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This Guy Is Selling A Whole Mess Of Apple Prototypes On eBay
Steve Wozniak’s name may be on the shipping label for one of the devices, but it isn’t the Woz selling it or more than a dozen other Apple prototypes currently available on eBay. Seller Hap Plain just happened to pick up the Cinema Display with Woz’s name on the label while on the hunt for…
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The History Of Rain Jacket Tech, From Intestines To Gore-Tex
From seal intestines to woven grass, mankind’s been staying dry by any means available for thousands of years. And, with the rise of wonder materials like Gore-Tex, even drier for the last few decades. Now, a new technology promises to keep us the driest yet. Here’s a look back at how it all worked.
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The Bedpan Whisperer
How many bedpans is too many? 10? 50? Try 250. That’s about how many bedpans and items of bedpan memorabilia Eric Eakin has collected thus far. “I have bedpan greeting cards, bedpan poems, bedpan jewelry, and bedpan salt-and-pepper shakers,” he says. Eakin’s also got plenty of vintage and antique bedpans, each one clean enough to…
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The 9 Deadliest Minerals We’ve Ever Mined
Precious minerals make the modern world go ’round — they’re used in everything from circuit boards to tableware. They’re also some of the most toxic materials known to science, and excavating them has proved so dangerous over the years, some have been phased out of industrial production altogether.