Gearfuse

I always knew those countries were up to no good. I saw them looking at us funny.

It’s only a matter of  time (only a few eons away!!) that these continents will rejoin and conquer the globe in a few bites.

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When I was a wee lad sitting in school, I never had any time to pay attention to my teachings. I was too fascinated by the globe by my desk. I had feverishly wondered how they made the globe reflect the terrain accurately and I now know Google Earth had nothing to do with it.

The video above is straight out of “How It’s Made” and has solved my childhood bewilderment of the making of a globe. Now I can obsess over other things like sperm powered nanobots.

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These days, watches aren’t confusing enough. We’ve got the Caterpillar watch, which rotates around your wrist while displaying the appropriate time. Weird, but not confusing. Then there are watches which display time in binary. Dorky, but not confusing. I’m looking for a watch that is as confusing as it is expensive. The kind of watch I wouldn’t trade any sports car in the world for the confusion it brings upon me whenever I refer to it for time.

Enter the Hysek “Colosso” wrist watch. This convoluted mess of small parts and pieces features a three dimensional globe at the top which is used as a visual display which can be set on either local or GMT time.  For $550,000, you can either put your kids through college or get a watch. Your choice.

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Found at the Last HOPE Conference, this is actually a spinning sphere that looks like Earth. It uses POV to create an imaginary spinning world. There’s also another POV device that interlaces two colors with each other.

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We wouldn’t know first hand, but we are pretty sure that Muslims around the globe hate taking away from their PSP so they can go pray. I mean, let’s be honest, there are some points during a game where pausing is just impossible. The Raise is a service that plans to offer “Islamic content for the PSP”, allowing users to download the Koran onto the gaming handheld among other religious material.

The download will be available for free after May 19th, so just hold your praying horses until then. — Andrew Dobrow

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What’s the point of calling your Mommy if you live in the same house? There are two reasons, actually.

1. Laziness
2. It’s free and it’s Skype

On May 13th, which is Mother’s Day if you don’t remember (you ungrateful prick), Skype is offering free phone calls to Moms around the globe. Will yours be one of them? — Andrew Dobrow

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