I don’t smoke, and I don’t suggest it for you either, but if you need an ashtray, this is hilarious.

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See more here: http://www.findingcheska.com/eng/product/lung/index.htm

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What if electronic devices got charged and recharged from radio waves travelling through the air?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/04/01/8403349/index.htm?postversion=2007033007

I have no idea if this actually works, but it would be very cool if it did…

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A neat mockup of what Google’s homepage would look like if it was designed by Yahoo: http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/today_in_stupid/mockup_what_if_google_made_a_yahoolike_start_page_1.html

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Kazakhstan is planning to build a tent large enough to cover a small indoor city.

Click here for night and day pictures of the project: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1438/Default.aspx

As the BBC reports,

Kazakhstan has unveiled a new architectural project for its capital Astana – a giant transparent tent that will contain an indoor city. The 150m-high (500ft) dome, designed by UK architect Norman Foster, will be built in just over a year. The tent is being made from special material that absorbs sunlight to create the effect of summer inside.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6165267.stm

This reminds me of the famous poem “Khubla Khan, or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment.” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which begins,

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree :

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

The rest of the poem can be read here: http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html

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You can throw this tent in the air, and by the time it lands it has set itself up. What a great design: http://decathlontent.com/

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