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Las Vegas Welcome Sign Designer dies at 91

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Betty Willis the designer famous for having designed the neon ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’ passed away. The news was announced on Facebook in a post by the official account of the Neon Museum.The...

Loading Icon Neon Sign Will Make You Want to Turn it Off and On Again

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Thingmade has invented one of the most annoying neon signs on the planet: a physical version of the loading icon. Put it in front of a teenager and he will immediately be unable to even. Such is the power of the Gyroscopic Illuminated Figure. Yes, the GIF.

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The 36″ x 36″ x 5″ sign comes with a switch for adjusting the flickering speed. I don’t know if there’s a setting that makes it steady. Or if the page will ever load.

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As if we needed any more reason to hate it, Thingmade is selling the GIF for $20,000 (USD).

[via Laughing Squid]

Atomic Clear Tube Lighting: Turn Your Pad into Your Steampunk HQ

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There are plenty of different kinds of lights to illuminate your home or office with, but I’ve never seen anything quite as interesting as these lights. They almost look like neon tubes, but the designers say that they can be used to light up ceilings, walls, floors, and just about anything else.

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The Atomic Clear Tubing system was developed by Polish design group Em and Es, and allows people to experiment with the modular design. They can be positioned horizontally and vertically, and are available in modules of 18″, 26″, and 35″, which can work as single units or be joined together. The fittings can be coated in a number of different colors.

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The system also promises to eliminate problems with cables and wires, building the power circuitry into each section.

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[via designboom]

Darth Vader Neon Sign

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Use the Force… of electrically charged neon gas to light up your room. The Star Wars Darth Vader Neon Sign Darth Vader Neon Sign is a nearly 12 inch tall red neon sign of the Dark Lord himself. It’s almost as if his lightsaber is bent into the shape of his own head, which would probably be pretty painful if it actually happened. Mounts on either the wall or upright on a table.

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Neon Ghostbusters Sign, Who Ya Gonna Call? an Electrician

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Best neon sign ever? Probably. Then again, I’m just a sucker for cool Ghostbusters stuff. Just don’t cross the streams or else the neon in these tubes might explode.
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Fans will see at once that this neon sign recreates the Ghostbusters movie poster, but what you may not know is that this sign can be found in the window of a Mexican restaurant called Touche Hombre in Melbourne, Australia. Random, no?

I love that a kick-ass Ghostbusters sign like this can be found at a Mexican restaurant in Australia. That is so awesome! It’s things like this that make geeks travel the world. I wonder how many other establishments have signs like this. Thank you internet. I am well traveled, yet rested.

[My Food Trail via Neatorama]


XBMC for Android available in nightly builds for that risky media fix

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We only just learned in earnest that XBMC was coming to Android last month, and yet we're already looking at workable builds. Kermonine96 at the XDA-Developers forum has started offering his own, unofficial nightly versions of the media center front end, both for regularly supported devices with Neon processor code (most often HTC and Samsung devices) as well as Neon-free hardware, like phones and tablets carrying Tegra 2 chips. Needless to say, the alpha-grade code shouldn't be used as the heart of a mobile media center: hardware decoding isn't functional, battery life is low and even a stable picture isn't guaranteed. That said, anyone who's willing to risk a skip-heavy movie or miss out on plugins now doesn't have to receive the XBMC crew's blessing to get a preview of its Android efforts.

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