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Liquid (no crystal) display

—srikanth @ September 28, 2012

One of the coolest looking contraptions I’ve seen in a while. What’s this device called?

Cracked by: vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, KK, Supritha Maiya, Prabhu and Rogi

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Eidophor, a very cool looking projection system that was invented in the late 1930s.


Bullet The Blue Sky (or blue box)

—srikanth @ September 27, 2012

Who investing in who?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Prabhu, Manish Achuth, KK, manas, Supritha Maiya, Rogi, kriskingle, mankuTimma and Aparna

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Bono and The Edge from U2 investing into DropBox


Goliath acting like David

—srikanth @ September 16, 2012

What “small” controversy centered around this campaign?

Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, manas, vinayaknp, Prabhu, KK, Dibyo and mankuTimma

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IBM’s “peace, love, linux” campaign ran afoul of San Francisco City officials, who took objection to Big Blue/Ogilvy and Mathers graffiting their precious streets. THey slapped a fine of $100,000 plus on this “guerilla” marketing campaign, which soon ended and went more mainstream.


Nerds got talent.

—srikanth @ September 13, 2012

What are all these all about?

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, mankuTimma and Manish Achuth

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Entries to Science Mag’s “Dance Your PhD” contest.


ROFL?

—srikanth @ September 8, 2012

This is not a boiledbeans bug. But what is it?

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Cracked by: vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, Prabhu, Ananth and mayank sharma

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The Billion Laughs XML - expands to a billion LOLs when parsed, effectively nuking any badly-written parser.


Yes but does it have instagram?

—srikanth @ September 4, 2012

Identify this gadget

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, soda buddi, KK, vinayaknp, Supritha Maiya, Harsha, mankuTimma and Ananth

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The Sectera Edge, or the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED) is, apparently, the US army’s very own smartphone designed for high security communication.


Da-See clearly

—devadutta @ August 31, 2012

This Da-Vinci illustration is said to be the first time X was conceived. What is X?

Cracked by: Rogi, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Manish Achuth, manas, Aparna, Vishnu Prashanth, Supritha Maiya, soda buddi, Prabhu, mankuTimma, Harsha and Ananth

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Contact Lenses!


These guys should sue everyone

—devadutta @ August 29, 2012

Identify

Cracked by: Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, mankuTimma, Jayaprakash B R, manas, Manish Achuth, Aparna, vinayaknp, Supritha Maiya, Vishnu Prashanth, Thirudgr8, varuns88, KK and Dibyo

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Simon by IBM, the first phone with a touch screen.


Can you see?

—devadutta @ August 25, 2012

Another great question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is special about these Rubik’s Cubes?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, vinayaknp, chetana, mankuTimma, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, manas, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, Ananth, Jinz, Rogi and Dibyo

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Designed specifically for visually impaired people


What legen -- wait for it --

—srikanth @ August 24, 2012

– dary award is he holding up?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Rogi, mankuTimma, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Supritha Maiya, duriel, Bipin Banavalikar and Harsha

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The Streamy Award for the amazing Dr Horrible’s sing-along blog