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This is a video of Eric Buss's Bubble Wrap Bike (aka the Pollutionmobile), a bicycle that dispenses and pops a strip of bubble wrap as you ride it. Neat idea, Eric, but I've been developing a bike that dispenses meals for the homeless as you ride it. What can I say, I'm a dreamer. Still, mad props if you can rob a bank and manage to use this thing as your getaway bike. Hit the jump for a brief video of the bike in action.

A cutting edge smartphone that will run on the new Ubuntu for Phones operating system: it has a mobile interface, but if you dock the phone you’ll get to use the full Ubuntu desktop OS. Software overview video here.

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As you all know by now, we love finding extraordinary destinations off the beaten path like Lake Baikal in Siberia. Today, we bring you another one which can only be described as surreal or otherworldly. Fly Geyser (or Fly Ranch Geyser) is a a small geothermal geyser that is located approximately 20 miles north of Gerlach, in Washoe County, Nevada. Called "one of the most beautiful sights in Nevada," the geyser is a little-known tourist attraction even to Nevada residents.

Accidentally created in 1916 during well drilling, the geyser started spewing water in the 1960s when a geothermally heated pack of water found a weak spot in the wall and began escaping. Dissolved minerals rose and accumulated creating the mound on which the geyser sits. Water now continually spews into the air, reaching up to 5 feet, making it resemble a miniature volcano.

I like what the photographer Jared Ropelato says about it, "As you walk around Fly Geyser you notice that this thing has a bit of Beauty, and a bit of the Beast. A little Jeckyl and a little Hyde. The color however, is like a rainbow on all sides."

Photographer Christian Klepp described it this way, "This weird and unearthly landscape could have existed somewhere on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io....Such unearthly landscapes are rare on Earth, but they exist. Maybe this helps to imagine how Earth might have looked like at its very beginning. Heat and sulfur resistant bacteria feed on the boiling water of the geyser. Just like in the beginning of life on Earth."

Here are some of our favorite photos of one of the world's most amazing places.

Photo credit: Inge Johnsson

Photo credit: Jared Ropelato

Photo credit: Jared Ropelato

Photo credit: Michael Flick

Photo credit: Lenae Payne

Photo credit: Quang Le Hong

Photo credit: Quang Le Hong

Photo credit: Christian Klepp

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Photo credit: Frans Lanting

Photo credit: Dan Newton

If you'd like to visit this destination, heed this warning. Fly Geyser sits on private property. It is located behind a locked gate and is rarely open to the public.

These are the Metal Core Door Sticker Decals available from Gadgets and Gear. Each $60 sticker (preorder, regularly $80) is designed to make a regular-ass door look like a different sci-fi themed door, including: airlock, armory, freight elevator, and lab door. I'm going to put an airlock one on my roommate's door, then feed him a bunch of acid and convince him we're on a spaceship and the rest of the crew has voted him out an airlock for stealing astronaut ice cream. I want him to cry like he's never cried before. Hit the jump for a closeup of each and a shot of what they'll actually look like in your apartment.

Ever wanted to play Pac-Man in the style of a first person shooter? Well tear your shirt off and start waving it around like you're at a Kid Rock concert, because this is your lucky day. 'FPS-Man' was created by game designer Tom Davies and available for free play over at Kongregate. It has creepy music, a map to show you were the remaining pellets and power pellets are, and...that's about it. I just played for ten minutes while I had a client on hold, during which time I actually forgot I had him on hold, then picked up the phone and tried to order a pizza from him. Thanks to Ed and FrozenCookieDough (OMG, love your stuff), who want to play Donkey Kong as a first person shooter.

This is the $150 Tron: Legacy inspired bicycling skinsuit available from Podium Racing (of Pee-wee Herman skinsuit fame). Unfortunately, it doesn't actually light up, so unless you invest in some of those flashing bike lights you're going to look like a ninja pedaling around at night. And have you ever seen a ninja biking at night? Exactly, it's nearly impossible until they're rolling across your windshield. This message brought to you by orphaned ninja children and the Ad Council. Thanks to brie, who bikes with a strobe light and disco ball and isn't sure if it prevents or causes more accidents.

There's a great scene in the first season of Mad Men where Don unveils a campaign for Bethlehem Steel. "New York, Chicago, and Detroit—all brought to you by Bethlehem," reads the copy. The client rejects the pitch, but the sentiment itself was hard to argue with: steel from those small rustbelt towns was feeding the growth of a kind of city never imagined before the 20th century.

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This is a video from China of some employee of the month haphazardly tossing boxes at an airplane loading conveyer belt and missing half of them. I don't really understand why he does such a piss poor job, because eventually he has to get down and pick up all the boxes he missed. Like, why not do a good job the first time, then you don't have to do it a second time. Am I making too much sense? I'll stop now before someone calls the police accusing me of having the real GW locked up in my basement. Hit the jump for a solid work ethic in action.

