Boiledbeans

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2012

Monday, May 14, 2012

Look closer.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Slightly obscure question. What are these tiny devices called? They were created more as an amusement than a scientific instrument. The bottom part of (2) is a good clue.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, rickde, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Bharath, Rogi and Amarendra Kumar

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Stanhopes, introduced to the world as ‘microscopic photo jewelry’. These tiny lenses could be attached to microphotos to view them without the need of a microscope.


DFA?

—devadutta @ 13:24

Awesome question from %gqh% Manish Achuth. Thanks saar!

Who/What draws these things?

Cracked by: Rogi, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sujoy, Vishnu Prashanth, raklodramA, badideabear, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth and Sumanth Patlolla

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Answer, straight from Manish - Automatons, similar to the ones described in Hugo by Scorsese.


Saturday, May 12, 2012

Where's Djibouti?

—srikanth @ 10:28

Identify the organization:

Cracked by: Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Dibyo, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla and Amarendra Kumar

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Friday, May 11, 2012

You do this

—devadutta @ 01:12

Which website started out like this?

Cracked by: Ananth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, badideabear, rickde, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Sujoy and Bipin Banavalikar

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Youtube


Thursday, May 10, 2012

This just in:

—srikanth @ 19:39

Identify the service that this guy started:

Cracked by: Shwetha Maiya, badideabear, Ananth, Manish Achuth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, rickde, Bharath, swapnil.m, Sujoy, Dibyo and raklodramA

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Justin.tv. Justin Kan, pictured, started the online video broadcast service. It initially consisted of just one channel - him. He used the camera/mic to broadcast his entire life live via his website.


Wednesday, May 9, 2012

#WIN

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who is she and what did she do recently?

Cracked by: Bharath, KK, badideabear, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar and bhargava

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Claire Lomas recently won the london marathon wearing a bionic suit - making her the first ever person to do so.


Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Retracting last night's question

—srikanth @ 20:20

Sorry folks. Looks like last nights question was a blatant repeat, so we’ve gotten rid of it. I’ll be posting another one soon.


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Poke

—devadutta @ 11:14

This is supposedly Abe Lincoln’s failed attempt at patenting something. What?

Cracked by: badideabear, rickde, Rogi, Sujoy, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, vinayaknp, KK, Ananth, Vishnu Prashanth, Bipin Banavalikar and Sumanth Patlolla

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Facebook style social networks!


Monday, May 7, 2012

Huff and puff this!

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is special about these bottles?

Cracked by: badideabear, rickde, Rogi, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sujoy, Ananth, Vishnu Prashanth, Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

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Heineken Wobo, which doubles as a brick to address housing and recycling crisis in the Caribbean.


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Waiting to get one

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: Anjul, rickde, Sujoy, Bharath, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, KK, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

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Visualization of data collected on Google Cars.