What If Shakespeare Wrote Star Wars?
Imagine a world where George Lucas didn't write the Star Wars saga; but Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare did. How do you think that would turn out?
Think no more, as Ian Doescher's new book, appropriately named William Shakespeare's Star Wars, translates the whole of A New Hope into pure Shakespearean prose.
Robot Book Scanner Captures 250 Pages Every Minute
Researchers in Japan have built a book scanner capable of capturing 250 pages-per-minute. To put that into perspective, it would take under ten minutes to scan the entire Oxford English Dictionary.
Artists Create Bound 'Google Dictionary' Made Up Of Google Images
It might lack the academic merit of the English Oxford dictionary and miss out on the super-quick search functions that it's inspiration has flaunted for years, but the Google dictionary is nonetheless a sight to behold. With its 1,240-odd pages, it's a creation that brings the words of your more traditional dictionary to life in a way befitting the name: by replacing the actual entry with the first Google image result from an equivalent search of the word.