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Are you a hardcore soccer fan and love the fact that the soccer season has just started in Europe? Then you might want to check out this pair of RC soccer boots. Yes, you won’t even need to wear it to move around, since each of these boots will feature a quartet of wheels under them, allowing you to steer it in just about any direction you want thanks to an included wireless remote. A quartet of AA batteries ought to last you through two halves of a soccer match, with half-time included. Not only that, a plastic scoop accessory has been included for beginners who have yet to get the hang of the game’s physics. At $76 thereabouts

Lost! For $195, you can own all six seasons on Blu-ray, re-living the last six years of ups and downs and sideways emotions you experienced along with the show. Oh, and there are bonus features.

I can’t talk about the extra New Man in Charge feature or some of the hidden details within the packaging itself—there’s a blacklight included just for the purposes of finding those secrets. But I can describe what’s in the box. There’s the Senet game played by you know who in Season 6, a little replica map of the island, an episode guide, a Black Rock diary entry, that blacklight and the 6 seasons worth of Blu-rays. It’s up to you to dig around inside the box to find hidden stuff. (I’ve only discovered one so far over the weekend, so I have some exploration to do.) Read the rest of this entry »

Now that’s a handy magic trick: Observe! This lot, empty but for the world’s largest augmented reality marker. Astonish! As a towering skyscraper flickers to life in its place. Wonder! At just how big a camera they must have needed.

The record-setting AR marker—Guinness-certified!—was dreamt up by architects at Königsberger Vannucchi, a Brazilian firm that wanted to give potential clients an augmented taste of what their proposed Fibrasa Connection development would look like. The result: a 360-degree, 3D rendering that beats the heck out of a pile of blueprints

Armed with RFID chips and a disdain for those residents who simply refuse to put out their recyclables in a timely manner, an army of “smart” recycling bins will soon descend on Cleveland to enact their green environmental goodness.

The bins will be an expansion of a 15,000 resident experimental program that tracked whether or not people were putting their recycling bins out on the curb. If a resident does not take their bin out for a few weeks, the system is notified and a fine could levied against the offender if a visiting “trash supervisor” determines their normal trash bins are filled with more than 10% recyclable material.

The $2.5 million program goes into effect next year for 25,000 residents, with 25,000 person expansions planned for each following year until all of Cleveland’s 150,000 residents are covered. Read the rest of this entry »