Team Seek $500,000 On Indiegogo To Build Fully Working Iron Man Suit

Want to be Iron Man in real-life?  A team have set up a project on Indiegogo, asking for $500,000 to build a "fully working look alike Iron Man suit."

Everyone dreams of owning an Iron Man armor and we want this dream comes true.

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'Responsive Typography.' Web Design Experiment Uses Face Detection To Adjust Font Size

Responsive web design is one thing; but a font that changes size according to your distance away from the screen?  An experiment by web designer Marko Dugonjić takes the concept of responsive typography to a new level, using face detection to adjust font size by your proximity to the display.

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Kinect Concept 'IllumiRoom' Turns Your Entire Room Into A Video Game

Microsoft Research have lifted the veil on its latest concept named IllumiRoom, which uses a Kinect and a projector to expand video game graphics beyond the boundaries of the television, augmenting the room around it to amazing effect. 

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'Box' Photography Project. Dark, Twisted Dioramas On Miniature Cardboard Sets

Never before has the murder of Santa Claus looked so visually beautiful, as Belgian collective 354 Photographers demonstrate in their ongoing project Box. 

This 3-year-old photography project utilises cardboard and miniature furniture to construct these dramatically bizarre dioramas.  The attraction is unfounded, and you cannot really explain why you're drawn in; but they're fantastic.

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‘World’s Smallest Wearable Camera’ Lets Users Record Their Daily Lives

Our lives may not always be super exciting, but even so, life experiences come and go without a moments notice. Once special moments are consigned to memory, and later often forgotten completely. And this is where a new Kickstarter project comes in.

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The World’s Most Powerful Lasers Set To Tear Apart The Vacuum Of Space-Time Itself

Hoping to conjure enough energy that it ought to be able to pull “virtual” particles out of the vacuum of space-time – quantum mechanics implies that space-time can never truly be ‘empty’ – the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is an undeniably tantalising (yet mind-numbingly complex) prospect.

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68 Billion Blocks Later, WoW's Azeroth Comes To Minecraft

We’ve seen our fair share of ambitious Minecraft builds these past couple of years, but even so they never get any less impressive. From faithful recreations of Hyrule, an extravagant imagining of the USS Enterprise in block form, even entire cities built from the ground-up. But still, not a single one can come close to the ‘Crafting Azeroth’ project, an attempt to build a “full-scale reproduction” of World Of Warcraft’s Azeroth.

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Instacube: The Live Instagram Digital Photo Frame

Ever thought that capturing poorly composed photography and applying viginette filters to give yourself a facade of angst just doesn't make you enough of a hipster anymore?  Your prayers have been answered in hardware form, as the folks at D2M have created a particular device called the Instacube.

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Parkinson's Diagnosed By Voice Analysis Project

Parkinson's disease currently has no cure, is difficult to diagnose, and is an agonising condition for those living with it.  This is where Applied mathematician Max Little comes in, as he introduced his fascinating work into spotting Parkinson's simply by analysing a person's voice. 

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Students Eat 35MM Film For A Photography Project

As part of their final project for a photography class, two students swallowed pieces of 35mm film and collected the pieces after they were digested.  The results are pretty striking to say the least.

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