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Obscuria has wonderful text to go with their product line. Obscuria describes my favorite mask from their site: “After Lady Synthestruct polishes off her pint of nightly brandy from the steam powered liquor atomizer, she passes through the richly colored sitting room and makes way towards the hangar, where a patchwork hot air balloon awaits [...]
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Ani Niow, of One Letter Wonder, says she can’t fathom why she would get placed in the steampunk area at Maker Faire. I think I can fathom it. Victorian women, living in such a repressed society, used to get vapors where they would swoon and be out of it. Doctors could often treat the vapors [...]
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If you are going to build the perfect Frankenstein-style woman from cloned cells and spare parts, Biotech Hobbyist magazine recommends the Scientific Surplus site. I know you were wondering where the heck you were going to find a reasonably-priced incubator, given that the alternative is to keep your skin cultures on your body at all [...]
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Biotech Hobbyist magazine already offers online instructions for growing human skin, but now they are gearing up to help you figure out what to do with your vat of flesh. From the Biotech Hobbyist web site: “What to do? There are endless things to do with skin-do you want to make it glow in the [...]
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Anzen Senshi supposedly translates from Japanese to English as “Safety Warrior.” No idea if this is accurate, but I noticed these robot-themed condoms on Slashdong and I could not rest until I found where to buy them. Now that my primary prophylactic mission is accomplished, I may address my secondary goal of making sure as [...]
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Weightless Flight (also known as Parabolic Flight) is achieved aboard ZERO-G’s Boeing 727 aircraft named G-FORCE ONE. Weightlessness is achieved by flying G-FORCE ONE through a parabolic flight maneuver. Specially trained pilots fly these maneuvers between approximately 24,000 and 34,000 feet altitude. Each parabola takes 10 miles of airspace to perform and lasts approximately one [...]
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I have heard that you don’t count as rich until you own your own jet. Well real estate tycoon Robert Bigelow is raising the bar. He has committed five hundred million dollars towards attempting to make my dream of zero gee sex come true. Technically, the owner of the Budget Suites hotel chain has so [...]
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The modern waffle has its origins in the late middle ages. Waffle irons consisted of two metal plates connected by a hinge, each plate was connected to a wooden arm. Some plates had imprinted designs such as a coat-of-arms or landscape, while some had the now-familiar honeycomb/gridiron pattern. The iron was placed over a fire [...]
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Alienware‘s new leader is Austin’s favorite college dropout, Michael Dell. According to a press release on the Dell site yesterday, Dell has confirmed their intent to acquire Alienware, the computer gaming system company which brought us all the nifty Star Wars pimped out boxes. The plan is for Alienware to continue to operate as a [...]
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It is time to make resolutions for the new year. I have not decided on mine yet. Besides lose weight of course. But I’m thinking about resolving to make it to the next Robot Project at EXPO in Aichi, Japan. The Japanese are quite pervy by American standards, but I actually believe they will create [...]
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I seem to have spent much of this holiday season on the topic of constructed lovers. I’ve touched on dolls, robots, and androids, and the boxes Daleks travel in which are practically the same thing, and other mechanisms for sexual delight. There is something about making love to inanimate objects which seems very appropriate for [...]
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Four different incarnations of the Emperor Dalek are known, three seen on the television series, and one in the TV Century 21 comic strip (a squat, golden Dalek with an enormous head-section). The first seen on screen was an enormous immobile conical shell plugged into a corner of the control room in the Dalek City [...]
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