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The Mayor of London has announced nearly £1 billion of spending intended to overhaul London’s cycle routes. The plan includes the creation of a 15-mile (24-km) “Crossrail for the bike,” substantially segregated from road traffic, connecting the suburbs of East and West London.

As well as fully-segregated routes, the plan will see the £913 million (US$1.36 billion) plan will create semi-segregated cycle paths along certain streets, signposted “Quietways” along … Read More → "Mayor of London unveils £1 billion cycling masterplan"

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A 3D-printed implant was used to replace 75 percent of a man’s skull in a surgical procedure earlier this week. The prosthetic was constructed using an additive printing process, and was implanted following manufacturer Oxford Performance Materials receiving FDA approval to use the technology last month. News.com.au reports that the company can create similar implants in two weeks after receiving 3D scans of a patient’s injured area. … Read More → "3D-printed implant used to replace 75 percent of man’s skull"

According to this 1959 US Embassy document, it costs Rs.500 for a Yeti search expedition permit. You are allowed to photograph or capture a Yeti, but you are not allowed to kill one or shoot it “except in an emergency arising out of self-defense.”

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Meet the AirBurr, an autonomous flying robot specifically designed for missions in difficult, confined environments under total darkness. Airburr is inspired b the simple navigation strategy that insects use to follow – It follows a path and if it collides, it has an excellent ability to recover.
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You’re looking at the first fully articulated 3D-printed dress. Printed off at Shapeways, the piece was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni specifically for burlesque star Dita Von Teese. In the future, this is the kind of clothing you might be able to get from a department store.

Sprinkled with 13,0000 Swarovski crystals, the dress is made from from 17 different pieces and 3000 joints, so it moves like a regular old dress. … Read More → "Dita Von Teese flaunts the first 3D-printed dress you might actually own someday"

iStrategyLabs is a digital firm that develops tools and services that foster community, online and off, for big organizations — putting out social-media marketing for GE during the 2012 Olympics, a social media-savvy concert for American Eagle, and a paintball sentry drone that fires when you tweet at it.
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Your video game console is great for playing games, but you might not realize it’s also one of the best media centers around. Here’s how to set up all of the modern consoles so you can stream videos and music to them right from your computer.

The PS3 and the Xbox 360 both have media center capabilities built right in, so they’re easy to set up. The Wii (and Wii U) … Read More → "The complete guide to turning your video game console into a living room media center"

Phones are so ubiquitous that we screen our calls, hang up on telemarketers, and send stupid pictures to friends and family with our mobiles. Google Glass is on its way, for better or for worse, and it’s just getting harder to imagine how we used to call households, not individuals. Crazier still, we used to have to dial the operator first to get connected to other lines — back in the days when the … Read More → "Today in geek history: Alexander Graham Bell acquires patent for the telephone"