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First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 19 mins ago - 1 reports

3D printed bio-absorbable splint saves baby with otherwise fatal impaired breathing

div class="video-container"> Elijah sez, "Recent news has been all about the commercial use of 3D printing - from food to weaponry. But recently, doctors at the University of Michigan used quick thinking and 3D printing technology to save the life ... [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

Entities: 3D Printing, Ann Arbor (United States), Trachea, Stent, Airway

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 1 reports

Luke Skywalker's pants sold for $36,000

Luke Skywaler's filthy Levi's worn in the original Star Wars just sold at auction for $36,100. The "sand-colored 'cotton drill'" Levi's were customized by famed London costume-maker Bermans & Nathans. " Lot #555: Mark Hamill's Screen-Worn Hero Pants ... [Published Boing Boing - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Star Wars, Cotton, London

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Tumblr Inc

The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture

A good read in The Daily Dot about a "major piece of the puzzle" in Tumblr's origin myth that’s often overlooked: "[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation ... [Published Boing Boing - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Tumblr Inc, David Karp

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Monster money!

Google Translate says that the caption on this image is Japanese for "Bill of surprised frontispiece monster world." I can't really hazard any guesses beyond that, but hey, monster money! 『びっくり口絵怪物世界のお札』 ( via Crazy Abalone ) ... [Published Boing Boing - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Abalone, Google Translate

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

How Edmund Wilson said NO

Here's literary critic Edmund Wilson's form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn't a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers ... [Published Boing Boing - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Edmund Wilson, Hermit

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Swiss Army Knife

Victorian-era multitool for women: the chatelaine

Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Our Senior Victorian Accessories Correspondent, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, has just written a piece about the chatelaine, which was the killer hands-free device for women back in the Victorian era. For his article, ... [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Swiss Army Knife, Thimble, Victorian Era

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-in-one 3D scanning

div class="video-container"> Here's a video from last week's Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to ... [Published Boing Boing - 10 hours ago]

Entities: 3D Scanning, 3D Printing, Maker Faire

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Watch the latest hand-picked videos in Boing Boing's video archives

Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page : •Nikola Tesla pitches VCs • Conversations with my 2 year old: a web video series. • 3D printing saved a baby's life. • Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" music video. • New Boards ... [Published Boing Boing - 11 hours ago]

Entities: 3D Printing, Nikola Tesla, VCs

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

McThanks

Matthew says: "Charles Ramsay, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in Cleveland, is getting complimentary McDonald's for the next year ." ... [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Big Mac, McDonald's Corporation, Cleveland (Ohio, United States)

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Prosthetic tentacle

Taiwanese design student Kaylene Kau created this motorized prosthetic tentacle for a class project: "For this project we were pushed by our Professor to push the boundaries of current upper-limb prosthetic design. Through extensive research I found ... [Published Boing Boing - 13 hours ago]

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

How London cops use social media to spy on protest movements

Juha sez, "If you're going to build a protest movement, it might be better to stay off Facebook and Twitter because the cops are fully tuned into social media these days. The Open Source Intelligence Unit at London's Metropolitan Police Service has ... [Published Boing Boing - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Social Media, protest, London

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Watch the latest hand-picked videos in Boing Boing's video archives

Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page : •Nikola Tesla pitches VCs •Open source hardware 3D printer for pizza-on-demand • Controversial banana-touching. • NASA solar flare video with Lars Leonhard music. • ... [Published Boing Boing - May 22 2013]

Entities: Nikola Tesla, Swiss Army Knife, Sally Ride

Quotes

A good read in The Daily Dot about a "major piece of the puzzle" in Tumblr's origin myth that’s often overlooked: "[Founder DavidDavid Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging."

The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture [Published Boing Boing - 9 hours ago]

Victorian-era multitool for women: the chatelaine [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

"It was amazing. As soon as the splint was put in, the lungs started going up and down for the first time and we knew he was going to be OK" said Green

3D printed bio-absorbable splint saves baby with otherwise fatal impaired breathing [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

Matthew says: "Charles Ramsay, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in Cleveland, is getting complimentary McDonald's for the next year ."

McThanks [Published Boing Boing - 12 hours ago]

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How Edmund Wilson said NO [Published Boing Boing - 8 hours ago] Here's literary critic Edmund Wilson's form-letter for turning down requests from strangers. As Tim Ferriss notes, Wilson wasn't a hermit or antisocial, but he maximized the time he spent socializing with the people he liked by not letting strangers ...
The unsung heroes of early Tumblr culture [Published Boing Boing - 9 hours ago] A good read in The Daily Dot about a "major piece of the puzzle" in Tumblr's origin myth that’s often overlooked: "[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation ...
3D printing: with 2D; with holograms; and all-i... [Published Boing Boing - 10 hours ago] div class="video-container"> Here's a video from last week's Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to ...
Monster money! [Published Boing Boing - 11 hours ago] Google Translate says that the caption on this image is Japanese for "Bill of surprised frontispiece monster world." I can't really hazard any guesses beyond that, but hey, monster money! 『びっくり口絵怪物世界のお札』 ( via Crazy Abalone ) ...
Watch the latest hand-picked videos in Boing Bo... [Published Boing Boing - 11 hours ago] Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page : •Nikola Tesla pitches VCs • Conversations with my 2 year old: a web video series. • 3D printing saved a baby's life. • Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" music video. • New Boards ...