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design
Wait Wait, Music Boxes Can Be Awesome Starships?!

Spinning ballerinas? Please. But give me a music box that's actually a bitchin' starship and maybe I'll change my tune. Enter the MusicMachine, the music box all music boxes should aspire to be. Read More >>

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samsung
At Least Five New Samsung Galaxy Models Coming in 2013?

A Samsung roadmap for the first half of 2013 has been spotted, showing us at least five new models from its forthcoming Android range. Some we know, some we don't. Read More >>

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toys
This Awesome Model Helicarrier From The Avengers Actually Flies

We saw the flying delorean back in March, but now Russian model maker extraordinaire, Native118, is back with a vengeance with a scale model of the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier from superhero team up blockbuster the Avengers. Read More >>

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apple
Toys Playing with Toy-Size Apple Gadgets Will Make You Either Sneer or Coo

Toys playing with their own overly-engineered, brand-name, Apple gadgets is what could probably be called—quite accurately—the pinnacle of pretension. Still, anything made miniature is automatically cool. And these tiny iPods, iPads, iPhones, and MacBooks are no exception. Not even when Woody from Toy Story is posed with a doll-size iPhone to look like he's Instagramming his sushi dinner. Read More >>

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lego
Insanely Detailed Lego Land Rover Even Includes Working Disc Brakes

If you needed yet another reminder that you're far from being a Lego master builder, check out 'Sheepo's' mind-blowingly awesome 1:8.4-scale Land Rover Defender 110 built from over 2,800 pieces. It could probably endure an off-road adventure better than your compact car. Read More >>

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All Models This Photoshopped Should Come With a Toolbar

H&M has apologised for ads that critics say depict an unrealistically tan and skinny model. Sure Isabeli Fontana looks emaciated and fried, but she's Brazilian, so that makes sense right? Bullshit. This person could never exist. A Hamburg street artist shows us how Photoshop has destroyed our ideal of beauty with the cleverest adbust we've seen in years. [Newser and Imnotbogusky via Buzzfeed] Read More >>

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fashion
These Girls Are Wearing Nothing But Light

Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Batman logos! Fancy effects! And even... dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his beautiful models to make them look even more gorgeous. Read More >>

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toys
Forget Magnets, This Working 1:48-Scale Wooden Roller Coaster Is the Ultimate Desk Toy

Before high-tech engineering upped the ante on amusement park rides, coaster enthusiasts got their thrills riding wooden behemoths that felt like they were going to shake themselves apart. And now you can enjoy those same thrills from the comfort of your office chair. Read More >>

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phones
RIM Ditching the Cheap Kiddy Phones (Updated: Other RIM Man Says It Isn’t)

Whether RIM's latest move is fuelled by the company's huge drop in income or the non-stop battering it received for apparently helping set London on fire last summer, or both, we'll never know. The facts are RIM's ditching the cheap kiddy models to focus on the high-end power users that don't set rubbish bins on fire out of boredom. Read More >>

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transport
Take a Ride On This Model Railroad Version Of an Old Disneyland Attraction

A model railroad enthusiast—and obvious Disneyland fan—known as STNautilus has recreated the park's now long gone Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland ride as an On30 scale miniature version. Read More >>

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movies
I’d Live in This Incredibly-Detailed Hogwarts Castle Model

The films might be complete, but Warner Brothers will continue to milk the Harry Potter franchise for all it's worth. Starting March 31st a new studio tour will give fans a behind-the-scenes peek at the movies, including this stunning model of Hogwarts. Read More >>

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The World’s Largest Model Railroad Adds the World’s Largest Model Airport

With expansions planned all the way to 2020, the world's largest model railroad just opened its latest addition: a 1,600-square-foot model airport, chock full of tiny aircraft support vehicles, hangers, terminals, and passengers. Read More >>

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Steam-Powered RC Trike: The Apex of Mechanical Eye Candy

It's slow, it's pink, and it's piloted by an innocent looking stuffed animal wearing goggles. But that doesn't make YouTube user prallplatte's remote control trike any less badass. Better still: the trike is actually powered by steam, courtesy of a large boiler running down its spine. That's crazy. Read More >>

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star wars
4WD Imperial Crawler Hack Makes the AT-AT Even More "Off-Roadier"

Called the Imperial Crawler by designer Christopher Aleria, this interesting take on the AT-AT would have surely been immune to Luke's harpoon technique. Read More >>