword isn’t...
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Idea #2
An unplugged television. Its power light indicates that it is off. Onscreen, a ‘mute’ graphic is visible. The screen is partially cracked.
It broadcasts a news station.
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Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have... →
In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA—including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code—found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here by asteroids, meteorites, or comets sometime in...