The Telectroscope was built by artist/inventor Paul St. George and connects New York and London via a massive tunnel you can look through and see out the other end.

“The Telectroscope started off as a totally unintentional hoax in the 1870s,” explains St George, who is the leading expert on this forgotten backwater of Victorian technology. “It came about through an error. A French editor misread a report about the invention of a thing called the Electroscope - which is all to do with static electricity - and called it a Telectroscope. He also misinterpreted its purpose. “The fascinating thing is that his misunderstanding of what it did - to communicate face to face over a vast distance - really caught fire.

Needless to say there is no such massive tunnel. The end portals were just made to look like they’re heading through the earth. In actuality, they’re connected via “fiber optic cabling, and an HD camera and projector on either end provide live streaming video. But who really cares, you can still look in one end of this device in New York and see out the other in London. You’ll find one end next to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the other across the pond, next to Tower Bridge.”

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Sure, Crocs are comfortable — but they’re also pretty awful-looking, at least in their normal form. The Crocs Santa Cruz ($50) break this mold by pairing the company’s super-comfy croslite footbed to a tough canvas upper, leaving you with a shoe that feels great on your feet and boasts a casual, laid back style that’s perfect for summer. For a variety of similar shoes click BELOW.

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St. Alfred, easily the illest street apparel brand and sneaker boutique out there. Here is the Spring/Summer ‘08 Collection by Chicago’s finest. With their in-store label they present a strong array of t-shirts this season, mostly playing around with the store name. The collection will be released tomorrow, May 24th, at both St. Alfred in Chicago and at Kicks/Hi locations in Hawaii. Get some!

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