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Imagine a gas powered desktop publishing system that weighed several tons, leaked oil, had thousands of moving parts, its own boiler full of molten lead and a keyboard where you couldn’t see what you had typed and which looked a thousand times more strange and complicated than any deliberately anachronistic ‘Steampunk’ PC casemod.

This is how the machines that laid out the pages of newspapers

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"Who needs a warrant when you've got a dog? Olfactory surveillance - the monitoring of personal odour - is on the increase. The number of dogs trained in the detection of criminal suspects and substances is growing. But dogs aren't the only tool envisioned for the future. The Home Office is known to have funded at least one study into the feasibility of releasing swarms of trained bees to search out target odours. The US has similar plans for moths, bees, wasps and cockroaches, and Russia has

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From Luca Turin's Blog of 05-06

A few years ago a committee was set up in France to look into the problem of
plagiarism in fragrance. A jury composed of professionals and perfume lovers was
to decide whether a given fragrance was a blatant copy of an existing one, and act
as an expert witness in several juicy lawsuits. The idea foundered when it became
clear that such a committee would probably reject some of the greatest fragrances
ever made: Rive Gauche

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$500,000 Zenith El Primero Zero-G Multi-Dimensional Tourbillon

By Watchismo



New top-of-the line Zenith debuting at Baselworld 2008 in April. This limited edition all-black PVD coated El Primero Zenith Zero-G Multi-Dimensional Tourbillon will start around 350,000 Euros ($500,000+).