• Royal Wedding Air to be Sold in Bottles

    First came the stamps, then the Pez dispensers and now the royal wedding day bottled air. Yes, indeed, a company has come forth to bottle and sell the air from the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Watt UK says “trained professionals” will collect samples of the...
  • Melting gallium spoon trick provides expensive (but reusable) scientific entertainment

    Gallium does not exist elementally in nature, it has to be made. Part of the reason why you cannot just dig the stuff out of the ground is that it has an extremely low melting point (~86°F, 30°C). A hot sunny day reduce a piece of the stuff into...
  • My other car is a time machine [DeLorean key chain]

    It doesn’t really matter what you drive, thanks to the Back to the Future trilogy, no car will ever be as awesome as the DeLorean. Unfortunately, the car buying public didn’t realize this until it was too late and the DeLorean Motor Company never found much of a market...
  • Pass the Meat Water

    Remember that phony ad from The Simpsons that featured the phrase “the great taste of Worcestershire sauce in a soft drink”? It was ridiculous and funny to everyone who watched it, everyone except for Krautkraemer – the company that has brought us Meat Water. I don’t know why someone...
  • Mirror sticker will make you feel like a winner

    I’ve got this thing that I do to occupy myself during my mind numbing commute sometimes – I pick some random car that is slowly fighting its way through peak hour traffic… and I race it. My races don’t involve dangerous speeds or anything like that – just deft...
  • Aquanotes, Are you a shower thinker?

    Like many ideas, waterproof notepads seem like a good one initially. If you’re a driver, and you’ve ever gotten in an accident in the rain, you know how tricky it is, to jot down your co-accidentee’s information on a wet car trunk, with a wet pen, on a wet...
  • Amazon Sells Gastric Bypass Surgery Kits to Anyone with $300

    Why pay for costly gastric bypass surgery in hospital when you can get the tools delivered to your home? ...
  • The great taste of cinnamon buns now comes in a lip balm

    I like cinnamon buns, but I hate eating them in public – if there are no conveniently located sinks, there is an extended period of post-consumption stickiness that one must endure. For some people that is all part of the experience, for the rest of us, there is cinnamon...
  • Turn your fridge into a magnetic bamboo Mario world

    If you want to turn your fridge into a retro gaming art masterpiece, this is one way to do it. These laser-etched bamboo Super Mario magnet sets are the work of Travis Chen, also known as Aristomatic – who earns a crust programming and designing games for some pretty...