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Did you know that the first time a moving sidewalk was proposed for New York City it was 1871? It was brought up again in 1902 for the Brooklyn Bridge, according to EphemeralNY, after which it was debated in the newspapers. Eventually Mayor Seth Low spiked the idea, forcing generations of pedestrians to use their own two [...]

In the town where I was born, lived a man who drank a lot of tea, and he told us of his life, in the land of tea-infusing submarines. [Monkey-Business via Swiss Miss] Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com.

Coins, odds and ends .. these things we expect to find under the sofa cushions, but these days color-changing LEDs seem to be just as common as pocket change. Taken to the extreme the idea becomes particularly fascinating: what if we simply built all of our lighting into the home furniture and furnishings around us [...]