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How Long Would It Take to 3D Print Your Dream House?

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3D Print Your House

3D printing is all the rage these days. The technology has been used to print a wide range of objects, from shoes and handguns to custom splints for medical applications. What they haven’t managed to 3D print yet are houses. Don’t expect that to happen anytime soon, though, because it’ll probably take a whole new kind of plastic to actually print a house that’ll last. Aside from the material, it’s also going to take an infinitesimally long amount of time given the size and capacities of current 3D printers.

If you’re curious, real estate blog Movoto has come up with a calculator that’ll let you compute how long it’ll take to 3D print the house of your dreams. It will also provide you with a rough estimate of the cost of your 3D-printed home, along with the number of bricks your house will need. You can check out the 3D Print your House calculator online.

VIA [ C|NET ]

Momtract Makes Every Agreement Between Moms and Their Kids a Legally Binding One

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Being a mom is no joke. It’s a tiring role, but with what’s expected of moms, they might as well call it a job. The hardest part is having to discipline the kids. It’s no fun, their hearts might break when they have to punish the kids, but it’s something that must be done all the same.

Mother’s Day may have come and gone, but one thing that was created because of it lives on: the Momtract.

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It’s a tool that was created by Mother New York, which essentially creates binding contracts for “sons and daughters to contractually forsake control over one part of their lives.”

The contract goes on to make the following warning: “If you don’t meet the terms of the agreement, she can sue you.” The contract is legally binding for one year and “should there be a default on the contract, penalties include fines of up to $20,000 and a maximum number of 12 non-holiday visits from your wronged mother.”

Check it out here, and draw a Momtract up between you and your mom. Remember, it’s better late than never.

[via Laughing Squid]

Pay for a Blast from the Past: Rent a ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean

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Ever wished you could go back to the past or travel through time into the future? I have, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. A lot of people would give the pageant-perfect answer and say no, explaining that they wouldn’t be who they were today had they changed their past experiences.

I agree with that sentiment most of the time, but there’s also the case of committing mistakes consciously, just because you were in the heat of the moment or just weren’t thinking at all, period. Of course, time travel is impossible in this world, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t pay to experience a literal blast from the past.

Rent a DeLorean

There’s currently a rental service that’s lending off a street-legal DeLorean time machine that looks like it came off the set of Back to the Future. It’s not one of the actuals car they used in the movie, though it’s a pretty good replica of the iconic car-slash-time machine.

The rental service is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the warm season and in Las Vegas, Nevada during the cold season. However, they can travel to “practically any location in the continental United States and Canada,” should you have a need for a time-traveling DeLorean.

Hourly rates are discussed on a case-to-case basis, so you might want to get in touch with Time Machine Rental if you’re interested.

Oh, and where you’re going, you’re probably going to need roads.

[via This is Why I'm Broke via Laughing Squid]

How Happy is the World Based on People’s Tweets? This Site Will Tell You

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Happiness Website

You can tell a lot about a person and his or her moods based on their tweets. Mathematicians Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds and scientists from the University of Vermont and the Mitre Corporation are well aware of that fact and have been working to gauge the world’s happiness based on the Twitter feeds of worldwide users since 2008.

They’ve collaborated to builda a piece of software called the Hedonometer which uses information pulled from Twitter Garden Hose to determine the world’s current happiness level.

The data from Twitter Garden Hose provides their program with a random sample of 10 percent of all tweets. In a way, the moods recorded aren’t representative of all the world’s users, but it still gives you considerable insight, considering the fact that 10 percent is equivalent to millions upon millions of tweets.

Check it out here.

VIA [ C|NET ]

How Happy is the World Based on People’s Tweets? This Site Will Tell You

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Happiness Website

You can tell a lot about a person and his or her moods based on their tweets. Mathematicians Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds and scientists from the University of Vermont and the Mitre Corporation are well aware of that fact and have been working to gauge the world’s happiness based on the Twitter feeds of worldwide users since 2008.

They’ve collaborated to builda a piece of software called the Hedonometer which uses information pulled from Twitter Garden Hose to determine the world’s current happiness level.

The data from Twitter Garden Hose provides their program with a random sample of 10 percent of all tweets. In a way, the moods recorded aren’t representative of all the world’s users, but it still gives you considerable insight, considering the fact that 10 percent is equivalent to millions upon millions of tweets.

Check it out here.

VIA [ C|NET ]

MightyMega Launches: Our New Science Fiction Website Goes Online

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For those of you who follow Technabob regularly, you might know we have another website, The Awesomer. Now, we’ve added a third site to our little family, a new science fiction website, called MightyMega.

