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Goodbye Productivity, Hello Lego!

Now you can play with mountains of Lego, all day while at work, and you don’t even have to tidy up afterwards. Lego have partnered up with Google Chrome to create a Lego sandbox virtual world in a web...

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British Trains Resort to Twitter to Try and Calm Irate Commuters

Commuting into London by train is stressful enough when the trains are working, so it’s not surprising commuters go mad when their trains are delayed. And the only thing more angry that a delayed...

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Soho Stories: The X-rated App From the National Trust

For pensioners used to touring stately homes, crack den history may be a bit of a shock, but the National Trust just released a vice-filled audio tour of Soho. The app is presented by veteran Soho...

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American Children are Actually Taught Nessie Is Real

No, really. Children in some US schools are being taught that the Loch Ness monster is a living dinosaur, as evidence against evolution. What the hell? The New York Daily News reported that biology...

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Is This the Lamest Burger Idea Yet?

Someone at KFC needs to get the sack. We’ve seen crazy burgers before, the Darth Vader burger for example — I can admire the imaginative insanity behind that — but putting a slice of cheese on top is...

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Crook Sells Potatoes as iPhones to Unsuspecting Britons

A sneaky con man has managed trick at least three people in Hull into buying a potato, or bottled water, when they thought they were getting a shiny new iPhone. The guy just puts a potato in an iPhone...

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Now You Can Buy an Entire Tuscan Village on eBay

That’s right, anyone with a couple of million pounds to spare could be the lucky new owner of a whole Italian village. The place has been deserted for 50 years, so there’s not even any pesky locals to...

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£3,100 is So Not Enough Compensation for Feeding Your Family Used-Condom...

A Brazilian housewife has been awarded £3,100 after she found a used condom in her tin of tomato paste. British firm Unilever was forced to pay up after the woman cooked a meal for her family using the...

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Google Glass Has an Android-Powered Competitor That You Can Buy Right Now

If you like the look of Google Glass but are desperate to feel like Master Chief right now, then look no further than the MOD Live. This nifty heads-up-display features a control grip with D-pad and...

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Arcadie For iPhone Lightning Review: A Mini Arcade Cabinet You Can Take With You

The Arcadie brings me back to the good old days when the joystick was king. Not my good old days of course — I’m far too young — but I hear there was some appeal to wasting all your money stood in a...

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Go Compare Defaces Its Own Ads, So You Don’t Have to

That excruciatingly noisy Go Compare man has been driving the British public mad for far too long now, so Go Compare came up a new way to catch your eye; pre-defaced billboards. It’s a great piece of...

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Watch This Hilarious Russian Racoon Try and Fail to Top Himself Again and Again

This dark comedy sequence about a suicidal racoon is just an advert for superglue, but it’s proper funny. The melancholy little fellow just wants to end it all, but the sodding superglue is just too...

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If Cars Can Have Airbags, Why Can’t Bikes?

That’s what one Singaporean design student thought. Alvin Chan is entering the prestigious Dyson Awards with his Cyclist Emergency Protection System (EMPS) — an all-in-one cycle safety device. The...

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Forget Euro 2012, Egg Russian Roulette’s the Sport For Us

England have just won a glorious victory at the world Russian Roulette Egg Championships. That’s right, national hero Jerry Cullen has managed what Rooney and co couldn’t, and brought it home to...

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Six Alternative Olympic Sports We Wish We Could Watch Instead

Tired of the corporate love-in; security fears and traffic chaos of the London Olympics, but just really love sport? We’re in the same boat, so put together a list of alternative British Olympic events...

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Stretching and Flexibility: Olympian Advice For Lazy Giz Readers

Oh, to be as stretchy as a gymnast; a carefree life full of surfing the internet with my legs behind my head, and opening doors with my feet when my hands are full. Elsa Garcia, Mexico’s poster girl...

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Should Darts be an Olympic Sport?

Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony was a brilliant mess of unabashedly bonkers Britishness, but all this national character suddenly feels lacking when watching the sports on offer. You could argue that...

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Seven Marvellous Olympic Cheats

The Olympics has a long and inspirational history full of, triumph, glory, perseverance and dedication, but it’s also got a tonne of cheating gits who’d do anything to get their grubby little hands on...

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How One Man Is Keeping the Spirit of the Olympics Alive, With His Tube Challenge

For two magical weeks, London usurped Disneyland to become the happiest place on earth. Underground passengers made eye contact (and occasionally spoke!); there were smiling faces on every street...

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How the Tate Brought a Pioneering Art-Robot Back Online

Dismantled almost 40 years ago, the robotic art pioneer Edward Ihnatowicz’s robo-creation Senster is featured this week in the “The Gallery of Lost Art“, the Tate’s new online exhibition that unveils...

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