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—srikanth @ July 20, 2015

Identify

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Apple’s Cyberdog suite was inspired by Peter Steiner’s famous internet dog New Yorker cartoon mocking the state of auth and privacy on the internet.

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Apple’s Cyberdog suite was inspired by Peter Steiner’s famous internet dog New Yorker cartoon mocking the state of auth and privacy on the internet.


Animals only?

—devadutta @ June 3, 2015

Connect to an “Ecosystem”

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Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Yarn and Zookeeper. Some of the Hadoop ecosystem components.


Is this the real life?

—devadutta @ May 28, 2015

Connect to a movie (which is awesome btw)

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Ex_Machina. When you run that code which appeared on screen in Ex_Machina, you will get an ISBN, which happens to be the ISBN of the book “Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds”


Are these called Hypervisors?

—devadutta @ May 27, 2015

What is happening here?

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VR Soccer


Did they have 52 of these?

—devadutta @ January 31, 2015

%gqh% Rogi asks - Simply name the lady

(Awesome question BTW, Rogi)

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Shirley Cards. Kodak’s (in)famous color cards


Before It Was Fashionable

—devadutta @ January 29, 2015

Guest question by %gqh% Rogi.

Name the pictured device that would probably be a hit if it were released, now instead of the 1980s?

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NES Knitting Machine Module. I want one!


"Engineering for boys"

—devadutta @ January 5, 2015

This is a patent for an educational toy that was created well before Lego and in existence even now. Identify.

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Happy New Year!

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Geekus Necturus Topus Classus

—devadutta @ December 17, 2014

Who da man? What did he invent?

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Alan Adler, inventor of Aeropress the bestest coffee maker on the planet.


#LikeAWaterfall { font-weight: bold; }

—devadutta @ October 10, 2014

20 years ago, this man proposed something simply wonderful. It is used extensively today. Who is he?

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HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, CTO of Opera who originally proposed CSS in 1994!


First T-Shirts, Now this?

—devadutta @ September 23, 2014

This is what happens when you let scientists do whatever they want. What is this?

Wait, did we say cats?  This little mutants are still adorable kittens. Credit | NPR

It is real, btw.

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Glow in the dark cats. http://www.bu.edu/synapse/2012/02/29/glow-in-the-dark-cats/