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Longest Dinosaur Poop Goes Up For Aution, Any Takers?
We’ve seen loads of cool stories about weird and wonderful things going up for auction here at eTeknix, from the recent Aphex Twin album that Notch bought, the worlds first microchip, 30k BitCoins and even a fully working Apple I computer. They’re what I would personally class as the wonderful stuff, but…
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Meet Gary, the GoPro Wearing Goat
GoPro cameras have been strapped to all kinds of crazy things in recent years; gliders, rockets, skydivers, race car drivers, skateboards, guitars and more, but I think this is the first time I’ve seen one strapped to the back of a goat. The Goat duct-tape GoPro hybrid, or GoatPro for…
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Shooting Birds with Lasers? Don’t Worry, It’s to Save Their Lives
In what sounds like an epic game of Duck Hunt in real life, the skies of Hawaii are now protected by a grid of thirty focused green lasers. The laser grids are being mounted on the countries electricity poles in a bid to save birds from crashing into the cables.…
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Former NASA Technician Wants to Build 70ft Tall Car Juggling Robot
While we’re still a long way from having robots like those seen in the Transformers movie, partly because they’re actually aliens and also because something like that is just too advanced for us to create with modern technology, we can still have fun with other kinds of giant robots. Dan…
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“Hands-Free Automatic Sperm Extractor” So Much Nope [SFW]
Many of us these days are obsessed with how technology can improve our health, with things such as mobile apps to track our workouts, advances in scanning technology to monitor our well being and new medial aids to help doctors diagnose and cure a multitude of things. Some are cool…
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Domino’s Pizza Delivery, Now With Added Physics
Domino’s have been using some simple physics principles to ensure that your pizza doesn’t suffer any damage in transit. Using their Steady Pizza technology, the use a gyroscope mechanism to ensure that the pizza stays level, even when the delivery bike is going up a steep hill, over bumps, or…
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Batmobile May Be Expensive, So How About The Tumbler Golf Kart!
If you’ve ever wanted to own any one of the many editions of the Bat Mobile, then you’ll likely have never fulfilled that desire. Sure there are a few cool replicas out there, but they’re often still way out of most peoples price ranges. So what is a man to…
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Lego Fan Creates Awesome Pokémon Models
First of all, I’m amazed that the world of Pokémon and Lego haven’t already combined, one of the most popular toys of several generations and one of the biggest cartoon collectathons of another. Sure I grew out of Pokémon a very long time ago, but you’re never too old for…
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Man Breaks World Record By Building 50ft Optimus Prime From Balloons
While there are people in this world intent on breaking the record for the 100m sprint, highest sky dive, fastest time cycling across Europe and many other great achievements, John Reid was blowing up balloons. The New York based artist and magician wanted to break the world record for the…
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3D Printed Invention Solves The Dreaded Ketchup Water Problem
There are many people in this world who love Ketchup, but for those of us who do love it (myself included) there is one major drawback. That time when you forget to shake the bottle first, you tip the bottle upside down and all of a sudden you have watery, messy…
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Train Conductor Kicks The Stupid Out Of Selfie Taking Hipster
Taking a selfie is a fairly harmless affair, or at least it should be. Snapping an out of focus picture of ones self in the mirror and tagging it on Facebook with endless hashtags is pretty annoying, but generally a fairly safe thing to do. Of course there are a…
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Skoda Unveil vRS Mega Man-Pram, Features 20″ Alloy Wheels & Hydraulic Suspension
OK so this isn’t computer hardware news, something we know you love from us here at eTeknix, but every now and then a technology story comes along that we just can’t help but share with the world. Car manufacturer Skoda have unveiled their epic man-pram, a buggy that will make pushing…
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Bikini Girl Gets Tasered For Charity
In what has to be one of the strangest stunts I’ve seen in a while, a young woman in a bikini gets hit by a taser gun to raise money for a charity… no seriously. She raised money by selling tickets to allow a group of guys to watch her take…
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£3,25m Home Comes With Spaceship Simulator In Attic
Having a spare £3,250,000 ($5.3m) to spend on a house isn’t exactly something we all have, but for those that do, a certain house in South London has a little some extra to sweeten the deal. From the outside this is just your normal big, expensive house, it’s a…
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Kick Back And Enjoy A Chorus Of Floppy Drives Playing Tainted Love
We’ve seen plenty of these before, with various sets of hard drives, optical drives, floppy drives and more playing everything from the Star Wars theme to music from Tetris, but this latest one is by far one of our favourites so far. YouTuber Gigawipf has created his latest masterpiece, a…
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