The SkyScout is a revolutionary handheld device that uses advanced GPS technology with point and click convenience to identify thousands of stars, planets, constellations and more.

Simply point the SkyScout at any star in the sky and click the target button. The SkyScout will tell you what object you are looking at.

This would have made passing that astronomy final a whole lot simpler. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CNPAAA/104-9631934-7737552?ie=UTF8&tag=geeka07-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000CNPAAA -via Geek Alerts

Bunk Strutts at Say No To Crack explains where these “long eggs” come from. Why, from long chickens, of course!

“Yep they’re longer, bigger hens. But we don’t raise ‘em for the meat so much as the aigs. A reglar chicken don’t lay no more than one a day. These chickens lay one long one every three days, an’ it take about three hens lined up to hatch it.”

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Children of the Nujiang Great Canyon in China must cross a river to get to school, but there is no bridge. Instead, they harness themselves to a loop and cross on a rope suspended between trees on either side! Link

Apelad posted this panel of the Laugh Out Loud Cats at Hobotopia in response to Oscar, the death-predicting cat. Link -via Boing Boing

In this mental_floss article, find out which First Lady sold manure to cover her debts, which was suspected of murder, and which one was (surprisingly) the first one to sport gray hair while living in the White House. And then there’s the really strange ones. Link

Marti Guixe designs many things, including food.

Food Design makes possible to think in food as an edible designed product, an object that negates any reference to cooking, tradition and gastronomy.

For example, these I-cakes are decorated as pie charts that indicates the percentage of different ingredients. Also see Guixe's designs for kitchens, tools, packaging, and food performance as art. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

A Metallica tribute harp band? Ashley Lancz Toman and Patricia Kline are each accomplished harpists who collaborated on 10 Metallica cover songs for the CD Harptallica. You can hear the songs and see a video at their website, and order the CD. http://harptallica.com/ -via Gorilla Mask

Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.

Oscar has lived almost all of his two years in the third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island. Most of the people he visits are unconscious, so his visits don’t frighten them. Experts don’t know what clues Oscar senses, but an animal behaviorist says the only way to really track his record of predictions is to carefully document how Oscar behaves with everyone. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501753.html -via Arbroath

The M200G Volantor is a two-passenger flying saucer produced by Moller International. It can take off and land vertically, fly ten feet above ground at up to 50 mph, and carry 250 pounds. The company is taking deposits from the first customers. Link -via J-Walk Blog

The history of the cosmos condensed into a single Earth Year. Narrated by Carl Sagan. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Educated Earth

Maybe San Francisco isn’t the best place for a stretch limosine. This isn’t the first time it’s happened; there are more pictures. http://www.ftlauderdalelimo.com/beach-limo.php -via Reddit

If I saw this in real life, or even in a video, I’d shut my eyes (and hold my breath). I think it may be an insurance ad. -via Bits and Pieces

Dark Roasted Blend has a fascinating roundup of all kinds of automated musical instruments, homemade and historic, robotic and artistic. Link

A one-year-old Jordanian cat named Nimra has a litter of four kittens and seven chicks! The cat took over the chicks after the mother hen died. Link -via Fark

A digital clock and calendar powered by food! This fruit powered digital clock and calendar combines micro-electronic technology with the natural electrical potential of a fresh fruit or vegetable. The Fruit Clock uses the original scientific principles on which all modern electrical storage batteries are based. Just add a fresh orange, apple, lemon, lime, pear, banana, or any another convenient fruit or vegetable to the supplied components in this kit and you have the perfect synthesis of nature’s own electrical power resource and the accuracy of a digital clock.

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