Editorial Discoveries
484 articles
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A Sauna Was Folded Into Something That Looks Like a Sleeping Bag
HigherDOSE’s infrared sauna blanket creates a heated cocoon for home sessions without requiring a dedicated sauna room. — via higherdose.com
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These Giant Bird Prints Were Made Almost Life-Size Two Centuries Ago
John James Audubon’s Birds of America used enormous double-elephant folio pages to depict birds at dramatic scale and with intense visual detail. — via audubon.org
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This LED Face Mask Adds Cooling Pads Under the Eyes
Shark’s CryoGlow combines an illuminated face mask with built-in under-eye cooling, merging two home-beauty routines into one unusual wearable. — via sharkbeauty.com
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A Medieval World Map Puts Jerusalem at the Centre and Fills the Edges With Monsters
Hereford’s Mappa Mundi is a huge medieval map that mixes geography, theology, history, animals and mythical creatures into one dense image of how the world was imagined. — via themappamundi.co.uk
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This Palm-Sized Device Tries to Turn a Sheet-Mask Routine Into a Two-Minute Treatment
FOREO’s UFO combines warming, cooling, vibration and LED features around small treatment masks in a compact circular device. — via foreo.com
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This Soft LED Mask Uses a Medical-Device Approach to At-Home Light Therapy
Omnilux Contour Face uses red and near-infrared LEDs in a flexible mask derived from the company’s professional light-therapy systems. — via omniluxled.com
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One of the Books That Changed Printing History Can Be Viewed Page by Page Online
The Gutenberg Bible is one of the earliest major books produced with movable metal type in Europe and survives today in a small number of precious copies. — via loc.gov
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A Flexible LED Face Mask Wraps Red and Near-Infrared Light Around the Skin
CurrentBody’s flexible mask places LEDs close to the face while leaving the user hands-free during treatment. — via currentbody.com
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Nobody Has Yet Deciphered This 15th-Century Illustrated Manuscript
Yale’s Voynich Manuscript contains mysterious writing, botanical drawings, diagrams and figures that have resisted convincing decipherment for generations. — via beinecke.library.yale.edu
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Thousands of Tiny Bricks Recreate One of Japan’s Most Famous Castles
nanoblock’s deluxe architecture sets use extremely small blocks to create detailed models that are much more intricate than their footprint suggests. — via kawada-toys.com
