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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Apple engineer re-creates 2,000-year-old Greek computer. With Legos.
(via The Raw Feed)
"An uber-egghead named Andrew Carol, who works as a software engineer at Apple, has
re-created the amazing Antikythera Mechanism using Legos
. Ancient Greeks created the device in 100 B.C. to predict astronomical events. This is incredible."
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