This hotel in Berlin is not falling over (or folding). It’s actually built like that on purpose. Billed as the first hotel in Europe specifically designed for musicians, the Nhow Hotel features state-of-the-art recording studios and guitars. The interior design, by Karim Rashid, has been described as “an amusement park for lovers of glossy, hyper design.”

(via Jetsetta via Neatorama)

Bill Warren made one of the better yard sale deals we’ve seen when he purchased what looks a lot like a Tasmanian tiger pelt for $5.

The Tasmanian tiger, despite its colloquial name, was a marsupial that looked more like a dog than anything else. It was discovered by Western science around the year 1800, and the last known member of the species died in captivity in 1936. The last real thylacine pelt sold at auction for $68,000.

Unfortunately for Warren, he is unable to sell the pelt out of state, due to a kink in US endangered species laws.

If you don’t happen to own an iPhone or iPod touch that you depend on for alarms, please disregard the rest of this message and enjoy the above video of the most boring dads in the world telling you to turn your clocks back with a parody of We Are The World.

If you do happen to use recurring alarms on iPhone or iPod, you should know that there’s a glitch that will, unless you do a couple of simple things, fail to take into account daylight savings and may make you late.

If you live in an area that doesn’t observe Daylight Savings Time, I guess you can just disregard this entire post.

No, we’re not talking about something from Axe Cop. Or Dr. McNinja. This is an honest-to-god RC airplane that looks like a shark. We can just see a gaggle of them chasing Adam West across a theme park. Also in our nightmares.

We see them in our nightmares.

(via Neatorama.)

Life Size Monopoly House (Neatorama)

Terrifying My Little Pony Zombie (eponyart)

The Fastest Way Around the Bases Is Actually Almost a Circle (ScienceNews)

Marty McFly Imitator for BttF Game Is Amazing (Kotaku)

Photoshop Arms Onto Birds (Something Awful)

Wikileaks Vs. The Pentagon Papers (Death and Taxes)

Today is Wonder Woman Day (Wonder Woman Museum)

(pic via Kotaku.)

John Graham-Cumming is currently collecting funds to use Charles Babbage‘s original blueprints to finally build his unfinished masterpiece: an entirely clockwork programmable computer that was conceived in 1837.

Charles Babbage was a visionary thinker of the 1800′s who had a lot of great ideas (like calculating mathematics by mechanical means)… but no funding. He never managed to get a completed prototype of any of his computers made during his lifetime. Since his death, there have been at least two working Difference Engines constructed. However, the Difference Engine was basically a normal calculator, and could perform only basic mathematical functions.

Graham-Cumming is looking to make a working model of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which was actually a programmable computer. The graphic calculator version of the Difference Engine, if you will.

Remember that robot that folded laundry? Well, it’s at it again, earnestly trying to please it’s human overlords with mundane household tasks.  On the docket today?

Fine motor control and tactile cues.  Or, in other words, when to let go of an item when someone tries to take it from them, understanding when to stop its movement because it might damage something, and not crushing things with its terrifying robot strength.  Even as a PHD student repeatedly tries to mess with it.

Laundry folding robot just wants to be your friend.

(via Neatorama.)

Real Dragon*Con Missed Connections (Creative Loafing)

Film Industry Hiring Software Firms to DDoS Filesharers? (Sydney Morning Herald)

A Dozen Facts About Lost In Space (Neatorama)

Blizzard Accedentally Implements Draconian StarCraft 2 DRM, Promises Patch (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

Best Unfounded Rumor We’ve Heard All Week: Dr. Strange by Pixar (ScreenRant)

PlayStation Fans Infographic(Joystiq)

Robo Copolean On A Unicorn (You Heard Me!) (Fashionably Geek)

(pic by avid, via Geeks Are Sexy)

Australian scientists have successfully used beams of light to move some particles of glass four and a half feet.

From Inside Science:

The device works by shining a hollow laser beam around tiny glass particles. The air surrounding the particle heats up, while the dark center of the beam stays cool. When the particle starts to drift out of the middle and into the bright laser beam, the force of heated air molecules bouncing around and hitting the particle’s surface is enough to nudge it back to the center.

Now that Google search is instant, we’re all having to adjust just a little bit. Some others have adjusted quite quickly, and we can just sit back and watch the fruits of their efforts.

The people at Whirled Creative have illustrated Tom Lehrer‘s The Elements using only footage from Google Instant. Enjoy.