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MightyMega will be home to all things science fiction, from movies, to TV series, to collectibles and toys, to short films, books, props, costumes and anything else in the expansive realm of science fiction. In addition to fiction, we’ll be covering the real-world science that inspires science fiction, and the science fiction that inspires real-world science.

The site will be edited by my good friend Kenny Hoeschen, a man with a deep appreciation for all things science fiction, and a great sense of humor and wit.

Please stop by the MightyMega website and check it out. Expect numerous posts every day, so stop by frequently for new updates, or better yet, subscribe to the MightyMega RSS feed or daily email. You can also follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

LivesOn Keeps Your Twitter Feed Alive, Even When You’re Dead

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Lives On

There’s a special group of Internet users that I call the Tweet Freaks. They’re the people who can’t go an hour without checking their Twitter feeds or posting updates about mundane stuff that no one else would really care about. If you have people in your network who’re like that, then you might want to tell them about _LIVESON. If you’re a Tweet Freak yourself, then I’m sure you’d love to heard about this as well. But just to make it less painful for everyone’s eyes, let’s call it LivesOn.

LivesOn is a Twitter tool like no other, promising to give you a ‘social afterlife’ once you pass in the physical world. It will ‘learn’ your tastes, preferences, and syntax by analyzing your current feed, so that it can continue posting status updates on the micro-blogging site even when you’re already dead. In short, LivesOn allows you to tweet from the grave, unless the person you appoint as your executor decides to give it the ax.

The service launches on March 2013.

VIA [ Cnet ]

PayPal offers preview of much-needed site redesign, finally enters Web 2.0

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PayPal offers preview of much needed site redesign

While PayPal's recently revamped homepage looks fresh and modern, the actual account interface is still mired in the past, seemingly unchanged since the early aughts when the company first hit it big alongside Ugg boots and American Idol. As the online payment giant seeks to reinvent itself however, it's finally bringing the site design into the future. PayPal has offered a sneak peek at the new look, and it's certainly more in line with current design tropes, with a cleaner and clearer aesthetic and improved navigation to boot. The refreshed design also hints at the company's upcoming retail efforts like in-store checkouts and purchasing grace periods where you can buy the item at the store, bring it home and then decide where the funds should come from. We're still not sure when the redesign will roll out, but we're guessing it'll be around when those Discover Network cards come into play. For more screenshots of the new PayPal, take the design tour at the source.

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Man Puts Himself Up For ‘Sale’ on Amazon–His Asking Price? A Job!

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This is Philippe Dubost, and he’s putting himself up for sale on Amazon. At least, that’s what he made it look like anyway.

What you see above is a screenshot of Philippe’s resume, and it’s definitely one of the most creative ones we’ve seen so far. He’s a web product manager, so it make sense that he’d choose this medium to show off his skills and qualifications. Obviously, the listing isn’t really up on Amazon (I’m sure they wouldn’t allow it anyway). Rather, it’s hosted on Philippe’s own domain, and he’s dubbed the page as an ‘Amaz-ing Resume’. Amaz-ing…get it?

The whole resume is based on Amazon’s product listing layout with a few obvious modifications. The fun part is that Philippe even inserted a couple of ads to the page just to make it look more like an actual Amazon listing. But just in case someone didn’t get what he was trying to do, he added a short note to the footer:

This website was made in Jan 2013 by Philippe Dubost for the sole purpose of a playful and creative job search. No copyright infringement intended.

This unusual resume might not be for everyone, so Philippe included a link to his LinkedIn page where you can check out his credentials the typical (and more boring) way.

VIA [ Bit Rebels ]

‘Doodle or Die’ is Kind Of Like ‘Draw Something’, Except You Play On a Browser Instead

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Doodle or Die

Remember Draw Something, that interactive doodling game by OMGPOP that quickly went viral upon its release? Its popularity died out almost just as fast as it rose (I bet Zynga felt like slapping themselves silly since they acquired the developer for hundreds of millions at its peak) when mobile gamers moved on to the next hot thing in gaming.

Doodle or Die follows the same premise, since players are expected to enter random phrases and create drawings based on the phrases that other people have turned it. The difference is that you can play with random people and keep drawing and drawing without having to wait for turns. That, and the fact that it’s the players who decide what to draw in the first place. In short, I guess you can think of it as chain-drawing game of sorts where you alternate between drawing stuff and describing stuff as you play.

It’s amazing what some people on the site have drawn so far. You can check out a couple of impressive drawings done by other players after the break.

Doodle or Die

The game was developed by  Aaron Silverman, Dylan Greene, Garrett Miller and David “Wyn” Bennett.

VIA [ Laughing Squid ]