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World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy
My daughter earned this spinning top for selling wrapping paper in a school fundraiser. It plays the theme from Beverly Hills Cop and draws a laser circle on the floor. Thirty years ago the technology in this toy would have cost $100,000.... More.
Y2K ten years later
Farhad Manjoo writes in to tell us about his Slate series looking back on Y2K, ten years later, "In the first part, which is up now, I look into how Y2K changed the tech industry, and whether it was all a waste. In the second I look at the unacknowledged success of Y2K--it was one of the only times... More.
Mark Dery on 2012 bunkum
2012 angst got you down? Hankering for another harmonic convergence? Former BB guestblogger Mark Dery has got just the medicine for you. Over at h+ Magazine, he shreds the 2012 "carnival of bunkum" spread by folks who are banking (literally) on people believing that some sort of spiritual singular... More.
iPhone-operated car
The Spirit of Berlin is an iPhone-operated Dodge minivan. Researchers from the Freie Universität Berlin's Artificial Intelligence Group hacked the van to be semi-autonomous for DARPA's 2007 Urban Grand Challenge. Now Appirion UG, a mobile app development firm spun out of the AI Group, built an iP... More.
Dress made with 24,000 LEDs
This crazy-looking dress, created by two designers in London for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, is made of silk chiffon and 24,000 full color LEDs. It's called the Galaxy Dress. It runs on tiny iPod batteries woven into the fabric so no one part becomes extra-bulky or heavy. The ca... More.

This article is useless without pictures...
picture available at http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3539376.html
"The park used to be a great place for families, but now what attracts my son the most is the huge breasts." for the win.
I had assumed the "eight-inch" part was a typo. I was very mistaken.
It's better with the photo after the jump because it gives your mind a moment or two to imagine what it might look like.
Awesome art if you ask me. If they don't like it send it here... Ill put it out the front of an implant clinic.
That is disturbing...
I believe we've seen similar art on Boing Boing in the past. Ahh, found it:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/15/crazy-sculptures-of-.html
You can argue if it's art, but there's no mistaking those are breasts.