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BMW’s Ugliest Concept Car Inspired Puma’s Ugliest Sneakers
Way back in 2008 BMW revealed an especially outlandish concept car called the GINA Light Visionary Model that traded metal body panels for a flexible lycra-like fabric wrapped around the vehicle. It wasn’t exactly pretty, which makes it harder to understand why Puma would use it as inspiration for a new shoe.
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Badminton-Playing Robot Will Destroy You On The Court
Table tennis-playing robots that can keep up with the likes of Forrest Gump are impressive, sure. But students and professors at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China took on a greater challenge when they built a badminton-playing robot that can quickly cover an entire court and return almost any shot.
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Journalists Are Backing Out Of The Olympics Over Zika
Athletes have already expressed concern about travelling to the heart of the Zika outbreak to compete in this summer’s Olympics. Now journalists are opting out entirely. Several NBC employees will not travel to Brazil to cover the games, including Today anchor Savannah Guthrie, who announced today that she’s pregnant.
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12-Year-Old’s Skateboarding Skills Defy Reason
Video: Riding three skateboards is hard. Riding a skateboard sideways on top of another skateboard is really hard. You might think this is building towards something but nope, I’m just pointing out that Isamu Yamamoto is a goddamn wizard on a skateboard. And he’s only 12 years old.