Electrolux’s Oven Hood Disguises Itself as a Lampshade [Kitchen]

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Willing to pay over $1,000 for an oven hood that doesn't stand out like a sore thumb? Electrolux's EFA50700 has been designed to look just like a lampshade (albeit, a shade for a motherfriggin' large light bulb), and still manages to extract air across three different levels. More

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What if Scissors-Company Fiskars Made Amplifiers? [Concepts]

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This is one beautiful amplifier—it's just a shame it's not real. Designer Edouard Urcadez "borrowed" the Fiskars branding to come up trumps with this "88" amplifier concept. There's no point dwelling on the purported specs of it when it doesn't exist beyond our computer screens, but hot damn I want it in my living room STAT

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Heathrow Terminal 5 Being Evacuated by Armed Police, According to Twitter [Airports]

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We hope it's nothing serious obviously, but according to Twitter something happened just past 8am EST today at London's Heathrow terminal five . Tweets are claiming armed police (picture here ) are evacuating the whole terminal. [ Twitter ] More

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Play-Doh Chevrolet Weighs Almost as Much as the Real Thing [Cars]

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At 1.5 tons, this life-size model of the Chevrolet Orlando weighs just 369lbs less than the real thing.

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Kickflip With a Recycled $200 Skateboard Deck iPhone Case [Iphone Cases]

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There are just five of Grove + MapleXO's skateboard deck iPhone 4 cases left, of the ultra-limited edition 50 piece range. Made over the course of a year, 300 skateboards were slices and sanded-down into layered strips, and constructed into cases. Pretty tricky craftsmanship, to say the least.

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Apple Wants to Properly Introduce You to the iPad 2—Using 14 Videos [Blip]

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If a review roundup hasn't sated your appetite for information about the iPad 2 , then perhaps Apple's Guided Tours can help. More

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Read It Later, An Instapaper For Android [Apps]

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Android devotees who've been coveting some of the iPhone's best apps for a while have been in for a treat these past few weeks—first Words With Friends came to the mix, and now Read It Later , an offline news caching reader, is finally available. Users can save documents through their browsers at work and read them offline on their phones. More

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An Ode to Notorious BIG, Gadget User [Rip]

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Fourteen years ago today, someone murdered Biggie Smalls . It's a sad anniversary, but it's a terrific occasion to look back on the incredible, incredible talent he was. And as we were sifting through our favorite MP3s, it hit us—the man was surrounded by electronics.

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Wild Codemonkeys Discover the A5 Processor Will Be in the iPhone 5 [Unconfirmed]

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Someone went digging through the iOS 4.3 code and discovered the same code for the A5 processor in references for both the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 . I don't think this was ever really a question, but if you need every bit of confirmation you can get, there's some more. [ Filippo Biga via Electronista ] More

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What If Lag Seeped Into Real Life? [Video]

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Nothing makes a video game experience quite so annoying as latency. But what if that lag seeped into your everyday life

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