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Careful now. It’s just one small step from “cradle pods” to Matrix style human battery pods.

You know how they call people who listen to iPods all the time Podlings? I’ve got a new definition for podlings for your right here. And it’s not nearly so silly! It’s much cooler! This one’s defined by a napping space for small children. It’s made of steel AND lacquered steel, each pod oriented in accord with its distance from the ground. Each pod to each baby, for each baby a different pod.

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Looks like a horse to me. Is there a Horseman of Electro-Magnetic Doom?

Space Weather reports that one of the largest solar prominences in years erupted from the sun’s northwestern limb yesterday, April 13. “The massive plasma-filled structure rose up and burst during a ~2 hour period around 0900 UT on April 13th.” Observers in Europe had the best view, and this photo was shot by Jo Dahlmans of Ulestraten, Netherlands, using his Coronado Personal Solar Telescope. “The eruption hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME, movie) into space. The expanding cloud could deliver a glancing blow …
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What a great way to ruin a perfectly good coffee mug.

As a we’re-friendly-to-the-planet promotion, Starbucks is handing out free coffee to anyone who brings a reusable travel mug to the coffee mega-chain tomorrow, April 15th. Consider it a secondary reward for how responsibly you handled your tax filings this year. (Right?) [Starbucks via Consumerist]

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Excellent… I’ll take one million for my first order, as well as recommendations for cities to invade. Muwahahahaha!

Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.

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• Robot spider!
• HOW TO – Make electronic spider

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Now I know many of use could have used this earlier.

A snip shown above. View the full faux form here at the New York Times. Created by designer Sam Potts.

(via thisisisnthappiness thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

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