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A metal frame, dome and a lot of pink fabric make up Pink Heart Camp by John “Halcyon” Styn. The SF Bay Area Airpusher Collective dubbed their structure "The Airpusher." The Dome of Dough is made up of 850 loaves of bread. It's inspired by the Wildrose Canyon charcoal kilns in Death Valley, California. This giant duck is the brainchild of Isaiah Martin, David Shields and Tandy Nill. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More than 600 people climb Mount Everest every year, and not one of them could do it without an army of Sherpas, porters, and others guiding them every step of the way. Steve Brown celebrates these people in The Business of Everest . Some have climbed the world's tallest mountain a dozen times, risking their lives with every trek and getting little credit for it. “All the people who are so famous for climbing Everest are white western climbers,” Brown says. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When I met Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, earlier this year to talk about his new company, he showed me a PowerPoint deck from 2009. His team put it together just before the debut of the Motorola Droid, Android’s first real chance to take on the iPhone. The campaign slogan was “Droid Does,” and Motorola planned to harp on all the things the iPhone couldn’t do. It crowed about multitasking, “real keyboards,” and interchangeable batteries. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Having nearly run out of eye-­rolling Avengers conjoinings and bastardized reboots, Hollywood execs have landed on an even lazier way to sell movie tickets: 3-D releases of beloved classics. The latest victim of this desecration? Terminator 2 : Judgment Day . Twenty-six years since Arnold Schwarz­enegger launched his motorcycle off a culvert wall and into our hearts, the ultimate action flick is back in multiplexes, now promising three dimensions of taut Terminator flesh. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

I'd like to cut the cord. It sounds fun! I picture myself wielding cartoonishly large gardening shears, poised to sever the nearest coaxial cable. I rejoice in the thought of my newfound freedom, of sending my Charter Spectrum account to that great big cancellation form in the sky. And then, the very instant I allow myself to picture what life looks like after that figurative snip , my reverie comes crashing down. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The darkness came unexpectedly. One second my father was walking my 7-year-old brother and my 10-year-old self past a bodega in New York City; the next, a shadow descended. The noise of the city stopped. A taxi pulled up nearby and parked in the middle of the road. Feet clacked on the sidewalk once and fell silent. I gripped my brother’s hand and pulled him close. My dad turned around and stared at us, his fear confirming that something wasn’t right—and maybe even very wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Allow me to introduce you to "the bothie." It's not a selfie, nor a normal photo (which all the cool kids call a "youie" ), but a hybrid of the two. It's a composite shot from both cameras on your phone, showing both you and whatever else is out there. It's a bothie. Crazy idea? Maybe. And yet, if history is any indication, you'll scoff at the bothie now and then while you're not looking they will take over the world. Now, allow me to introduce you to The Bothie Phone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You probably don't have a landline phone, because it's not 1995. But you miss it sometimes, don't you? Knowing where the phone was all the time, having something anyone could pick up and use, avoiding the rock-paper-scissors over who has to waste their cell phone battery calling Dominos. Earlier this year at its developer conference , Google promised to turn its Home smart speaker into a sort of futuristic landline. Today, it's making good on that promise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ah, the late 1960s. LBJ occupied the White House. The Beatles ruled the charts. And Ford spent its summer vacations in France, settling a grudge with Ferrari by dominating the 24 Hours of Le Mans after the Italian outfit flaked on a deal to become part of the American automaker. Ford's GT40 won the legendary endurance race—over which Ferrari had long ruled—every year from 1966 to 1969. Half a century later, the Americans are still celebrating. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The "smart home" has not yet distinguished itself. Sure, you might dim your lights with an app; you might even talk to your large appliances. But despite years of promised ubiquity, the connected home has yet to cleave with mainstream reality. It's too expensive, too futzy, too filled with interoperability landmines. You know who can fix that? Ikea. In fact, it's already started to. Ikea's current smart home lineup is limited to a handful of lighting products. Nothing so special about that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices