Archive for Category: "Cool"
5 of the Most Bizarre Smartphone Accessories
Technology rears its ugly head or rather, its kooky head again. This time it isn’t a new iPad or iPhone. There’s a whole new gadget world that’s built up around all the latest technology according to smartphone reviews and mobile news websites. Bizarre items that are seemingly impractical are taking over technically clever souls, who [...]
Bo-Taoshi
Some Japanese sports are weird and are worthy of parody to us Americans, like Sumo wrestling and every activity on their game shows. These seem to get all the attention while a sport like Bo-Taoshi, an original and fresh take on Capture the Flag, gets no exposure in the western world. Bo-Tashi has all the [...]
16-bit Sweaters
“Bring me your nerdy, your nostalgic, your cold masses yearning to be stylishly warm.” Someone famous said that. Oscar Wilde, I believe. After being inspired by Mr. Wilde’s famous Retro Sweater Speech, we at the National Sweater Association believe this collection captured his dream. There were too many to post here, so go to www.widelec.pl [...]
Magic Milk
Milk, long-time boring beverage, has had to take crap from his cousin, hot chocolate, and juice for years. It has been deprived of the respect and status it deserves simply because nobody wants to drink unless it has chocolate in it. Milk saw this, manned up and said, “If I can’t win your taste buds, lend [...]
A Palace for your Poo
Welcome Numi, Kohler’s foray into the “You spent how much on your toilet?” game. While the Japanese Toto Neorest 600 has set the standard for pee pee pleasure, how will the Numi compare? The American contender will set you back $6,390 but adds a couple new features over the less expensive Neorest. Both clean themselves, neutralize odors, [...]
Tree Bridges
You know how people spend years at school to learn how to build bridges in America? Turns out a tribe in India has been building bridges with just trees for hundreds of years. All their bridges are made solely out of trees that only get stronger as they grow. Sure, it takes a dozen years [...]
Coffee Gripper
Graduate student John Amend, left, and associate professor Hod Lipson at Cornell are among the team that collaborated to create this robotic gripping device. The two main components of the gripper are a balloon and coffee grounds. That’s right, coffee grounds. Here’s a quick rundown of how it works: the caffeinated blob first “wraps” around [...]
Lord of the Legos
Who ever said you had to grow up? If you’re one of the lucky few to be in the Lego building team OneLUG, you can build elaborate LEGO structures and take them around the country for a living. This model of the Last March of the Ents in Isengard from contains 22,000 pieces and spans [...]
Sweet Sweet Brain Juice
Hone your brain suckling skills for the inevitable zombie apocalypse with this skull shot glass. Let’s face it, we’re not all going to be survivors, so those of you with weak immune systems better get practicing. The great thing this is you can still use the glass aside from pretending to be a zombie, but [...]
Pixar Tibute
Here’s another 25th anniversary piece. This Pixar clip montage spans the company’s 25 years of movie excellence since it was acquired by the late and great Steve Jobs in 1986. You’ll find everything from Toy Story to Cars 2 and all the shorts in between. If you manage to watch the whole thing without crying [...]
Portable Homeless Home
Portable Homeless Mobile Home Portable Homeless Shelter Facts The mobile homeless Home weighs about 235lbs. The roof acts as a rain catcher, collecting water for personal use. Designed by paul elkins, who also develops small scale vehicles. He previously designed the burning man bicycle camper The shelter includes a sleeping / resting area, a kitchen [...]
Will Google Flights Take Off or Crash and Burn?
Google Flights is ready to help you travel across the world by plane. How do other travel sites view this. Is Google Flights an actual viable competitor or just another attempt of Google at world domination that will end up in their failed ideas scrap pile? From Lifehacker.com Google just launched Google Flights Search, an [...]
Cost of Plastic Surgery or The Cool Stuff You Could Buy Instead [Infographic]
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A quick peek at how much plastic surgery really costs, and the things you could have bought, if you didn’t acquire that new body part. Infographic dealing with the high costs of cosmetic or plastic surgery. Via: Spa Beauty Schools Related articles Dumb TMZ Photo Captions (digitalbusstop.com) Top 10 Worst Celebrity Nose Jobs – Bad [...]
Awesome Steam Driven Inventions
Throughout the ages, man has attempted to improve his standard of living through technology. In the beginning there was the wheel and now we have iPads (amongst hundreds of other inventions). Though our history is long, the age of new technology is very short and it all really started with the rise of steam-powered machinery. [...]
Endless Fight. Go!
Giraffe’s battle for an endless fight, animated gif.Where’s a chiropractor when you need one? France vs. England for an eternal struggle. Will there ever be a winner? A Kenyan traffic cop and a truck driver in a fight that sure seems endless, and ridiculous. Nobody would even help the officer. Endless snowball fight gif. Endless [...]
Best Conan Movie Quote Ever! Lamentation Ripped Off?
I’m psyched to see the new Conan movie this weekend starring Jason Momoa. He was awesome as Khal Drogo, in Game of Thrones, and has the perfect look for Conan. Regardless of if the new movie is good or not, I’m sure in some ways it will never compare to the original Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan [...]
New Internet Meme – Lamenting Lemur Thoughtful Quotes
Internet Memes are usually annoying, sometimes funny and infrequently poignant. This new Internet Meme is a little of both and I’ll throw in a pinch of thoughtful wisdom to this meme recipe. What do you think? Does the Lamenting Lemur have what it takes to become the the stuff of meme legend? Death is Hereditary [...]
Greatest Sleuths of all Time
Whether it was Miss Scarlett in the dining room with a candlestick or Professor Plum with a dagger in the kitchen, there is nothing like a classic Whodunit to get your brain ticking. Piecing all the clues together and interviewing shrewd suspects is quite an art, however, some characters are simply brilliant at sniffing out [...]
The Energy of Terraforming
What Is Terraforming? Terraforming is a term first popularly coined by a science fiction novelist named Jack Williamson in his 1942 novel “Astounding Science Fiction.” The concept involves engineering the atmosphere and surface of a planet, or moon, so that life can exist in an otherwise uninhabitable environment. It is most famously depicted in the [...]
Rolling Through the Bay
Scott Weaver spent the last 35 years making this kinetic sculpture of San Francisco made entirely of toothpicks. The structure actually moves the ping pong balls you see at the bottom around in a “tour” of the city visiting famous locations along the way. More close-ups and video can be found at thisiscolossal.com.