This is an anti-drunk driving PSA from London that scares unsuspecting bar patrons in the bathroom when a fake bloody mannequin head smashing through the mirror as they wash their hands after taking a piss (I know -- some guys actually do that you filthy monster). The commercial's tagline is, 'What impact could a drink have on your night out?', but none of the guys who witnessed the face-through-the-mirror smashing got to see that, so I'm pretty sure they all left thinking somebody just died in the bathroom. BARKEEP, MY TAB -- I'm kinda in a hurry. Hit the jump for the video but PROTIP: lower the volume on your speakers first.

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This is the MWE Labs Emperor 1510LX, a $21,500 computer workstation. It leans back, has a retractable monitor arm, moving leg rest, cup holder, and a bunch of other features that struggle to justify its $21,500 price tag (although that cup holder does cover about $10,000 of it). Did I mention you have to provide your own monitors? Because those aren't included. It can support up to five though. As much as I'd like to make fun of it, a workstation like this does serve one purpose. Convincing people you're hooked into the Matrix. That or watching five pornos at once. So two purposes. *coworker enters office* NOT NOW MICHAEL, I'M IN THE MATRIX. "It sounds like an orgy in there." Yeah, this Matrix is weird -- mind locking my door on your way out? Hit the jump for several more shots and a video of the pod's movement.

This is an animated gif of an extremely elated Arvind Mahankali moments after winning the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee by successfully spelling 'knaidel', a Yiddish form of unleavened dough dumpling. Afterwards, the 13-year old kicked over the podium and flipped off the audience before climbing onto the back of the second place winner and yelling, 'GIDDY UP, BRONCO!' Or he might have just kept standing there -- he's a loose cannon. Thanks to PYY, who informed me nobody should ever be able to take a confetti shower IN THEIR HONOR with a straight face. It isn't right.

I posted about Monkey Lights back in 2009, and now the company's back with a NEW AND IMPROVED version with cooler animations. I want to be able to spell out words with them, and I want the front wheel to say, 'IF YOU CAN READ THIS' and the back one, 'DIE SCUMBAG!'. The new Monkey Light Pro system is currently a Kickstarter project, and the bad news is it costs $500 for the four light bars required for one wheel animation. So that's a cool $1,000 to get both wheels animated. That's a lot of money. Unless -- UNLESS -- you're using it to advertise your business. Then it's a tax write off. New plan -- front wheel: 'HANDJOBS', back wheel: '$5'. Hit the jump for a couple more gifs and a worthwhile video with even more animations.

Where do boats go when they die? Sometimes they end up in vast ship graveyards, sometimes craggy, foggy places where ships have met their doom, and sometimes spots where ships are deliberately left to rust. There's a quiet beauty to many of these graveyards and their resting inhabitants.

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A few years ago Fox and Pepsi had a contest where the winner would get their own real-life version of The Simspons' house. But taking things about a million steps further, Universal Orlando is adding the entire town of Springfield to its theme park—at least the parts that fans really care about.

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We had the opportunity to grab an early look at the new and refreshed Google Maps, but not everyone is as fortunate; you either had to be an I/O attendee or hope you received an invitation after requesting one. However, a tipster has sent Android Police a set of instructions that'll let you get in on the new Maps without those pre-requisites. All you need is the ability to manually set cookies via a Chrome extension like this one or an alternate browser. Then visit the Google Maps page, replace the cookie labeled NID with a special code (we've included it after the break), and voilà, the brand new Google Maps will appear before your eyes. Now you too will be able to enjoy more visually enticing navigation -- just don't expect it to feel like a skydive.

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When a laptop or a phone blows up it's usually because of some dangerous exploding battery. But what if you want to make a laptop self destruct and blow up on its own? You'll have to make something that Q from James Bond would invent, basically. The genius Caleb Kraft did just that.

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Facade or fantasm, this series of images presents an alluring picture of the layers – perhaps even literal  levels – of  history that lies beneath aged and famous buildings.

Blending physical fact and historical fantasy, these advertisements (for titled “Discover the Full Story”) extend three archetypal works of Soviet architecture to new subterranean depths. They seem a fitting set to promote the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, Russia.

The Kremlin, with its recognizably colorful onion towers, reveals even more (and larger) turrets below – what is on the surface turns out to be just the uppermost peaks. Neo-Classical and Gothic Revival play their parts as well, turning what looks like an old Greek tempt into the top of an edifice, and a stately structure into a skyscraper.

And for those who enjoy process as much as product, it is interesting to see the stages these illustrations went through to get to their final form – sketched figures and pillars, hand-drafted architectural elements, and then finishing touches.

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Leap Motion demonstrates how its much-awaited gesture controller can be used to interact with Windows 8. The tiny sensor lets you use multi-touch gestures in mid-air. We want to control our TVs this way.

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Wait for it. Wait for ittttt. Waaaitttt forrr itttt. Waai... and then boom, there it is. This poor guy accidentally deployed his parachute too early. So early that he was still on the plane. As you can imagine, he immediately got sucked out of the plane. It's like a scene from the movies, the parachute drags him out and you can see his body whip back. Scary. [Suigenesis via Digg Videos]

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