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This Week in the Future, March 14-19, 2010
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In this week's hottest new game, underground warbots search for a quantum kitty while avoiding land mines, collecting diamonds, and growing synthetic morphine.
Welcome to the future.
This week's future news:
- Most Flawless Diamonds Ever Are Meant for Lasers, Not Rings
- A Mechanical Device Behaves as a Quantum System Right Before Your Eyes
- Video Game Teaches Cambodian Kids to Avoid Real Landmines
- Scientists Identify Key Genetic Components for Morphine Synthesis
- An Autonomous 'Bot that Burrows Underground to Deliver Deadly Payloads
Meanwhile, leave a comment (any comment) to put your name in the pile to win this image on a T-shirt; we'll randomly choose and announce our winner right here. And, if you just can't wait that long, you can buy the shirt for yourself here.
Until next time, enjoy our past weekly illustrated roundups.
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Quantum Kitty, the hottest new kind of cat, never dies fully, and is smarter than most people on earth! It is also YELLOW AND BLUE! Side effects may include: getting a PH.D., developing new theories, and even DEATH (but that other part will still live!).
This is the best t-shirt I've ever seen
Go synthesis!
lol this is awesome.
from Pleasent Hill, CA
kool. cartoony
Oh no!
Quantum kitty got into the ball of quantum strings and now everything is all entangled!
Look, I'm in the cat food aisle, is the the thing dead or alive or what?
trihs
me
One of the best yet
Dig Dug
haha great shirt.
--GTO--
Oh my. I want this shirt lol
I loves a good T-shirt
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from Acton, Maine
This one is a good one.
Two game shirts in a row ... I bet there's a lot more comments on these than normal because we're all nerds.
:O buht, but why's the rum gone!?
here kitty kitty
I hafta win a shirt sometime, right?
What I go through for a T-Shirt....
ahh.. According to Ack-my-dinna-jacket the sub-surface machine is our "secret earth quake bomb"
Yarrg
too awesome!
pretty crazy
i want that shirt
Iz gotz to win, eventually! No?
yem nem nem
wow thats a great shirt very confusing at first glance
Since there are multiple Dig dugs, regular mechanics do not apply and therefore kitty can be saved from the radioactive trap only to be destroyed by landmines. I am sure that Tetris Russian building (sans taj majal peaks) are up to this sick puzzle. Everything is peaceful above ground says the flowers.
i fucking need thi shirt morew than anybody has ever need naything.
Love the Dig Dug. Has the winner been announced yet?
How am I JUST NOW finding out about TWITF?!?! I love it!
Also, I think I may have to name my next cat Schrodinger now...
the things I wouldn't do for a quantum kitty t-shirt !
- Kevin (www.ruedesjoueurs.com)
Cool. cartoony.Love the Dig Dug.This is the best t-shirt I've ever seen
:O
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dig dug dig dug LOL
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wow this very cool game.. :D
The cat looks great fun, I want one now.
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Very cool , I like it very much.
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Yeah cound me in too. Loved playing game on my C64 back in the good old days, well at least without the cat in it.
Regards,
Charles Potty
The cat looks great fun, I want one now.
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That's one very hot cat. And I love it. Has it got a name?
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No winner yet?
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