Posted with permission from Don Le, the photographer. Cosplayer: Megan Nguyen.

Thanks Don!

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Chun-Li and Friends are testing out the new Portal Gun…

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Oh my this is awesome. A few months ago, a group of high school students who dreamt about creating a viper flight simulator launched a kickstarter campaign in hope that they would amass enough money to build the thing… and they did! The now completed project was on display at Maker Faire last weekend, and I wish I could have been there to hop on board and fly around (virtually) for at least a few minutes.

[Via NA]

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A team lead by Dr Julian Allwood (pictured) explored practical applications that as lasers are used to attach ink to paper, they can also be used to remove it. They discovered that while a variety of wavelengths of light from ultraviolet to infrared worked, the most effective was a visible green light.

The technique worked by using the laser beam to apply the right level of heat for a mere four billionths of a second. It isn’t a case of the words dropping off the page: the heat vaporized the toner, with the resulting gas being captured in a filter. Allwood says the technique worked on a range of toners and does not damage the paper or leave it unable to “receive” toner in the future.

The new research follows a 2009 study by Allwood to see whether a variety of solvents could remove toner while leaving paper ready to be reused. That study concluded that it was technically possible but that it might only work on particular combinations of paper and toner type, that results could vary depending on ambient temperature, and that the most effective method would not be viable in office use because it involved chloroform.

According to the team, building a single prototype of a device using the laser technology would cost around £19,000 (approx US$30,000) but commercial production could reduce that to £16,000 ($25,000.) They believe that for larger companies, particularly those with busy offices, the devices could pay for themselves by cutting the amount of paper they needed to buy. It could also be an alternative to shredding or burning sensitive documents.

Management at Dunder Mifflin were unavailable for comment.

The work is detailed in Proceedings A, a publication of the Royal Society. That’s the same title that first published research including Crick and Watson’s description of DNA’s structure and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory.

Allwood previously made the headlines when he came up with a creative way of visualizing the amount of resources the human population consumes each year. He expressed the consumption in terms of the number of people-sized statues you could sculpt from each material, calculating that the average UK citizen consumes 12 “coal adults”, four “paper adults” and even an “aluminum baby.”

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Well, if you could clone yourself, imagine all the fun you could have. But until science catches up to science fiction, you wear this awesome T-shirt to let the world know that you support cloning. Go Science!

Available in many colors, sizes, and fits!

[Support Cloning: It could be awesome! - $14.95]

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Jeri Ellsworth, who currently works for Valve, helping them start their hardware R&D department, made this totally awesome Commodore 64 bass guitar/keytar for last weekend’s maker faire, and even though she seems to think the thing doesn’t sound all that great, I tend to disagree with her! Check it out! (Skip to 0:45)

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The Avengers is still hot at the Boxoffice, taking in nearly $5m this past weekend. It might not seem like much considering the landslide of cash it took in earlier in the month, but that is still twice what second place Battleship brought in.

The summer season is just beginning but some people are already looking forward to getting their grubby little hands on The Avengers on Blu-Ray.

Amazon.com has a placeholder for a Limited Edition Collector’s Set which is rumoured to be anywhere from a 6-10 disc set (unconfirmed)

While trying to confirm that rumor, I tripped across this image of what could be the Limited Edition box.

Before you wet yourself, I have to let you know right now that this is a concept piece by a self-proclaimed geek designer named Dave Delisle who likes to come up with awesome ideas and then post them on his blog for free. This is NOT official concept art for a Collector’s Edition BluRay Avengers set, and as the title suggests it is too awesome to be true.

But it should be.

I admire Dave’s efforts, and quietly despise him for showing off this incredible set piece that won’t exist. I would LOVE to display this on my mantle crammed with Avengers discs (and presumably room for the films that lead up to the ensemble action flick)

Great work Dave. I don’t think anything they DO release for a Collector’s Edition will be as nice as your concept!

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For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon offers up to 80% off on some of the most popular games from 2011, including titles from game studios such as EA, 2K, Sega, Square Enix, and much more!

[Game Downloads Mayhem: 12 Days of Dynamite Deals]

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I stood on the edge of my seat for the whole 3 minutes of the video, cheering for the little guy to keep on climbing that evil treadmill that only wants the slinky off its back!

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“Hulk Smashes the Kardashians Kardashiens” by Redditor Greenconverse11′s 10-year-old son.

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