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KFC recently announced the "Watt A Box. " It's a box that, in addition to holding your fried chicken, allows you to plug in your phone for a quick charge.

  If you're not familiar with the Hydraulic Press Channel on youtube it is nothing short of amazing. The concept is so simple, a guy from Finland takes all sorts of things, ranging from crushing a diamond, a ball bearing, to an attempt at folding a piece of paper 7 times (my favorite).

As popular as photos have become in social media marketing, they only tell part of the story about your business. Real results are best measured in interactions.

Video games, though a young art form, have reached the age where they kindle a sense of nostalgia for millions of people around the world. Painter and illustrator Astor Alexander is going all kinds of meta with this by producing video game-inspired pieces that mimic a number of other nostalgic art forms.

[caption id="attachment_29031" align="alignnone" width="717"] Source: Oregon State University[/caption] If you're an artist, designer, or are at all interested in color theory you might think it's an understatement to call the discovery of a new color a "happy accident," but that's exactly how Mas Subramanian is describing his serendipitous discovery of what is now called YInMn blue. Of course, the color blue has been around for some time, but this particular pigment is among the bluest ever created.