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Uprades!

(I know it’s not an Acorn Atom) Retro Computing [SA_Steve's flickr via Digg]

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Is that an Acorn Atom or are you just pleased to see me?

Pitched as “a revolutionary new way of eating chocolate,” Le Whif will come in four chocolate flavors: mint, raspberry, mango and plain. It is the invention of Harvard Professor David Edwards : “Over the centuries we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals. It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we’ve helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing.” Right you are, doc. The graphic novel is here . The Launch: Inhaled Chocolate [Le Whif via Cool Hunting ]

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Le Whif, a chocolate inhaler

Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. [Tip: Shannon ]

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Ancient flatbed scanjet plays Imperial March

If you’re wondering, a hyoutan is a sort of cucumber. [Geekstuff4u]

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Hyoutan speakers

This man has configured his CNC router to play “Still Alive”, from Portal . Hacksay says he “didn’t just tell the motors to spin at the correct speeds directly though. he computer the 3d vectors necessary to produce the notes.” I have no idea what that means, since the machine doesn’t appear to be carving anything out, but just spinning its motors. Still, impressive. Who knew CNC machines had polyphony?

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Video: CNC machine plays "Still Alive"

Eliot Van Buskirk took a trip to Georgia Tech for the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, where tinkerers build new sound-making contraptions. Eliot (who was also a judge) has a gallery over at Wired . Presented By: Inside Guantanamo: Sunday at 9P e/p Guantanamo Bay is one of the world’s controversial prisons. This may be its final chapter. With unprecedented access, National Geographic has the story you haven’t heard. Both sides, told from the inside, before its doors close forever. Click to learn more and go Inside Guantanamo > > natgeotv.com/guantanamo ? Ads by Pheedo

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Guthman Musical Instrument (Invention) Competition

Pete Verrando has built these prototype CD turntables. I don’t know if they actually work, but he’s patented it, so don’t get any funny ideas. I wonder how difficult it would be to actually make this work, since the reading laser normally moves in a straight radius from center to edge, but a turntable would have an arc. (Probably a simple formula, but one that is not hard-wired into a regular laser assembly.)

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Pete Verrando’s CD Turntables

BusinessWeek : In the case of Time Warner Cable, customers will be charged from $29.95 to $54.90 a month, based on data consumption and desired connection speed. Customers will be charged $1 for each gigabyte (GB) over their plan’s cap. Time Warner Cable offers four cap levels of 5, 10, 20, and 40 GB. A download of a high-definition movie typically eats up about 8 GB. A recent report from Sanford C. Bernstein suggests that a family on the 40 GB plan that streams 7.25 hours of online video a week (a fraction of the 60 hours Americans spend watching TV in a week) could end up spending $200 per month on broadband usage fees. And that’s just for video viewing, before factoring in such Internet activities as music downloads and photo sharing. “To put it mildly,” says Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett, “the decision to limit data consumption can be expected to have profound implications for [consumer] behavior.” Photo: Traffik

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It Has Begun: Time Warner Cable to put bandwidth cap on home internet (40GB!)

Matt Nolan makes lots of interesting cymbals, including ones that are shaped like giant hands . Music Radar interviewed him inside the clattering percussion hall at Musikmesse ‘09.

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Video: Matt Nolan, outlaw cymbal crafter